Compact crossword - The Scotsman 18/09/15


ACROSS
1 Mock (8)
5 Handle roughly (4)
9 First World War battle (5)
10 An epicure (7)
11 All over (4-3-2-3)
13 Character (6)
14 Place of worship (6)
17 Prescience (12)
20 Box of cutlery (7)
21 Heavy-handed (5)
22 Terrible fate (4)
23 Make more intense (8)
DOWN
1 Impetuous (4)
2 Fault (7)
3 Biscuit (5,7)
4 A shallow coastal body of water (7)
6 Concede (5)
7 Of late (8)
8 Exactly what is needed (4,3,5)
12 Intensified (8)
15 An enterprise (7)
16 A light cake (6)
18 Ballroom dance (5)
19 Knock out (4)
Grid G
Wednesday’s solution
Across: 1 Big brother, 7 Creditor, 8 Brig, 9 Itchy, 10 Bigwigs, 12 Big bang theory, 15 Bigbury, 17 Bight, 20 Clam, 21 Neophyte, 22 Big-hearted.
Down: 1 Beret, 2 Godthab, 3 Rite, 4 Turn into, 5 Elbow, 6 Bigger, 11 Entrench, 13 Icicle, 14 Epithet, 16 Bambi, 18 Hated, 19 Coda.