Compact Crossword - The Scotsman - 17/03/14
Here is Monday’s puzzle
ACROSS
8. Purpose (3)
9. Exhaustion (9)
10. Musical work (5)
11. Monstrosity (7)
12. Game-birds (8)
14. Made of money (4)
15. Pipe (4)
16. Try pitch (anag) (8)
20. Skating exhibition (3,4)
21. Broom (5)
23. Before birth (9)
24. Beard of barley (3)
DOWN
1. Thin (6)
2. Portent (4)
3. Informed hint (3-3)
4. Speak to (4,1,4,4)
5. Sea-duck (5)
6. Smaller number (8)
7. Entangle (6)
13. Opera text (8)
15. Country formerly Formosa (6)
17. Rounded stone (6)
18. Kind (6)
19. Sidetrack (5)
22. Counterfeit (4)