Compact crossword - The Scotsman 11/10/13

11/10/13

ACROSS

1 Opium flower (5)

7 Recent arrival (8)

8 Revive (5)

10 Married to more than one person (10)

12 Sudden plunge (8)

14 Machinegun (4)

16 Yap (4)

17 Not compulsory (8)

20 Texan city (3,7)

23 Inexpensive (5)

24 In good spirits (8)

25 Seashore (5)

DOWN

1 Individual (6)

2 Brief glance (4)

3 Extremely (4)

4 Discard (5)

5 Mattering much (9)

6 Gaol (6)

9 Long-winded (5)

11 Alienated (9)

13 3,5,1 down (1,1,1)

15 Of a city (5)

16 Halve (6)

18 Clinging gastropod (6)

19 Irate (5)

21 Musical work (4)

22 Buckeye State (4)

Thursday’s solution

Across: 7 Crop, 8 Leaflets, 9 Edith, 10 Disrobe, 12 Act, 13 Attention, 16 Esperanto, 17 All, 19 Radical, 21 Grave, 23 Purviews, 24 Chop.

Down: 1 Produces, 2 Spite, 3 Ale, 4 Manifesto, 5 Clarity, 6 Stub, 11 Stratagem, 14 Oblivion, 15 Believe, 18 Price, 20 Abut, 22 Ash.