COMPACT CROSSWORD ONE

ACROSS

1 Household task (5) 7 Broth ingredient (5,3) 8 Savage (5) 10 Trail (5,6) 12 Wealth stored up (8) 14 A short news report (4) 16 Put away (4) 17 Pestered (8) 20 Story-tellers (10) 23 Greek philosopher (429-347 BC) (5) 24 Crashed (into) (8) 25 Mitigate (5)

DOWN

1 Prestige (6) 2 A chain of rocks (4) 3 Precious stone (4) 4 An adder (5) 5 Track athletes (9) 6 Haphazard (6) 9 Become void (5) 11 Patch things up (9) 13 Greek letter (3) 15 High-pitched (5) 16 Severe (6) 18 Bear witness (6) 19 Grotesque (5) 21 Smooth (4) 22 A thick slice of cake, etc (4)