Compact Crossword
ACROSS
7 Ballet-skirt (4)
8 Settle a debt (6,2)
9 Thick lump (5)
10 Strange (7)
12 Reduction (3)
13 Fivefold (9)
16 Former PM (9)
17 Flightless bird (3)
19 Give reluctantly (5,2)
21 Comical (5)
23 Hungarian capital (8)
24 Society (4)
DOWN
1 Secret (4-4)
2 Toothless (5)
3 Utilise (3)
4 Craftily (9)
5 Blunt (7)
6 Cougar (4)
11 Huts (9)
14 Reflecting light (8)
15 South American country (7)
18 Midday meal (5)
20 Burden (4)
22 North American Indian (3)
Tuesday's solution
Across: 1 Irritating, 8 Reforms,
9 Moved, 10 Inro, 11 Pure,
12 Sue, 14 Rueful, 15 Strict,
18 Tag, 20 Nero, 21 Spur,
23 Oread, 24 Fervour,
25 Perpetrate.
Down:
1 In force,
2 Rare,
3 Tissue, 4 Tempests, 5 Nevis,
6 Arbitration, 7 Adventurers,
13 Turned up, 16 Implore,