Compact Crossword - The Scotsman 19/10/13

Saturday’s puzzle...

Across

1 A brown pigment (5)

4 Small fish (5)

10 Rascal (5)

11 Superintend (7)

12 Womaniser (8)

13 Soft wood (4)

15 Rip off (coll) (6)

17 Up-to-date (6)

19 Fury (4)

20 Suffocates (8)

23 Concept (7)

24 Indoctrinate (5)

25 Door-keeper (5)

26 Drug addicts (5)

DOWN

2 Power (5)

3 Refinement (8)

5 Wharf (4)

6 Grave (7)

7 Multiply (11)

8 Area of study (5)

9 Stocked up again (11)

14 Includes (8)

16 Absorb (7)

18 Strike hard (5)

21 Piece of live coal, etc (5)

22 Monster (4)

Friday’s solution

Across: 7 Overabundance,

9 Notelet, 10 Caper, 11 Rare,

12 Earth, 16 Strip, 17 Asia,

21 Minor, 22 Lambast,

23 Unspectacular.

Down: 1 Country, 2 Western,

3 Fable, 4 Educate, 5 Snipe,

6 Ferry, 8 Ultraviolet, 13 Starlet, 14 Assault, 15 Battery, 18 Amour, 19 Anise, 20 Smack.