The Guardian Cryptic Crossword Answers

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,823 – May 16 2019

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Bar beginning to rock, joint almost back in mood	TOBLERONE
Bar supporting bridge venture?	FORBID
Bar where XXXX’s brewed Dutch settler drinks	BOOZER
Barry, it could be said, appears difficult	STICKY
Buttocks finally scratched by short Middle Eastern woman famous for modelling	TUSSAUD
Drifter on bar, overly sensitive type	SNOWFLAKE
Elastic band found in small bar	SCRUNCHIE
Flipping dull, echoing gong	TAMTAM
Foot I test out, trapping two balls?	TOOTSIE
Game of cards seldom breaking banks	OMBRE
Hat figure put on head, turned around	BONNET
Head off alien, green head off!	AVERT
In bar, risk bottles	BETWIXT
In shelter, female with long fingernail given a wide berth	LEFTALONE
Jolly casual punches in bar	GALAXY
Money returned by the way, covered by bill for meat	BEEFSTEAK
More than one bound to get drink in bar	MARGINS
Name a character in the centre of big Gulf state	DUBAI
Old annalist understood everyone here	TACITUS
Old player, female in the field grabbed by supporter	MAEWEST
Private sector’s heart broken by waste	CLOSET
Queen Mary, say, getting bottom scrubbed, so cold	SHIVERY
Russian dish baked without filling, virtually inedible at first	BLINI
Something to solve on double-decker	REBUS
Staff party in a new part of Greece	MACEDONIA
State of Brazil’s sheepish comment about greeting	BAHIA
Supporter left in street, befuddled	TRESTLE
Tentative insight as to why crack is filled with two gases	THEORY
Travelling, some fork taken in country, heading for town	ITINERANT
Trouble looking worse ultimately, certainly with retinue	EYESTRAIN
Useless exercise by pioneer oddly forgotten	INEPT
Wine bar frequented by sweet Fanny Adams	SOAVE

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,822 – May 15 2019

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… as you help construct a theatre	PLAYHOUSE
Agreed, so healthy	VERYWELL
Antique is regularly oiled	OLD
Bad driver holds up 10 for judge’s preliminary examination of a witness	VOIRDIRE
Campaigns not getting into corrupted works	OPERAS
Christmas sign up after 1st of November	NOEL
Country with drinks	WALES
Desires a soft, small French salad for starter	APPETITES
English bowler hat folds twice, centrally	ALI
Friend twisted dial — not sure it’s heavy metal	PALLADIUM
Gentleman sent back fried meat dish — fish is off	SIR
Godfather recalled lines wearing glasses	APOLLO
Good many become Guides	PILOTS
Government managed 500 promotions for relatives	GRANDADS
Hotel, for example, housing 50?	SAVOY
Intense colour contains navy	VIOLENT
Las Vegas entertains Queen with candour	SINCERITY
Loads sleep with partners	DOZENS
Magnificent, faithful leader swapping sides …	ROYAL
Musician, one who used to tour with Queen?	PRINCE
On turning, whisk ain’t making jelly	GELATIN
Over 50? I struggle to get right actor	OLIVIER
Physician returns US weapon in pouch	CODPIECE
Playwright’s shocking and her plot’s about independence, right?	HAROLD
Priest’s after the style of church residence	PALACE
Region of land has no river	COUNTY
Room for hire? Initially, everyone	HALL
See 6	PINTER
Small boy, about 4, does a cartwheel	VIC
Trouble being on time delivering letter	MESSAGE
Write extremely neatly for money	PENNY
Yellow fish gobbled up, uncooked	COWARD

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,821 – May 14 2019

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Baseball player’s gear suitable for athletes	SHORTSTOP
Complaint of US soldier largely ignored	FUSS
Conservative party’s desire?	CRAVE
Dependent nations worried liberal outsiders in places	SATELLITES
During the Raj, Sir Henry stops prejudice rising	SAHIB
Fragrance in Paris that breaks spell	BOUQUET
French actor the worse for wear, we’re told	TATI
Heretic in occasional outbursts striking a priest’s bottom	ICONOCLAST
In fun, publish unbound novel with ingratiating words	PLAUSIBLY
It’s barely legal abroad	JUSTABOUT
Lay out pound in old coins	SPEND
Like an athlete now running with sudden passion (2,3,4,2,3,6)	INTHE
Like the compulsive buyer heading off in a rage?	HOPPINGMAD
Lively pal and I keeping punter busy before match	PRENUPTIAL
Love changes female organs	OVARIES
Over the moon in darkness?	DELIGHTED
Passage from paper is read back	SINUS
Regret returning down under, sole region sharing its bread	EUROZONE
See 6	HEATOFTHEMOMENT
Society’s branch register	LODGE
Spooner’s pressman commissions famous cricketer	JACKHOBBS
Spread out, following teacher precipitately	HEADLONG
Squashed parrot’s foot on perch	TROD
Stop a squad playing	ABANDON
Suppress government’s initial report	BANG
Tempting food I introduced to club	BAIT
Timber trade	DEAL
Tiny ledge for climber to view, lacking breadth	TOEHOLD
Unusually mature Derby poet, 37 or so	BODYTEMPERATURE
Very next note dropped by me in bank	EXTREMELY

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,820 – May 13 2019

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‘I’m clueless!’ — Hunt to Amber regularly	SEARCHME
‘Second-rate!’ Upset about new book collection	TINPOT
Approval for one like this	SAYSO
Aunt suffering with health — it’s an old scourge	ATTILA
Car journeys taking off round French city	LIMOGES
Chaotic — a bit reminiscent of Grayling, perhaps	CABINETMINISTER
Composer Henry ignored minor problem over National Insurance	PUCCINI
Good to have nude round boat	BARGE
Has to keep very quiet about love poet	SAPPHO
How to sell admirer snaps — look inside	MAILORDER
Idea to reduce growth	PLAN
It’s unusual, Marilyn, but not unknown — have it out	ITALIANVERMOUTH
Knackered old bus conductor’s role reversal	RATTLETRAP
Making unwelcome contact with maidens in country — over a thousand	SPAMMING
More from Turkey’s premier artist	EXTRA
Most important person to lead America? Idiot!	TOPBANANA
Nothing is held back? Don’t believe it!	ASIF
On return, initially enjoyed short break from action	TRUCE
One in speech covers list of offences	RAPSHEET
One’s lucky having time with Angelo Dundee?	TALISMAN
Opposed to some financial help for drifter	VAGRANT
Over 50 reasons they might be dependent	CLAUSES
Retreat from problem — can new Head of Technology crack it?	SANCTUM
See 7	THEHUN
Seeing and disapproving of son getting engaged	DESCRYING
Shambles a government covered up by individual speaking thus	ONMESSAGE
Somewhat perverse — lunar revolution took longer than expected	OVERRAN
Way back	MEMORYLANE

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,819 – May 12 2019

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Artist holds up gold casket for the band	ORCHESTRA
Beliefs about current in river	LOIRE
Book Ian’s sheep for treatment	EPHESIANS
Charlie’s discourteous and rough	CRUDE
Deer takes one for a ride	DOES
Donkey attendants in deer molestation	HARASSMENT
Emphasise cropped hair	TRESS
Finest English drink	TOPE
Fruit makes mild alcoholic drink, but with no head	CLEMENTINE
Illuminated note in volume	LITRE
Joy about English victory and promotion	ELEVATION
Loyal? Huns act badly!	STAUNCH
Musician takes time over odd disciple	TRUMPETER
New look with Japanese sash? That’s capital!	NAIROBI
Object endlessly to the French style	ENTITLE
Pastor gets usher to beg	PLEAD
Penny has beer and pasty	PALE
Pit of despair	DEPRESSION
Pottery expert drinks port	DELFT
Prepare sentence for when the audience is best	PRIMETIME
Purgative stops meals being digested	EPSOMSALTS
Push off about now in Arctic vehicle	SNOWCAT
Rascal learning to appeal	IMPLORE
Remains calm	REST
Rigour of head supporting old enterprise	EXACTNESS
Risked getting daughter murdered	DICED
Score runs in a series	ARRANGE
Setter’s old-fashioned? That’s an insurmountable difficulty!	IMPASSE
Small border plant	SEDGE
Surprise people over time in therapy	TREATMENT
Uncovering deceit? Not difficult!	DETECTION
Vet fell over burrow	EXAMINE

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,817 – May 9 2019

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Amazed to play Viola, line’s forgotten in Cliff’s place	BOWLEDOVER
Bull where Jack’s found round rushes	PACKOFLIES
Chuck Norris finally punching Leo, for one	CAST
Clingy type left Mike, taken by current favourite	LIMPET
Cool sort of record Henry and Tom cover	HEPCAT
For Dirk, pedant’s out of line	STICKER
Grant’s a court favourite, according to hearsay	CEDE
Guy in spin	EDDY
Guy in spin? That’s correct	PROPER
Harry Potter taking drug a high point for Rowan	TREETOP
He should be in Nick’s wild revel, one engaging cook	EVILDOER
Hit works about Jacob’s relative with right vocabulary in these	THESAURI
Mary drops a name introducing artist and player	MARADONA
Morgan, say, and Paddy dress down	CARPET
Nancy’s really with Carol, making a coiffure	TRESSING
Norman’s bird providing fake news	CANARD
One in dire straits could be Horace	SATIRIST
One travelling late, a shade before Amber picked up yours truly	REDEYE
Oscar regularly pulls in money for luxury	OPULENCE
Ruth’s mine and yours, at first	PITY
Sally’s in class, penning Latin	PLEASANTRY
Sibyl follows bag painter	LANDSEER
Terry’s very good fortune? Not half	FABRIC
The main youth supporting Frank in free time	OPENSEASON
Tommy’s revealing little	PRIVATE
Track plugged by Kelvin that is more unsettling	SPOOKIER
Two lots of Mary Jane’s brewing equipment	TEAPOT
What Victor will do, a bit charming	WINSOME

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,816 – May 8 2019

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… and for performance, ultimately a male chemical	REAGENT
Always a sudoku, possibly, for social harmony?	NEVERACROSSWORD
Any person yet to see whisky promoted?	WHOEVER
Bird dived across the pond	DOVE
Boss had embraced sweetheart, given honest choice (not half)	HEADHONCHO
Captured by spies from the east saying you are made of gold	AURIC
Change sides with Dr Who to become a ranch hand	COWHERD
Charge university student implicated in search	COULOMB
Dicky learned that in the West End	theatreland
Dump below?	BOWELMOVEMENT
Funny man’s rice pudding — second helping arrived, bowl first eaten	ERICMORECAMBE
Gas worried a very young person	NEONATE
Gives no warning to road users and couldn’t care less	DOESNTGIVEAHOOT
Grow up dear! That’s not even cheese!	GOUDA
Heavy bones are not just visible with clothing removed	ONEROUS
Importance of parasites coming back, in a manner of speaking	DISTINCTION
Intends to have different names in the same answer	MEANS
No pain or gain as ale is drunk	ANALGESIA
One loses faith when a male part’s not right …	APOSTATE
One type of power about to switch	ISOLATOR
Part of hospital in coma	TRANCHE
See 13	STORE
Six and half a dozen being the same not producing eggs	VIVIPARITY
Some great awful shop	MEGA
Ulster starts to expect witty improvisation in Irish comedian	ERNIEWISE
Where Oxonian may dream and breathe?	INSPIRE

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,815 – May 7 2019

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A case of home tuition	ETUI
A case of meeting about 4	DATIVE
Accessible island to the west on open stretch of water	REACHABLE
Avoiding interaction in adult party	ASOCIAL
Bacteria in bird’s eye, say	COCCI
Body part in rubbish bin — and what setter did about it?	SHINBONE
Broke diet, with a third of vol-au-vent demolished	VIOLATED
Fiddle duet in US residence	CONDO
Game’s up, in general, for inspector	LESTRADE
Girl having one drink	LASSI
Highest points of a group of stars with only one sun	APICES
Involve one like Puck — a Celt, I suspect	IMPLICATE
Joint providing German wine	HOCK
Liqueur taking legroom in car	LIMONCELLO
Missile landing right inside MI5	MIRV
Murderer taking taxi home after disposing of bishop	CAIN
Muscles in groups working together? Not initially	QUADS
Prince appearing in dream, eerily	AMEER
Pub notice about a pope	INNOCENTI
Recording of sibling rivalry?	DVD
Reserves with which to back horses, perhaps	SECOND
Say 4 getting stripped off ‘offensive’? Solutions include each member of such a group with G-strings on	QUARTET
See 23	STRING
Small tablet found in shed	SPILL
Son, not daughter, of writer gets ill	SICKENS
Stars regular characters in 4, 6 or 9, primarily	ORION
Still in tears periodically during sex	INERT
Striking a flowing boundary up in Durham — it leads to century	DRAMATIC
Suite, perhaps, for 13 across going 1 down	THREEPIECE
Tsetses flying in groups of 6	SESTETS
Verse given to a German tenor	VEIN
Very bitter civil unrest about 14	VITRIOLIC
Wound up seeing statue’s name	EROS

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,814 – May 6 2019

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8 recalling resin, liquid in plant	PASCAL
8’s expression without opening round brackets	FERMAT
8’s short cut in talk	GALOIS
8’s signal up top	EUCLID
Actions, one’s taken away?	SUIT
Add to our central figure in female	HEIGHTEN
Complete deviation	SHEER
Describing this puzzle, one across in person?	MATHEMATICIAN
Ending in fields in order to graze easily	NOSWEAT
Fight southpaw primarily in further test	RESIST
Further 108?	NEWTON
Group hurried up, catching second 8	DESCARTES
Hair-raiser German dramatist hasn’t started	CHILLER
Having kicked me out, rest home desperate for rest	OTHERS
Heading for touring car (no need for cab) — that’s poetic	TRIOLET
Lesser figure ends in juvenile court, having broken law	STATUETTE
Look to inspire something positive as developer	PIONEER
Nothing in powder, no thanks — here’s a medical replacement	LOCUM
Perhaps unable to give bird sanctuary praise, farm shut up	BRANCHLESS
Popular old horse getting beat again?	REDRUM
Problem faced boarding middle, getting on back of bus	COLD
See 15	CASE
See 25	SORE
Show trick that’s great	GIGANTIC
Something funny in setting of gelatin	TAGLINE
Stars appearing as debris in centre of negative	GLITTERATI
The mark of a business armed with neat moves	TRADENAME
Where tax should have been paid, ring royal family	TOLLHOUSE
White drink bottles behind brown, ultimately	ALBUMEN

The Guardian – Cryptic Crossword Answers No 27,813 – May 5 2019

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A month, helpers said, appearing as a very long time	DECADES
Almost nobody died? Yes, twelve	NOONDAY
American chose to cook eastern dish	MACARONICHEESE
Bird often seen on building site	CRANE
Criterion for replacing dirty cask	YARDSTICK
Due to be in old part of mansion	OWING
Funny group, Karl and The Monks	MARXBROTHERS
Good sitting posture for part of course	BACKSTRAIGHT
How kangaroo may be caught unawares?	ONTHEHOP
Kingsley & Son put together wrongly	AMISS
Lucky to be not so much asleep?	BLESSED
Material for carving kinky teaspoons	SOAPSTONE
Money being short, settled down with a sweet	CASSATA
One eating fish given charge for cutlery?	SPOONBILL
One with claws caught her slip, perhaps	CATCHER
Party-giver shortly meets reflective girl, glory be!	HOSANNA
Pastoral events demanding reform	PEASANTSREVOLT
Proper mess in front field	REALM
Rugby game doesn’t start at these odds	EVENS
Sanctioned, having peddled drugs round province	PUNISHED
Share out much broadcasting	ALLOT
Slackening corps’ objective	REMISSION
Sort of acid, could I be? Wrong	AMINO
St Wenceslas’s feast day?	STEPHEN
Supersede corded cloth with fine fabric	REPLACE
Transport: repeat run when ordered	ENRAPTURE
Unsympathetic, like a rhino?	HARDNOSED
Wardrobe likely to conceal daggers	OBELI