Compact crossword - The Scotsman 12/10/12

Friday’s puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Purple (5)

7 City in California (5,3)

8 South African village (5)

10 Food--poisoning (10)

12 Eye disease (8)

14 Sea-mist (4)

16 Swedish car (4)

17 Unique person (4,4)

20 Small town in SE Lincolnshire (4,6)

23 Nigerian currency (5)

24 Really (8)

25 Wrath (5)

DOWN

1 Manufacturing (6)

2 Chaminda __, Sri Lankan cricketer (4)

3 Form of address to female royalty (4)

4 Pong (5)

5 Round disc controlling water flow (4,5)

6 Fete (6)

9 Door-fastening (5)

11 One from Israelites’ Promised Land (9)

13 Bleat of a goat (3)

15 Moses’s brother (5)

16 Salutation (6)

18 A raise (anag) (3-3)

19 Esau’s father (5)

21 High (4)

22 Slightly leavened bread (4)

Thursday’s solution

Across: 7 Coop, 8 Position, 9 Knoll, 10 Alleged, 12 Aft, 13 Transport, 16 Motorcade, 17 Act, 19 Limpopo, 21 Prove, 22 Dictator, 24 Sore.

Down: 1 To-and-fro, 2 Spill, 3 Apt, 4 Esplanade, 5 Attempt, 6 Bole, 11 Crackpots, 14 Recovers, 15 Compete, 18 Crust, 20 Iris, 22 Art.

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