Compact crossword - The Scotsman 21/09/13

ACROSS

1 Edible seaweed (5)

4 Strait (5)

10 Easily understood (5)

11 Small city in Wyoming (7)

12 Close friend (8)

13 Sacred cow (4)

15 Show off (6)

17 Life-force (6)

19 Talk wildly (4)

20 Large Japanese city (8)

23 Rapture (7)

24 Fashion (5)

25 Seize (a throne, etc) (5)

26 Brightness (5)

DOWN

2 Not abridged (5)

3 Dregs (8)

5 Not matched (4)

6 Itinerant (7)

7 Ignorant (3-8)

8 Fools (5)

9 Obedient (4-7)

14 Betrothal (8)

16 Counsels (7)

18 Welsh county (5)

21 Bottomless pit (5)

22 Impartial (4)

Friday’s solution

Across: 7 Bag and baggage, 9 Calypso, 10 Offer, 11 Rise, 12 Shine, 16 There, 17 Then, 21 Limit, 22 Oregano, 23 High and mighty.

Down: 1 Obscure, 2 Ageless, 3 Snipe, 4 Aground, 5 Gaffe, 6 Heart, 8 Brotherhood, 13 Chateau, 14 Sheathe, 15 Antonym, 18 Alpha, 19 Omega, 20 Begin.