Compact crossword - The Scotsman 17/07/2012
ACROSS
7 Talk rapidly (6)
8 Very wicked (6)
9 An annoying child (4)
10 Cushy number (8)
11 Impairment (6)
12 Give a reading (6)
14 Bring together (6)
17 Wound (med) (6)
19 Squirms (8)
21 State emphatically (4)
22 A fish-eating raptor (6)
23 Dull-witted (6)
DOWN
1 Infertile (6)
2 Block (8)
3 Stand-offish (6)
4 English painter (1775-1851) (6)
5 Fashionable (4)
6 Dark-red colour (6)
13 Injured person (8)
15 Disturbance (6)
16 Rebroadcasts (6)
17 A European capital city (6)
18 Instrumentalist (6)
20 Attire (4)
Monday’s solution
Across: 1 Underfloor, 8 Heating, 9 Twice, 10 Sumo, 11 Quit, 12 Met, 14 Lodger, 15 Bitten, 18 Shy, 20 Ajar, 21 Once, 23 Okapi,
24 Rhombic, 25 Stony-broke. Down: 1 Unarmed, 2 Dais, 3 Ragout, 4 Let it rip, 5 Opium, 6 Whistle-stop, 7 Rest in peace,
13 Vexation, 16 Tenable, 17 Zagreb, 19 Yeast, 22 Solo.