COMPACT CROSSWORD ONE
ACROSS
1 A sudden contraction (5) 4 A household task (5) 10 Bring on oneself (5) 11 Belated (7) 12 Disadvantage (8) 13 A chain of rocks (4) 15 Drained (6) 17 Nearer (6) 19 A Malay dagger (4) 20 Large snake (8) 23 A mobile home (US) (7) 24 A souvenir (5) 25 Trifling (5) 26 Employing (5)
DOWN
2 A type of nut (5) 3 Made violent efforts (8) 5 Take notice (of ) (4) 6 Buys back (7) 7 Over-excited (4,2,1,4) 8 Public house (coll) (5) 9 A piece of work (11) 14 Posters (8) 16 Confidential (7) 18 A trap (5) 21 A synthetic fibre (5) 22 Surfeit (4)