Compact Crossword

Today's Grid

By The Newsroom

Published 28th Feb 2019, 14:03 GMT

ACROSS

7 New to a job (13)

9 Applause (7)

10 Spring flower (5)

11 Irritate (4)

12 Pry (5)

16 Quarrel (5)

17 Withered (4)

21 Large Asian country (5)

22 Cover completely (7)

23 An annoying person (4,2,3,4)

DOWN

1 Grotesque (7)

2 Writing instruments (7)

3 Horrify (5)

4 Demolish (7)

5 Rebuke (5)

6 Skilled (5)

8 Evocative (of) (11)

13 East European country (7)

14 Answers (7)

15 Made to order (7)

18 Latitude (5)

19 Inflexible (5)

20 Climbing evergreen shrubs (5)

Friday's solution

Across: 1 Frost, 4 Skate, 10 Tempo, 11 Sand-eel, 12 Champion, 13 Otic, 15 Lagoon, 17 Kipper, 19 Blow, 20 Specific, 23 Capelin, 24 Angle, 25 Bream, 26 Adder.

Down: 2 Rumba, 3 Scorpion, 5 King, 6 Treetop, 7 Stickleback, 8 Ascot, 9 Electric eel, 14 Pilchard, 16 Grouper, 18 Spine, 21 Fugue, 22 Alga.