Compact crossword - The Scotsman 18/07/14
ACROSS
1 __ Street-Porter (5)
7 Month (8)
8 __ Piper, potato (5)
10 Part of a theatre (5-5)
12 She is crowned in spring (3,5)
14 Month (4)
16 Month (4)
17 Covered with cheese (2,6)
20 Seventh power of a million (10)
23 Interior furnishings (5)
24 Increased eightfold (8)
25 New (5)
DOWN
1 Knick-knack (6)
2 Charles Lamb’s penname (4)
3 Nought (4)
4 Rind (5)
5 Slingshots (9)
6 Simon’s home in
North Africa (NT) (6)
9 Jet (5)
11 Track for bikes (9)
13 Flightless Australian bird (3)
15 Sit on eggs (5)
16 William __, civil engineer (6)
18 Of the nerves (6)
19 Flimsy (5)
21 Welsh emblem (4)
22 ‘Finding __’, 2003 film (4)
Yesterday’s solutions
Across: 7 Scut, 8 Amethyst, 9 Query,
10 Consort, 12 Bad, 13 Boundless,
16 Petrified, 17 Cad, 19 Danders,
21 Pound, 23 Pasadena, 24 Rune.
Down: 1 Accurate, 2 Stork, 3 Fad,
4 Renounce, 5 Whistle, 6 Tsar,
11 Conforms, 14 Stagnant, 15 Gradual,
18 Sorry, 20 Alas, 22 Mad