Compact crossword - The Scotsman - 13/03/14
Thurday’s puzzle...
ACROSS
1 Allocate (10)
7 Singer (7)
8 Steals (coll) (5)
9 Speech defect (4)
11 Strange (8)
13 Never again (2,4)
15 Bear witness (6)
17 Signifying (8)
18 Newts (4)
21 Reel (5)
22 Gauge (7)
23 Absorbing (10)
DOWN
1 Fall guys (5)
2 Criticise (coll) (4)
3 Entrenched (6)
4 Feasts (8)
5 Tangible (7)
6 Promenades (10)
9 Highland dance (10)
12 Chatterbox (8)
14 Rainy season (7)
16 Hostility (6)
19 Threw (5)
20 Island of Indonesia (4)
Wednesday’s solution
Across: 7 Oran, 8 Off-and-on, 9 Ogled, 10 Ottoman, 12 One, 13 Obsession, 16 Old Bailey, 17 OTT, 19 Ooze out, 21 On-off, 23 Outvalue, 24 Oust.
Down: 1 Original, 2 Onset, 3 Ooh, 4 Off-the-peg, 5 On toast, 6 Oona, 11 Obliquely, 14 Out of use, 15 Observe, 18 On top, 20 Ovum, 22 O’er.