THE OBAN TIMES GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD

Across

1 Partner (6)

4 Perfect (4,2)

9 Protective facial hair (7)

10 Mature (5)

11 Elbow reinforcement (5)

12 Barricade (7)

13 Small start-up loan (11)

18 Silvery white metallic element (7)

20 Anything very small of its kind (5)

22 Poker or potato (5)

23 Wanting (7)

24 Joined by treaty (6)

25 Can be led this way (6)

Down

1 Treeless plain (6)

2 Blatant (5)

3 Cracker (7)

5 Church song (5)

6 Enormous force of water (7)

7 Nod (6)

8 Defect (11)

14 Bad feeling (3,4)

15 State (7)

16 One of the mimosa family (6)

17 Stage action on the edge (6)

19 Put forth (5)

21 Errand runner (5)