Compact crossword - The Scotsman 30/12/14

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30/12/14

Tuesday’s puzzle

ACROSS

7 Bring to light (6)

8 Hostility (6)

9 Call it a day (coll) (4)

10 Setting fire to (8)

11 Impassive (6)

12 The green woodpecker (6)

14 Coagulate (6)

17 Dapper (6)

19 Discarded (8)

21 Enthusiastic (4)

22 Strength (6)

23 Room to manoeuvre (6)

DOWN

1 Display ostentatiously (6)

2 Scampered (8)

3 Fed (a boiler, etc) with fuel (6)

4 A quarrel (6)

5 Volition (4)

6 A little brook (6)

13 Incinerators (8)

15 Ragamuffin (6)

16 A specialist (6)

17 Encumber (6)

18 Culmination (6)

20 Succulent plant (4)

Monday’s solution - Grid C

Across: 1 Lip service, 8 Observe, 9 Lunge, 10 Moot, 11 Asia, 12 Oaf, 14 Even so, 15 Elysee, 18 Vet, 20 Earl, 21 V Rev, 23 Cubit, 24 Coeliac, 25 Tea service.

Down: 1 Lissome, 2 Port, 3 Ever so, 4 Valhalla, 5 Canto, 6 Room service, 7 Self-service, 13 Asbestos, 16 Service, 17 Tracer, 19 Table, 22 Levi.

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