Compact crossword - The Scotsman 14/12/2011

Wednesday’s puzzle...

Across

1 Restaurant selling beef (10)

7 Blue-tits (anag) (8)

8 Destruction (4)

9 Steak (1-4)

10 Resolute (7)

12 Steak (13)

15 Steak (7)

17 Deposit eggs (5)

20 Norse deity (4)

21 Brae (8)

22 Cut of beef or pork (10)

Down

1 Young pigeon (5)

2 Having died out (7)

3 Friends and acquaintances (4)

4 Adds new sound to a recording (8)

5 Thrum (5)

6 Filet __, cut of beef (6)

11 Extremely hungry (8)

13 Coiffure (6)

14 Paint applied thickly (7)

16 Sudden thrust (5)

18 Broaden (5)

19 Aspersion (4)

Tuesday’s solution

Across: 8 Hue, 9 Recounted, 10 Verge, 11 Average, 12 Listened, 14 Edit, 15 Scam, 16 Affluent, 10 Relieve, 21 Vogue, 23 Blockades, 24 Owl.

Down: 1 Shovel, 2 Jeer, 3 Greece, 4 Schadenfreude, 5 Luger, 6 Straddle, 7 Advent, 13 Scallion, 15 Scribe, 17 Lavish, 18 Treble, 19 Seeks, 22 Grog.

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