Compact crossword - The Scotsman 11/07/2012

Wednesday’s solution...

ACROSS

1 Habit (8)

5 And (4)

9 Manufactures (5)

10 Faultless (7)

11 Scholar (3,2,7)

13 Modernise (6)

14 Icy (6)

17 It brings passenger back to starting-point (6,6)

20 In name only (7)

21 Holy table (5)

22 Missing (4)

23 Land (8)

DOWN

1 Cougar (4)

2 Ungainly (7)

3 Male sex hormone (12)

4 Foundry furnace (6)

6 Loyal subject (5)

7 Steadies (anag) (3,5)

8 Scrivener’s palsy (7,5)

12 One of the hills of Rome (8)

15 Larger (7)

16 Less fresh (6)

18 Occasions (5)

19 Victim (4)

Tuesday’s solution

Across: 1 Plumbs, 4 Fathom, 9 Supremo, 10 Heels, 11 Larch, 12 Turmoil, 13 Sierra Leone, 18 Collect, 20 Id est, 22 Iliad,

23 Omicron, 34 Millet, 25 Mettle. Down: 1 Pestle, 2 Upper, 3 Blether, 5 Abhor, 6 Hoedown, 7 Muscle, 8 Contraption, 14 Ill will,

15 Edifice, 16 Schism, 17 Stance, 19 Undue, 21 Egret.