Compact crossword - The Scotsman 04/10/12
ACROSS
1 Vital part of a car engine (10)
7 Chairman (8)
8 Fully developed (4)
9 Break into pieces (5)
10 Height (7)
12 Third degree (13)
15 Intensify (7)
17 Destroy (5)
20 A branch line (4)
21 Copies (8)
22 Laxity (10)
DOWN
1 Hang down (5)
2 Bill (7)
3 An eagle (4)
4 Ancestry (8)
5 Foremost (5)
6 Southern European city (6)
11 Self-determination (4-4)
13 Bleak prospect (2,4)
14 Landscape (7)
16 Blaspheme (5)
18 Greek island (5)
19 The side of a stage (4)
Wednesday’s solution
Across: 1 Top-heavy, 5 Mega, 9 Phone, 10 Athlete, 11 West Bromwich, 13 Albion, 14 Queens, 17 Eat humble-pie, 20 Rangers, 21 Ratel, 22 Park, 23 Drop-leaf.
Down: 1 Typo, 2 Proverb, 3 Electrocuted, 4 Viagra, 6 Elemi, 7 Amethyst, 8 “The Mousetrap”, 12 Name-drop, 15 Epistle, 16 Abuser, 18 Tenor, 19 Clef.