Compact crossword - The Scotsman 09/04/15

ACROSS

1 Sympathy (10)

7 Burdensome (7)

8 Trajectory (5)

10 A fool (coll) (4)

11 Kiss (8)

13 Lead astray (6)

15 Certainly (6)

17 An Indian rice dish (8)

18 And other things (2,2)

21 Confrontation (3-2)

22 Have too much food (7)

23 Dealer’s premises (4-3-3)

DOWN

1 Tiresome person (5)

2 An inert gas (4)

3 Be uppermost in one’s thoughts (6)

4 Articulate (8)

5 Vegetable (7)

6 Bird (10)

9 A surveying instrument (10)

12 Showed a film, etc (8)

14 News (7)

16 A felt hat (6)

19 Negotiate (5)

20 Experience (4)

Solution

Across: 7 Pair, 8 Linoleum, 9 Paris, 10 Emotion, 12 Any, 13 Quasimodo, 16 White City, 17 Wry, 19 Adverbs, 21 Jolly, 23 Implicit, 24 Rick.

Down: 1 Savannah, 2 Fruit, 3 Fly, 4 Animosity, 5 Old-time, 6 Hugo, 11 Hunchback, 14 Derelict, 15 Steeple, 18 Notre, 20 Dame, 22 Sty.