Compact crossword - The Scotsman 05/09/15
ACROSS
7 Imprudent (3-10)
9 A round building (especially domed) (7)
10 Bequeath (5)
11 Necessity (4)
12 Boy’s name (5)
16 A high steep rock (5)
17 Thick string (4)
21 A unit of heat (5)
22 Duplicate (7)
23 Ancient (coll) (3,2,3,5)
DOWN
1 Full of energy (7)
2 Overpraise (7)
3 A straight (5)
4 Pastoral (7)
5 Deck out (5)
6 Snake (5)
8 Keeping others at arm’s length (5-6)
13 Stain (7)
14 Distinguished (7)
15 Unfavourable (7)
18 Hassock (5)
19 At hand (5)
20 Short-and-sweet (5)
Yesterday’s solution
Across: 1 Glide, 4 Stump, 10 Realm, 11 Hangman, 12 Chapbook, 13 Inge, 15 Fizzle, 17 Aurora, 19 X-ray, 20 Wide-eyed, 23 Neology, 24 Brawn, 25 Ester, 26 Kelso.
Down: 2 Llama, 3 Dumb-bell, 5 Tank, 6 Memento, 7 Price-fixing, 8 Oh boy, 9 Unrewarding, 14 Queen bee, 16 Zealous, 18 Vinyl, 21 Yeats, 22 Joke.