The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 24th October 2001

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 24th October 2001. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Just a single parent
AAcross 10:	Tell a tall tale and get the thread of it?
AAcross 11:	Rider, first away, wins 1 pound following the others ...
AAcross 12:	... and the others must inspire Gothic endings
AAcross 13:	Ready to drop ad?
AAcross 14:	Jill of all trades - and how many, roughly	HANDYWOMAN
AAcross 15:	Labourer came first to invest the fluctuating mark
AAcross 17:	Narco ends off being overwhelmed by Brave New World drug growth
AAcross 19:	Confident? Some nerve! I'm first to be taken in
AAcross 22:	See 13
AAcross 23:	Bristol fashion porter
AAcross 24:	Sharon is raising kings in 11
AAcross 26:	Take note of queues forming for Shaffer's play
AAcross 27:	Freewheels before getting to another place
DDown 1:	se a blindfold to lead solvers up the garden path?	PULLTHEWOOLOVER
DDown 2:	Strange one!
DDown 3:	One with inside knowledge set up the fiesta
DDown 4:	See 10	GOODYARN
DDown 5:	Map makers lean to port	OSTEND
DDown 6:	One takes pains to avoid amphetamine pills and Swiss pot
DDown 7:	Friends, perhaps, arrive shortly after rest
DDown 8:	Have known better days to chance upon Dickens' work	FALLONHARDTIMES
DDown 16:	Mind clumsy sommelier dropping second claret?
DDown 17:	Superlatively unctuous list re-drawn to accommodate van der Rohe
DDown 18:	See 1	ONESEYES
DDown 20:	Stomach having to accept journalist (not Hill) displaying monotony
DDown 21:	Probe away to capture revolting peasant? Not right!
DDown 25:	Barney's rackets