Compact crossword - The Scotsman 23/04/2012

Monday’s puzzle...

ACROSS

1 Temperature scale (10)

8 Energy unit in food (7)

9 Poison (5)

10 ____ Morecambe (4)

11 S-shaped curve (4)

12 Sin (3)

14 Share the lead (2-4)

15 Seized (6)

18 Photograph (coll) (3)

20 Stockings (4)

21 Leave out (4)

23 Countrified (5)

24 Century (7)

25 Artificial sweetener (10)

DOWN

1 Temperature scale (7)

2 Average (4)

3 Glacial Period (3,3)

4 Town on Isle of Bute (8)

5 Camp-kettle (5)

6 Centre for industrial research (7,4)

7 Unthankfulness (11)

13 Universal (8)

16 Up a _______ (7)

17 Respiratory disorder (6)

19 Around (5)

22 Against (4)

Saturday’s solution

Across: 7 Fall from grace, 9 Antwerp, 10 Lurch, 11 Leek, 12 Orate, 16 Stout, 17 Silo, 21 Cater, 22 Inexact, 23 Revolutionise.

Down: 1 Affable, 2 Flatten, 3 After, 4 Agility, 5 Cadre, 6 Lethe, 8 Opportunist, 13 Sterile, 14 Titanic, 15 Bootleg, 18 Score, 19 Stave, 20 Helot.