Compact crossword - The Scotsman
ACROSS
1 Alpine summer hut (6)
4 Expects confidently (6)
9 Ambushed (7)
10 Aviator (5)
11 Turning machine (5)
12 Eccentric person (7)
13 Built up (11)
18 A specious fallacy (7)
20 Girl’s name (5)
22 Takes notice (5)
23 Type of whale (7)
24 Corroded (6)
25 Stashed away (6)
DOWN
1 Mollusc (6)
2 Out of consideration (5)
3 Put into words (7)
5 Speedy (5)
6 Recovery operation (7)
7 Alight (6)
8 Postponement (11)
14 Fish-eating raptors (7)
15 Guilty party (7)
16 Old Testament book (6)
17 Tailed behind (6)
19 Publish (5)
21 Door-keeper (5)
Monday’s solution
Across: 8 Owl, 9 Exonerate, 10 Kaput, 11 Tussled, 12 Noblemen, 14 Thor, 15 Boot, 16 Reabsorb, 20 Candied, 21 Rebut, 23 Monomania, 24 Loo.
Down: 1 Bodkin, 2 Blip, 3 Beetle, 4 Bottle-feeding, 5 Beast, 6 Ballyhoo, 7 Bender, 13 Browning, 15 Become, 17 Burial, 18 Bathos, 19 Biome, 22 Bulk.