The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 17th April 2002

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 17th April 2002. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Number of singers about fifty
AAcross 5:	From orphan to mother - that's the spirit!
AAcross 9:	Ecclesiastical title getting high honour is poison
AAcross 10:	Exclusive physicist in water needs waterproof
AAcross 11:	Male has trouble with note about female model in first boat	HEADOFTHERIVER
AAcross 13:	Love is painful when wrongly directed
AAcross 14:	Conclusive instructors of actors in film	LASTRADA
AAcross 17:	Shrub with 6 and "I say, a moving grove"
AAcross 18:	Tick over - no good?
AAcross 21:	Union negotiator puts down indicator about one in fury with comrade
AAcross 23:	Old tiara bought initially off the back of a lorry
AAcross 24:	Comment of stable relationship among those next door?
AAcross 25:	Harlot has gold - which is in character? Not quite
AAcross 26:	Theme that has to be mastered
DDown 1:	Look out from hiding-place?
DDown 2:	Gunner with a stripe provides a cobbler with a minder	LANCEBOMBARDIER
DDown 3:	Cure for extreme dyslexia
DDown 4:	Don't punish the French gentleman
DDown 5:	Role call: solution, fiery exit line
DDown 6:	Promptitude, city style, to embrace the right
DDown 7:	It isn't given to us, they say: leave wooden bits out	TOLOVEANDBEWISE
DDown 8:	One delving below the surface without fear - a psychologist?
DDown 12:	The big guns of rock
DDown 15:	Flighty creature finds berries on the willow
DDown 16:	Bellowed, kind of sneezed, and whistled (Alice): to urge boat to move	OUTGRABE
DDown 19:	Homes for bloke in rising water
DDown 20:	Associate goblin with aristocrat
DDown 22:	See 5