Compact crossword - The Scotsman 12/10/12
ACROSS
1 Purple (5)
7 City in California (5,3)
8 South African village (5)
10 Food--poisoning (10)
12 Eye disease (8)
14 Sea-mist (4)
16 Swedish car (4)
17 Unique person (4,4)
20 Small town in SE Lincolnshire (4,6)
23 Nigerian currency (5)
24 Really (8)
25 Wrath (5)
DOWN
1 Manufacturing (6)
2 Chaminda __, Sri Lankan cricketer (4)
3 Form of address to female royalty (4)
4 Pong (5)
5 Round disc controlling water flow (4,5)
6 Fete (6)
9 Door-fastening (5)
11 One from Israelites’ Promised Land (9)
13 Bleat of a goat (3)
15 Moses’s brother (5)
16 Salutation (6)
18 A raise (anag) (3-3)
19 Esau’s father (5)
21 High (4)
22 Slightly leavened bread (4)
Thursday’s solution
Across: 7 Coop, 8 Position, 9 Knoll, 10 Alleged, 12 Aft, 13 Transport, 16 Motorcade, 17 Act, 19 Limpopo, 21 Prove, 22 Dictator, 24 Sore.
Down: 1 To-and-fro, 2 Spill, 3 Apt, 4 Esplanade, 5 Attempt, 6 Bole, 11 Crackpots, 14 Recovers, 15 Compete, 18 Crust, 20 Iris, 22 Art.