COMPACT CROSSWORD ONE

ACROSS

7 Baby’s cot (4) 8 An opening (8) 9 A ne’er-do-well (5) 10 Tackle (7) 12 Uncooked (3) 13 Involved in wrongdoing (9) 16 Summarising (9) 17 A clawed foot (3) 19 Admits to holy orders (7) 21 Polite (5) 23 Large snake (8) 24 A vegetable (4)

DOWN

1 Cut short (8) 2 At a higher level (5) 3 A conical hill (3) 4 Absconding (9) 5 Implement (7) 6 Part of the eye (4) 11 Element (9) 14 Conceived (8) 15 Remainder (7) 18 A passageway (5) 20 Foul (4) 22 A proverb (3)