Compact Crossword - The Scotsman 03/09/14

Across

1 Disconnect (8)

5 Section (4)

9 Consume (3,2)

10 Mundane (anag) (7)

11 Easy to understand (4-8)

13 Stinging plant (6)

14 Decorative plasterwork (6)

17 Impartial (12)

20 Person with light-coloured hair (3-4)

21 Tartan trousers (5)

22 Police spy (4)

23 Still unpublished (8)

DOWN

1 Aurochs (4)

2 Iron basket (7)

3 Having no equal (12)

4 Paris art gallery (6)

6 Wanderer (5)

7 Unruly youth of 1950s (5,3)

8 Accessible to all (12)

12 Undo clothing (8)

15 Merciful (7)

16 Unexpected (6)

18 Force (5)

19 Utilised (4)

COMPACT CROSSWORD

Across: 1 Get off, 4 Thomas, 9 Enlarge, 10 Place, 11 Canoe, 12 Through, 13 Partitioned, 18 Current, 20 Farce, 22 Loped, 23 Omnibus, 24 Desert, 25 Lesson.

Down: 1 Greece, 2 Talon, 3 Forfeit, 5 Hyper, 6 Measure, 7 Seethe, 8 Restitution, 14 Apropos, 15 Offence, 16 Scaled, 17 Reason, 19 Elder, 21 Rebus.