Compact crossword - The Scotsman 17/05/2012

ACROSS

1 Singers (10)

7 Sends on (8)

8 Concoction (4)

9 Underneath (5)

10 Spread (7)

12 Donations (13)

15 Written law (7)

17 Spindrift (5)

20 Cathedral dignitary (4)

21 Exonerating (8)

22 Compatible (10)

DOWN

1 Household task (5)

2 Welsh city (7)

3 Unusual (4)

4 Delightful (8)

5 Trajectory (5)

6 Streamer (6)

11 Misery (8)

13 Beginning (6)

14 Deadlock (7)

16 Latin American dance (5)

18 French painter (1832-83) (5)

19 Performs (4)

Wednesday’s solution

Across: 1 Carapace, 5 Scup, 9 Basis, 10 Laminar, 11 Arithmetical, 13 Remove, 14 Unsafe, 17 Division sign, 20 Eclogue, 21 Ember,

22 Tied, 23 Haystack. Down: 1 Cube, 2 Rostrum, 3 Positive sign, 4 Column, 6 Conic, 7 Parallel, 8 Empty-nesters, 12 Gradient,

15 Algebra, 16 Bodega, 18 Value, 19 Trek.