The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 23rd October 2001

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 23rd October 2001. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Utterly blown out from wordsmith	BULWER
AAcross 4:	See 1
AAcross 9:	Dustman
AAcross 10:	Consort making name in Co-Conran creation
AAcross 11:	Where the ayatollahs lie in state with an omophagous Amazonian
AAcross 12:	Son of Slad's directors catching my drift with this?
AAcross 13:	North Atlantic threat a pretext to make an Italian hop
AAcross 15:	"With ____ of leaves and ripple of rain" (Thwinburne)
AAcross 16:	The limit of Procol Harum's colour chart?
AAcross 17:	Coming before the water hazard
AAcross 21:	Ash Wednesday, oddly enough, not so fast
AAcross 22:	Captain Scott names the game hunter
AAcross 24:	Populate the county? Cool it!
AAcross 25:	Harry Ramsden's contribution to IT?
AAcross 26:	Some coal left out for fire
AAcross 27:	Anthropologist's objective in Melton Mowbray?
DDown 1:	Eleventh hour in the BBC Book Department?
DDown 2:	Witch reverting to nameless creature
DDown 3:	Old forty-niner's right to raise hell
DDown 5:	Why, some say, a French priest has the right to talk nonsense
DDown 6:	One might own the body of this designer's work
DDown 7:	This paint completely dry, is it?
DDown 8:	What 1 across 4 wrote applied to times of ashy destruction	THELASTDAYSOF
DDown 14:	Girl wearing underwear here in Texas
DDown 16:	See 8
DDown 18:	Levantine gentleman speaking, initially, of France and North Dakota
DDown 19:	Thus the Colossus managed to carry the first load of bricks	RHODIAN
DDown 20:	Against entering trade disruption at short notice
DDown 23:	Alternative medicine man