Compact crossword
ACROSS
1 Old Scottish county (10)
7 Brushed up (8)
8 Inflammation of the big toe (4)
9 Delight in (5)
10 Attribute (7)
12 Wading bird (6-7)
15 Head of a department in France, etc (7)
17 Head (coll) (5)
20 Fasten by anchor (4)
21 Annul (8)
22 Couriers (10)
DOWN
1 Boy's name (5)
2 Expel (4,3)
3 Begrudge (4)
4 One fond of women's company (5,3)
5 West African state (5)
6 Disarray (6)
11 Cherished (8)
13 Borders river (6)
14 Utter a low, deep laugh (7)
16 Compel (5)
18 Flexes (5)
19 Seabird (4)
Wednesday's solution
Across: 1 Cold wind, 5 Scam, 9 Virga, 10 Thermal, 11 High pressure, 13 Exhort, 14 Winter, 17 offshore wind, 20 Dogtrot, 21 V-neck, 22 Rhyl, 23 Ice storm.
Down: 1 Cove, 2 Largish, 3 Weather-chart, 4 Nature, 6 Cymru, 7 Mulberry, 8 Seismic waves, 12 Seconder, 15 Tangelo, 16 Arctic, 18 Foggy, 19 Skim.