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The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 8th January 2002
There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 8th January 2002. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Wildean response to vetting in New York: "Oh, gee!", exclaimed Oscar. "Up the revolution!"IHAVENOTHINGTO
AAcross 8: Vestment heavily embroidered in California
AAcross 9: Gallows's construction for pranksterOWLGLASS
AAcross 11: See 1
AAcross 12: When might one include the Big Apple in a sentence?
AAcross 13: Mother-in-law's lament takes one back...
AAcross 15: ... amidst which her daughter-in-law stood to cook, clean, iron...ALIENCORN
AAcross 17: Mlle Nin absorbs men's failure in "Remembrance of Things Past"
AAcross 20: Post hoc yobbo leered at leaders of taxonomic divisions
AAcross 21: Out on a limb with this deception?
AAcross 23: Particular church circles backing affirmation
AAcross 25: Let alumni get to grips with utterance
AAcross 26: Inspirational figure from under a toadstool
AAcross 27: See 1EXCEPTMYGENIUS
DDown 1: Apropos of where detectives are intellectually foreshortened
DDown 2: Piper with Montezuma's air force?
DDown 3: Floating vote again spoiled
DDown 4: Large cable inside a minesweeper's float
DDown 5: Prince rallying all with one bugle call
DDown 6: Charles II was dying to say "Please feed this elephant"
DDown 7: Times puzzle in Blair's manifesto
DDown 10: She "kissed me when we met" and without saying why. O, Eliot! This is your queen!JENNYANYDOTS
DDown 14: William III's coffin?ORANGEBOX
DDown 16: Ulster Protestant's initiation; one's in training with the Shintoists
DDown 18: Thus allowed to make advances
DDown 19: What one enters coming out
DDown 22: The BBC hasn't begun to deliver
DDown 24: Mystic immersed one