Compact crossword - The Scotsman 16/07/15
Thursday’s puzzle
ACROSS
7 Soot (4)
8 An escape clause (8)
9 Mull over (5)
10 Enhance (7)
12 A secret agent (3)
13 Game-bird (9)
16 Frugal (9)
17 Work steadily (3)
19 Sparseness (7)
21 Unbending (5)
23 A kind of plover (8)
24 Hiatus (4)
DOWN
1 Unseemly (8)
2 Sharpen (5)
3 Cunning (3)
4 Proficient (9)
5 A pot-herb (7)
6 Pleased (4)
11 Compulsory (9)
14 Easily deceived (8)
15 Call up (from the dead) (7)
18 Pitch (5)
20 Maintain (4)
22 Take to the air (3)
Wednesday’s solution
Across: 1 Danish blue, 7 Racquet, 8 Incur, 10 Neat, 11 Buzzword, 13 Enjoin, 15 Friend, 17 Exposure, 18 Ugli, 21 Later, 22 Ikebana, 23 Crown green.
Down: 1 Dacha, 2 Nous, 3 Set out, 4 Blizzard, 5 Up close, 6 Orange peel, 9 Red admiral, 12 Airscrew, 14 Jupiter, 16 Trying, 19 Grain, 20 Mere.