The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 9th August 2001

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 9th August 2001. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	* Song about goldfish (nearly)
AAcross 10:	Assured of keeping rust in plants
AAcross 11:	Game needing double top
AAcross 12:	Where reluctant Scotsman lives?	LOTHIAN
AAcross 13:	Two notes from a Port-uguese folk song
AAcross 14:	Bouncer at the Leisure Club?
AAcross 16:	Silver ring on the floor
AAcross 17:	It could be bought for a tanner
AAcross 17:	It could be bought for a tanner
AAcross 19:	A he-man died horribly here
AAcross 22:	Orcadian hut for retreating louts
AAcross 24:	Where one holds the driver!
AAcross 25:	* Castro, with the heart of a lion	FIDELIO
AAcross 26:	* River maiden, perhaps
AAcross 27:	Maori chief smuggled gun to IRA
DDown 1:	Capital members' gardens redeveloped for the Millennium	CARDIFFARMSPARK
DDown 2:	Raider starting to arrange a murder most foul
DDown 3:	A novel shovel
DDown 4:	Suited for night warfare, by the sound of it
DDown 5:	In Aqaba, a lime grove houses fertility gods
DDown 6:	* Bridge opponents found after both run away	BUNTHORNE
DDown 7:	* Car behind empty garage
DDown 8:	A different way of asking to be wed at the bar
DDown 15:	Good daughters end as good mothers
DDown 17:	Support for the workforce?
DDown 18:	All I do with a potassium compound is this
DDown 20:	Where sweethearts fell most violently at sea...
DDown 21:	* ... then drank the contents	HENDRA
DDown 23:	He lives by puffing