The Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,620 – Sep 20 2018

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Clues	Answers
Balloonist, say, in bar with tipsy aunt	AERONAUT
Blunder into setter’s jolly	MERRY
Boozer allowed yard plugs?	PUBLICITY
Boss finding return of whistle-blower something tiresome	GAFFER
Boxer might take this drink, sitting next to bar	COUNTERPUNCH
Calm after suffering a terrible bump	IMPERTURBABLE
Cooler sounding Scot in musical mode	PHRYGIAN
Drink with setter — a depressing experience	SUNDOWNER
Drinks with English guy	TEASE
Driver reversed right over cat? It’s messy	MOTORIST
Female, old, with bad back	OLIVE
Final authority is Mum?	SAYSO
Japanese screen shop Jim closed early	SHOJI
Joel’s peers are surprised he imports porn	MINORPROPHETS
Minister initially supporting Tory party member’s cover-up?	CONDOM
Nostalgic setter’s one into wine	HOMESICK
Old Morris sales rep?	TRAVELLER
Pale flame around national emblem	MAPLELEAF
Recommending power gets put into a small boat	ADVISORY
Remain a year in county, returning after time away	STAYON
Remove gathering in part of collar with a low neckline	DECOLLETE
Rough area in bay, perhaps	HOARSE
Say The Lion King’s last century acting, in part	BIGCAT
Small map of Spain in this month’s brief	INSET
Spot crown jewels kings have left for display	SPECTACLE
The first cold before March is over in permanently cold area	ICECAP
Traps fish in cold drink	GINSLING
Very small margin showing musical’s range	HAIRSBREADTH

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,619 – Sep 19 2018

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Bean soup, nothing less, for seconds?	RUNNERSUP
Complex in Naples welcoming university in Calabria, say?	PENINSULA
Dull gospeller to his familiars?	MATT
Fix round vessel for cake	PARKIN
Following closely, a lot on site for development	NOSETOTAIL
Humourless dandy recalled getting beaten by racketeer	POFACED
Illicitly, a romance being filmed	ONCAMERA
Kind that’s legally able to score in the box	CONSIDERATE
Lake where a bore recedes	GARDA
Lift near the ground	HEARTEN
Material sensed	FELT
Maverick offering drinks on the house?	FREE
Maybe Celtic sofa initially like a bed?	SCOTTISH
Note: I appreciate that award for a city on the Bay of Bengal	CHITTAGONG
Performance killing act	EXECUTION
Raise your voice about staff making errors	SCREWINGUP
Relationships entered into by male artist with desire to eat after smoking a joint	THEMUNCHIES
Repeating time after time after time, I love breaking in	ITERATION
See 6	SPIRIT
Shoe, shocking pink, that is for a dish	PUMPKINPIE
Shoot gun if really pressurised, snipers all heading northward	SPRIG
Shutting up gutless egotist is immense, as lippy perhaps?	COSMETIC
Soldiers one threat	MENACE
Stand in river maintaining exercise, upright	DEPUTISE
Star in Canis Minor goes round	PINUP
Take off underclothing, finding impurities	DOPANTS
Tube ending in passage alongside canary, say, in mine	PIPETTE
Two months to boil down	DECOCT
Under discussion, heart unit	CORPS
What melts?	THAW

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,618 – Sep 18 2018

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A race of tossers?	PANCAKE
Avoiding alcohol, French priest to preserve by adding salt	DRYCURE
Band that holds cut flowers	OASIS
Best friend thus rendered incapable of dropping litter?	SPAYED
Crazy picosecond of peering into people	ENDOSCOPIC
Criminally assist operatic website, masking fingerprint	AIDANDABET
Describe where prepared food is eaten after cooking	DELINEATE
Gets value intermittently for cheated brother	ESAU
He may have to fight racism, even in disguise	SERVICEMAN
Henry had six weeks, not even taking four	WIVES
Keep handling fruit	PAWPAW
Make fewer pronouncements, being displaced	STATELESS
MP, perhaps, in place of barrister?	MIDDLETEMPLE
No way at first for nasty types to be executed, no date being fixed	SINEDIE
Old port in the wood	DEAL
Opening a manuscript, change in case we forget	AMNESIACS
Permission to leave last of the porridge	CON
Railwayman taking over his place in front	VANGUARD
Refreshing place, Newgate Forest	TEAGARDEN
Resistance to dressing for ceremonial office	MAYOR
Sailor’s first thought to acquire marine weapon	SIDEARM
See 12	GEE
State prosecutor found at bottom of Russian river	NEVADA
Strip of paper better, say, submitted to prince informally	ANDYCAPP
Tending to agree ant’s head is only half conscious	ASSENTIENT
They exist in actuality and in potential	ENTIA
They protect brains of women in gestation	MENINGES
Tree’s strong desire to shoot up in island	ALDERNEY
Uncle’s villa I let out with no extra charges	ALLINCLUSIVE
Unwarranted alarm about carbon being in short supply	SCARCE

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,617 – Sep 17 2018

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1,001 computer expert tips on hand-held devices	MICE
Director of volunteers managed to get into trouble	TARANTINO
Do well to make 4 go into 3? Not quite	THRIVE
Doctor to hug feet of each patient? It’s an idea	THOUGHT
Drink that’s preferable for non-drinker to leave	BEER
Fine cut of beef, finally to rescue from a stew	FETCHOFF
Graphical user interface needs department’s manual	GUIDE
Hard, long problem	HITCH
Head of technology backs plastic-free PC monitor	PREFECT
In favour of Democrat president	FORD
Instrument for surveying Roman parts?	GROMA
King rat races against charioteer	ARTHUR
Land what takes skill!	EARTH
Launches campaigns	PROJECTS
Legal fellow’s 33% orange since being shaken up	FORENSIC
Many stars party and kiss everybody at the end	GALAXY
Muzzle tiny pup, now go shaking tails furiously	GUNPOINT
Newspapers ditch leader to cover ultimate issues	RESULTS
Officially purchase novel via phone	BYTHEBOOK
One looking for a geranium?	FORAGER
Outside cover of old magazine, nothing inside	SHOE
Oversleep? I see alarm	PANIC
Pasta made by a river over iron pan	MACARONI
Steelyard demolished, not one to be converted again	RESTYLED
Stop Dorothy holding Lion’s tail or Tin Man’s bottom	DONT
Strong desire, at first, to urinate facing the other way	DEEP
Tend to be troubled by depression?	DENT
This planet’s evolving, not 50 years ago	INTHEPAST
Travellers welcome king and queens	HIKERS
Where shy women undress?	HOME

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,616 – Sep 16 2018

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Badly treats girls wrapping uniform	MISUSES
Betray European judge	RATE
Chief ought to tumble before anything else	FIRSTOFALL
Claudius prepared to eat duck and tart	ACIDULOUS
Cockney in ecstasy since getting offer	EASTENDER
Colours fade	FLAG
Cost of swans in the river	EXPENSE
Development of endless crisis with Spain	EMERGENCE
Diplomacy surrounding Indian leader is understood	TACIT
Disarming agent hurries to embrace Georgia	TEARGAS
Earl to risk concealing condition of building	EDIFICE
Engineer’s relative keeps fowl	STEPHENSON
Ensure boat is ordered for resort	EASTBOURNE
It’s risky to brush with vigour	TOUCHANDGO
Lead otter about? That’ll be endured!	TOLERATED
No-hoper with dreadful roles	LOSER
Nurse enters passage that’s short	TRANSIENT
Painter is special to be embraced by comrade	MATISSE
Parking subsidy is spent	PAID
Penny has licence to provide bromide	PLATITUDE
Portia rarely bears headgear	TIARA
Post shabby clothes in Israel	STATION
Pupil is rather pliant	LISSOME
Regrets adopting liberal laws	RULES
Ridicule first person in French street	JEST
Row makes society slaughter	SCULL
Strike that man in church	CHIME
This month every edition is set up	INSTALLED
Thrash counter-revolutionary?	TROUNCE
Tory leader’s fury fades after misfortunes	TRAGEDIES
Traded in wood tar, initially	DEALT
Wally goes through gym on the way out	PASSE

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,614 – Sep 13 2018

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‘Smudge’ gets to identify an apostle	FINGERMARK
All it needs is the board to engage in battle of wits	CHESSSET
Being southern, suggest ‘Rubicund’ as a pop group name	SIMPLYRED
Come across as ‘fair excited’ — touching!	LIGHTUPON
Come out of Met’s production — bad form	STEM
Computer input is one bit over	DATA
Deal twinned with medium US city	SALEM
Distinct columnar layouts, a hit on stage	SEPARATE
Extinct species of the orc, mouse, bats …	HOMOERECTUS
Fruit pieces: see inside	MELON
High price — necessity, perversely to secure botched DIY	TIDYSUM
Kent’s transformation after mother, grandmother and daughter play	MANAND
No rocker provided key’s final change	MODIFY
Not about to be taken in by expert now!	ATONCE
One who takes after Trotter, the western villain?	HORSETHIEF
Ornamental stone tree? Yes, around about one thousand dollars!	TIGERSEYE
Part of Tennessee Williams’ last ‘hip’ production: morose, electrifying Marlon initially in the lead	MEMPHIS
Ruin archaeological work at artist’s festival	MARDIGRAS
Sally’s custom: collecting chamber pots	RIPOSTE
See 2	SUPERMAN
See 21	FROM
See 23	HOUSEARREST
See 7	TABLES
To belittle a musical note is ultimately futile	MINIMISE
Toilet renter reported an American officer	LIEUTENANT
Town of southern France one missed, being elsewhere at the time	ALBI
Who gives a swinging piece of wood about Newton?	DONOR
Wide path, a mere folly, that has its highs and lows	WEATHERMAP
Works jammed with poles, which might need extracting	TONSILS
You mustn’t leave your home in such a state	UNDER

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,613 – Sep 12 2018

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Clues	Answers
Breakaway meeting involving London’s financial district?	SECESSION
Check made by engineers on regular beat?	REPULSE
Cleaning mess — what’s humiliating about that?	shampooing
Conductors with no love for the mountains	ANDES
Decorated old woman at match embarrassed about nothing	BROIDERED
Demands pounds in speech	NEEDS
Drug that is suspect makes one deeply agitated	DISTRAUGHT
Examination less than barely adequate	SCAN
Girl with poem in the tube	DIODE
Height certain to collect rubbish	STATURE
Humourless politician with a stern style a bit like Trump’s?	POMPADOUR
Knowing about a murder	SLAY
Malleable president finally in charge	PLASTIC
Modern music on sound system in street party, a form of torture	STRAPPADO
Month in which car manufacturer lays off workers, finally	NISAN
No time for homely fashions	MODES
One enthralled by left-winger repeatedly turning up as a mocker	DERIDER
One has ditchwater? There’s nothing that’s dull about it!	MOAT
Politician and tennis player, without hesitation the top celebrities	FEDERALIST
Port’s beginning to drop floating structure, causing a financial problem	OVERDRAFT
Poser of threat, desperate fellow? Foreigner no longer our enemy	DANGERMAN
Prohibition on very loud Canadian resort	BANFF
Rich man making appeal for help, having hoarded gold	SOROS
Shown to be exonerated, five released	INDICATED
Singer is good in loose cloak	DOMINGO
Their horses are in front, running a bit closer	CABRIOLETS
Turkish community is said to adjoin old Russian community	IZMIR
Untidy heap containing red, decomposing shrub	EPHEDRA
Valley outside the borders of my French estate	DEMESNE
Vital chaps who help rulers	COREGENTS
Water’s about to ooze	SEEP
Work extra hard after holiday to produce something old and saucy?	CATCHUP

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,612 – Sep 11 2018

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’21 down’, son says	UTTERS
Charge round interrupting 19	LOAD
Consummate one relationship in the van — angry words follow	ARRANT
Cool in a minor way?	DOWNWITHTHEKIDS
Dead embarrassed accepting hand heartless lady granted	ADMITTEDLY
Destroy decrepit touring vehicle — use this to get round instead	OYSTER
Drift to one side round middle of bend	TENOR
Enters carrying food, so don’t hold back!	GETSTUCKIN
Fancied fish — considered not having starter	IDEATED
Following story about strike	BIFF
Get outta here! One doesn’t appreciate what it costs	GOINGRATE
Half of sisters like girl’s name	NUALA
Held up in Gatwick — customs are disgusting	SUCK
Hinted setter’s bed contains a lot of bugs	IMPLICIT
Light in the past — dieting worked	IGNITED
Mind training for novice in top celebrity run	ADMINISTER
My Joe’s best friend?	CORGI
Ray adopts Republican slogan	MANTRA
See 3	CARD
Snap elastic getting in close for knee trembler	ASPEN
So defending what the Sun produces is wicked?	SATANIC
Solver gets extremely near solution for one of the above	YOUNGSTER
Sticker, it’s on old dish	BURRITO
Stormy on end of line — where is the president?	EISENHOWER
Sweet-talk model believing head’s gone	INVEIGLE
Tea with last slice of lemon in that’s only just been made?	BRANDNEW
This will cater for the rest of the passengers	WAGONLIT
Very silly wearing hat to keep cool	INFANTILE
Why on earth argue about old money? It may offend	DIRTYWORD

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,611 – Sep 10 2018

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A warning about lubricant: it gives you a lift	AEROFOIL
Again, do up rogue’s clothing, about to pinch bum	REBUTTON
Attractive Polish lover	BUFF
Drugs blocking awful feeling of lover	DESIRE
Endless waiting to get 4?	LIMBO
Entrance part of party crowd in gilded ball	DOORJAMB
Follow around flipping idiot in love	DOTING
Funny person brings forward time for threesome	TRIO
Italian lover: see one repeatedly be so frisky	CICISBEO
Japanese leader with fat lover	ABELARD
Lover in group styled hair before ball	LOTHARIO
Lover in transit, on the move	TRISTAN
Lover introducing the verse from Larkin?	THISBE
Lover picked up ribbon	BEAU
Lover with nothing on makes a bloomer	OLEANDER
Lover’s part in Swedish erotica	HERO
Lover’s vow shocked artless female lover	IDOLATRESS
Married slim girl with a fluctuating weight	MILLIGRAMS
Maybe sleeping around leads to tense, edgy argument	DEBATE
One playing lute’s a lover	ISEULT
Playboy or Spooner’s certifiable criminal?	LADMAG
Reluctant lover’s initial vow	LOATH
Risk passion, following break-up	ENDANGER
See setter embracing individuals lacking love	LONESOME
Shortly accepting ordinary kind of love	COURTLY
Suitor admitting, say, what he wants?	LEGOVER
Supports two boys one dates half-heartedly	Patronises
Try dry fleece worn by hot, dishy type	HEARTTHROB

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,610 – Sep 9 2018

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A fine cut of meat	MINCE
Americans are from a different planet	NEWWORLD
Be elated to have one’s stroll broadcast?	WALKONAIR
Biscuit gives diet variety	DIGESTIVE
Both parents collect a new hat	PANAMA
Burning desire	PYROMANIA
Charge through the gate	ENTRYFEE
Chief relaxes car safety features	HEADRESTS
Drinking vessel allowed to touch mouth	GOBLET
Examiner is in wrong street	TESTER
Famous person’s family title	HOUSEHOLDNAME
Firmly establishes ancestry	ROOTS
Go away and get busy	BEATIT
Hearing revolutionary, takes notice	MARKS
Incredible account of the giraffe?	TALLSTORY
Local tour that goes swimmingly?	PUBCRAWL
On board ship, head for the drink	WALKTHEPLANK
Perhaps bee managed to cross river	DRONE
Police team having wildly exciting time?	RIOTSQUAD
Random glances around from muck spreader	SCANDALMONGER
Read casually, gets worse in translation	BROWSE
Sailor given errand is away	ABSENT
Start making dress from pattern and stop	CUTITOUT
Strong, virile types submitted to surgeon	VEHEMENT
Tackling Alp, hasn’t a walking stick	ASHPLANT
The opposite of what AA stands for?	ALCOHOLABUSE
Violinist’s private room	BOWER
Walk furtively in square with nothing to do	SIDLE