Compact crossword - The Scotsman 04/10/12

Thursday’s puzzle...
By The Newsroom
Published 4th Oct 2012, 02:56 BST

ACROSS

1 Vital part of a car engine (10)

7 Chairman (8)

8 Fully developed (4)

9 Break into pieces (5)

10 Height (7)

12 Third degree (13)

15 Intensify (7)

17 Destroy (5)

20 A branch line (4)

21 Copies (8)

22 Laxity (10)

DOWN

1 Hang down (5)

2 Bill (7)

3 An eagle (4)

4 Ancestry (8)

5 Foremost (5)

6 Southern European city (6)

11 Self-determination (4-4)

13 Bleak prospect (2,4)

14 Landscape (7)

16 Blaspheme (5)

18 Greek island (5)

19 The side of a stage (4)

Wednesday’s solution

Across: 1 Top-heavy, 5 Mega, 9 Phone, 10 Athlete, 11 West Bromwich, 13 Albion, 14 Queens, 17 Eat humble-pie, 20 Rangers, 21 Ratel, 22 Park, 23 Drop-leaf.

Down: 1 Typo, 2 Proverb, 3 Electrocuted, 4 Viagra, 6 Elemi, 7 Amethyst, 8 “The Mousetrap”, 12 Name-drop, 15 Epistle, 16 Abuser, 18 Tenor, 19 Clef.