The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 5th July 2001

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 5th July 2001. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	The carrier's in liquor, the rat!
AAcross 9:	See 21
AAcross 10:	Jumper to do a runner, say
AAcross 11:	Big bud, the way into favour
AAcross 12:	Playwright's half 2 in cheese
AAcross 14:	24across comes back and nods off: they 2 24across's 11
AAcross 15:	A send off for one of 9 or 14	REDCARD
AAcross 17:	A weight - I can carry it all	ATONEGO
AAcross 20:	Grand student on fieldwork at scene of 18
AAcross 22:	Gates, maybe, soft before time
AAcross 23:	Galilee, the place arranged with an opening
AAcross 24:	Friday's child? Some giving, right, and a little loving?
AAcross 25:	Part of the bloodline in paternal grandmother?
AAcross 26:	Mediterranean 2, home about 2
DDown 1:	What 13 does is 8
DDown 2:	Region with a reason, without an issue
DDown 3:	15 means extra repeats
DDown 4:	Take chair before team?
DDown 5:	See 19	THEFEAST
DDown 6:	Muslim leader, cast iron, at a scene of 18
DDown 7:	Out of one's mind with 14?
DDown 13:	Scheherazade was seen playing with our cat
DDown 16:	Terminus unidentifiable since privatisation?
DDown 18:	Lord Muck in effusion by Charlie Chaplin
DDown 19:	Sneak thief, for example, with pet arrangement for celebrating Christmas?
DDown 21:	If they want company, name a cathedral to attend: there are plenty about
DDown 22:	Church's column, not well within standard
DDown 24:	Hoddle in Scotland for a single night?