Compact crossword - The Scotsman 17/07/15

Friday’s puzzle

ACROSS

1 Speedy (5)

7 Modified (8)

8 Leg joint (5)

10 Fielder (5,5)

12 Disfiguring (8)

14 Exuded (4)

16 Egyptian port (4)

17 Tempuras (anag) 8)

20 City in Hampshire (10)

23 Firearm (5)

24 Fluorescent light (4,4)

25 Unusually (5)

DOWN

1 Quivered (6)

2 Cabbage (4)

3 Mock (4)

4 Room (5)

5 Salesman (9)

6 Loved (6)

9 Precise (5)

11 Poatmeridian (9)

13 Short sleep (3)

15 Bullock (5)

16 Stitching (6)

18 Wretchedness (6)

19 Total (5)

21 Several (4)

22 Peel (4)

Thursday’s solution

Across: 7 Smut, 8 Loophole, 9 Brood, 10 Upgrade, 12 Spy, 13 Partridge, 16 Provident, 17 Ply, 19 Paucity, 21 Rigid, 23 Dotterel, 24 Lull.

Down 1 Improper, 2 Strop, 3 Sly, 4 Competent, 5 Chervil, 6 Glad, 11 Mandatory, 14 Gullible, 15 Evocate, 18 Field, 20 Avow, 22 Fly.