The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 29th November 2001

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 29th November 2001. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Get both sides all out, producing a no-win situation?	CATCHTWENTYTWO
AAcross 8:	The shape of decay
AAcross 9:	Pause for popular pest cut short
AAcross 11:	Away support in the wilds
AAcross 12:	Forgive poet admitting backward look to verse
AAcross 13:	Giant periodical covering game	MAGOG
AAcross 15:	Small plant may look lively
AAcross 17:	It's unique, on average, in man
AAcross 20:	Take the fizz out of the painter
AAcross 21:	Identify one god and goddess
AAcross 23:	Drink returned amid expression of contempt for perk
AAcross 25:	Mean to crack the number of the games console	NINTENDO
AAcross 26:	Some of its sculptors obviously can't do heads
AAcross 27:	Tetchy allusion common in academic writing
DDown 1:	Covering people with dung is reasonable
DDown 2:	Financial arrangement reportedly held in bond
DDown 3:	Bloom's monster swallowing rage, almost
DDown 4:	Ruse for getting the last bit of vinegar into the seafood
DDown 5:	Two sorts of vermin gaining energy from fertiliser
DDown 6:	Tales of heartless sunbeam in the ascendant
DDown 7:	One girl crashed into former Liberal at the roundabout
DDown 10:	Examiner, one holding up drunk male driver
DDown 14:	Old region revisited by boatman
DDown 16:	Dog inducing shepherd's delight?
DDown 18:	Spain's slender golden girl	ELEANOR
DDown 19:	Free ride cancelled at outset of long journey
DDown 19:	Free ride cancelled at outset of long journey
DDown 22:	Singers bound head to foot
DDown 24:	Unproductive-sounding title