Compact crossword - The Scotsman 24/05/2013

Friday’s puzzle...
By The Newsroom
Published 24th May 2013, 01:00 BST

ACROSS

1 Revolution (5)

7 Gamete (4,4)

8 Torso (5)

10 Commonsense (4,6)

12 Expecting (8)

14 Droop (4)

16 Red gem (4)

17 Porous (8)

20 Producing living young (10)

23 Tooth (5)

24 Backbone joint (8)

25 Oxygenating fluid (5)

DOWN

1 Sauce (alt spelling) (6)

2 Breathing organ (4)

3 Tax (4)

4 Smudge (5)

5 Chamber of the heart (9)

6 Small flower (6)

9 Currency unit of Denmark and Norway (5)

11 Grass-eating animal (9)

13 No (3)

15 Part of the small intestine (5)

16 Bring back to life (6)

18 Bellowed (6)

19 Higher (5)

21 __-__ skirt (2-2)

22 Spirit (4)

Thursday’s solution

Across: 7 Ibex, 8 Unerring, 9 Folly, 10 Bracken, 12 Jut, 13 Excursion, 16 Decorated, 17 Rut,

19 Offbeat, 21 Fleet, 23 Rousseau, 24 Rack. Down: 1 Absolute, 2 Exile, 3 Hut, 4 Defrauded,

5 Precise, 6 Once, 11 Excavated, 14 Opulence, 15 Bombast, 18 Clare, 20 Flog, 23 Cut.