COMPACT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 A railway engine (10) 8 Curing (7) 9 Overhead (5) 10 A fish of the cod family (4) 11 Flaccid (4) 12 Past (3) 14 A salad plant (6) 15 Pertain (to) (6) 18 An Indian state (3) 20 Deceive (4) 21 Roman emperor (54- 68) (4) 23 A synthetic fibre (5) 24 Disparage (3,4) 25 Lodges (10)

DOWN

1 Scholarly (7) 2 Cut off (4) 3 A black and white bird (6) 4 Walked over (8) 5 A stringed instrument (5) 6 Demanding (11) 7 One’s forte (6,5) 13 Corroboration (8) 16 Burdensome (7) 17 A Portuguese city (6) 19 Town in the Central Lowlands (5) 22 Responsibility (4)