Compact crossword - The Scotsman 19/03/2012

Monday’s puzzle...
By The Newsroom
Published 19th Mar 2012, 04:09 BST

ACROSS

8 Exploit (3)

9 Senior clergyman (5,4)

10 Russian ballet company (5)

11 Capital of Kenya (7)

12 Cake decoration (8)

14 Smack (4)

15 Group (4)

16 Table-tennis (4-4)

20 Affirmed (7)

21 Leg of lamb or mutton (5)

23 Northern sea-duck (6-3)

24 Command to speed up (3)

DOWN

1 Nepalese soldier (6)

2 Equipment (4)

3 Small stones (6)

4 Younger relatives (13)

5 Albumen (5)

6 War cry used by paratroopers (8)

7 Metamorphic rock (6)

13 With extreme wariness (8)

15 Nagger (anag) (6)

17 Silenced (6)

18 Rainwater channel (6)

19 Avarice (5)

22 In senile dotage (4)

Saturday’s solution

Across: 1 Stiff, 7 Relegate, 8 Flood, 10 Persistent, 12 Recovers, 14 Mute, 16 Iota, 17 Impaired, 20 Greyhounds, 23 Yearn, 24 Ideology, 25 Kenya. Down: 1 Suffer, 2 Flop, 3 Tess, 4 Cease, 5 Safeguard, 6 Centre, 9 Delve, 11 Scattered, 13 Rim, 15 Hardy, 16 Ingrid, 18 Duenna, 19 Shale, 21 Urge, 22 Sere.