Compact crossword - The Scotsman 11/07/14
ACROSS
1 Voting agent (5)
4 Cry of a duck (5)
10 Purchaser (5)
11 Member of Protestant church (coll) (3,4)
12 Carbon _ (8)
13 Bark (4)
15 Nine days of devotion (6)
17 Ox-bird (6)
19 Small (4)
20 Cold ocean current (8)
23 Defensive mistake (3,4)
24 Cover (5)
25 Dowdy woman (5)
26 NE African country (5)
DOWN
2 Imitation silk (5)
3 Photocopying (8)
5 Accustomed (4)
6 Of part of the eye (7)
7 Extreme aversion (11)
8 Root vegetable (5)
9 Stock (4,2,5)
14 Mixing up (8)
16 Wine merchant (7)
18 Cricket fielding position (5)
21 Illuminated (3,2)
22 Camera lens (4)
Thursday’s solution
Across: 1 Greenhouse, 17 Falls out, 8 Oxen, 9 Serve, 10 Differs, 12 Down to the wire, 15 Clearly, 17 Annoy, 20 Inch, 21 Trapezes, 22 Crystal set.
Down: 1 Grate, 2 Enliven, 3 Nook, 4 Outright, 5 Scoff, 6 Bearer, 11 Pollutes, 13 Oblong, 14 Wanders, 16 Abhor, 18 Overt, 19 Data.