Compact crossword - The Scotsman 26/06/15

By The Newsroom
Published 26th Jun 2015, 03:12 BST
Friday’s puzzle

ACROSS

7 Bride’s flowers (6,7)

9 German name for Wroclaw, Polish city (7)

10 Purple (5)

11 Ceremonial act (4)

12 Diminish (5)

16 Ice-house (5)

17 Counterpart (4)

21 Testify (5)

22 Crane (7)

23 Indian tree (3,10)

DOWN

1 Hit repeatedly (7)

2 Magnate (anag) (7)

3 Nimble (5)

4 Reduce sentence (7)

5 Progeny (5)

6 Cautionary light (5)

8 Of aristocratic descent (4-7)

13 Intellectual (7)

14 Furry-skinned fruit (7)

15 Hat rosette (7)

18 Piano-key (5)

19 Reddish (5)

20 Shrimp-like creatures (5)

Thursday’s solution

Grid A

Across: 1 Incomers, 5 Amid, 9 Stand, 10 Storage, 11 Implementing, 13 Throws, 14 Domain, 17 Predicaments, 29 Catches, 21 Alike, 22 Leek, 23 Idolised.

Down: 1 Inst, 2 Crammer, 3 Middleweight, 4 Resume, 6 Miami, 7 Dredging, 8 Go into detail, 12 Atypical, 15 Attains, 16 Lapsed, 18 Ettle, 19 Heed.