Compact crossword - The Scotsman 24/12/14

ACROSS

1 Small lemur (8)

5 Mormon state (4)

9 8th Greek letter (5)

10 Irregularity (7)

11 It is decorated with candles (8-4)

13 Continual stream of people (6)

14 Dry plain (6)

17 It has one’s name and job title on it (8,4)

20 Isaac’s wife (OT) (7)

21 Architectural style (5)

22 Compassion (4)

23 Rice dish (8)

DOWN

1 Tub (4)

2 Chief officer (7)

3 Place used for smelting (5,7)

4 Cognac (6)

6 Headdress (5)

7 Pollenosis (3,5)

8 One-piece, skin-tight garment (4,8)

12 Loosen the muscles (6,2)

15 Associate (7)

16 Landed property (6)

18 Wooden shoe (5)

19 Apex (4)

Tuesday’s solution

Across: 1 Grease, 4 Gallop, 9 Mediate, 10 Stall, 11 Ideal, 12 Trebles, 13 Contaminate, 18 Lives on, 20 Taste, 22 Erode, 23 Averred, 24 Tossed, 25 Verger.

Down: 1 Gambit, 2 Endue, 3 Scarlet, 5 Aisle, 6 Leaflet, 7 Polish, 8 Sentimental, 14 Obvious, 15 Not here, 16 Fluent, 17 Tender, 19 Scene, 21 Sprig.