COMPACT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Champion (4)

8 Countermand (8)

9 A girl’s name (5)

10 Scruffy (7)

12 The legal code (3)

13 Fabrication (9)

16 Recanted (9)

17 Not refined (3)

19 Loathing (7)

21 An Army officer (5)

23 A hard Italian cheese (8)

24 Turn over (4) DOWN

1 Capital city in southern Europe (8)

2 An arbour (5)

3 Depressed (3)

4 US state (9)

5 Dutch city (7)

6 A rigid support (4)

11 Acerbic (9)

14 A musical composition (8)

15 Coerce (7)

18 A blunder (5)

20 The holly genus (4)

22 Cut down (grass, etc) (3)