Compact crossword - The Scotsman

Tuesday’s puzzle...
By The Newsroom
Published 1st Nov 2011, 00:00 BST

ACROSS

1 Alpine summer hut (6)

4 Expects confidently (6)

9 Ambushed (7)

10 Aviator (5)

11 Turning machine (5)

12 Eccentric person (7)

13 Built up (11)

18 A specious fallacy (7)

20 Girl’s name (5)

22 Takes notice (5)

23 Type of whale (7)

24 Corroded (6)

25 Stashed away (6)

DOWN

1 Mollusc (6)

2 Out of consideration (5)

3 Put into words (7)

5 Speedy (5)

6 Recovery operation (7)

7 Alight (6)

8 Postponement (11)

14 Fish-eating raptors (7)

15 Guilty party (7)

16 Old Testament book (6)

17 Tailed behind (6)

19 Publish (5)

21 Door-keeper (5)

Monday’s solution

Across: 8 Owl, 9 Exonerate, 10 Kaput, 11 Tussled, 12 Noblemen, 14 Thor, 15 Boot, 16 Reabsorb, 20 Candied, 21 Rebut, 23 Monomania, 24 Loo.

Down: 1 Bodkin, 2 Blip, 3 Beetle, 4 Bottle-feeding, 5 Beast, 6 Ballyhoo, 7 Bender, 13 Browning, 15 Become, 17 Burial, 18 Bathos, 19 Biome, 22 Bulk.