Compact crossword - The Scotsman 23/02/2012

Thursday’s puzzle...

Across

1 Person (coll) (10)

7 Serious loss of cognitive ability (8)

8 Draw (4)

9 Platform (5)

10 Seizes (coll) (7)

12 Established forms of government (13)

15 Unfamiliar (7)

17 Facilitates (5)

20 Criminal band (4)

21 Worried (coll) (8)

22 Couriers (10)

Down

1 Unfit (5)

2 Deepens a river, harbour, etc (7)

3 Ballot (4)

4 Verbal exchange (8)

5 Horrify (5)

6 Old coin (6)

11 Line drawings (8)

13 Bandit (6)

14 List in detail (7)

16 Point of view (5)

18 Push with force (5)

19 Satellite (4)

Wednesday’s solution:

Across: 1 Circular, 5 Crag, 9 Class, 10 Coerced, 11 Christchurch, 13 Ceding, 14 Compel, 17 Arctic Circle, 20 Incline,

21 Tacky, 22 Acid, 23 Beechnut.

Down: 1 Cock, 2 Reached, 3 Unscientific, 4 Alcott, 6 Racer, 7 Godchild, 8 Technocratic, 12 Sciatica, 15 Pelican, 16 Scheme, 18 Cacti, 19 Cyst.