Weekend Crossword 29/12/12

This weekend’s puzzle...
By The Newsroom
Published 29th Dec 2012, 13:55 BST

Across

1. Occasional (8)

5. Period (4)

9. Deficit (4)

10. Diverse (8)

11. Hurry (5)

12. Trace (7)

13. Equipment (13)

18. Contemplate (8)

19. Detail (4)

20. Scholar (7)

21. Fen (5)

22. Act (4)

23. Musical work (8)

Down

2. Commonplace (7)

3. Rice dish (7)

4. Unintentionally (13)

6. Eating away (7)

7. Lunacy (7)

8. Supple (6)

13. Indicted (7)

14. Confound (7)

15. Together (6)

16. Inscription (7)

17. Disloyalty (7)

Last week’s solution

Across: 1 Dusk; 3 Dissuade; 9 Feather; 10 Cover; 11 Entertaining; 13 Enrapt; 15 Stress; 17 Student nurse; 20 Press; 21 Ringlet; 22 Set aside; 23 Prod.

Down: 1 Differed; 2 Start; 4 Inroad; 5 Second to none; 6 Advance; 7 Earn; 8 Chiropodists; 12 Assented; 14 Retreat; 16 Snared; 18 Ruler; 19 Opus.