The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 10th May 2002

There are 14 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 10th May 2002. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Wacky plan involves spinning a disc
AAcross 5:	Edward''s about to receive what''s left over from wreck
AAcross 9:	Third generation pianos playing
AAcross 10:	Highly narcotic drug several get into
AAcross 11:	(and 13,20) "O Fate!", I lament, "Withered and finished unpredictably!"	INTHEMIDSTOF
AAcross 13:	See 11
AAcross 14:	Model trains in front of container
AAcross 17:	Lug crone to Eastern city of yore
AAcross 18:	He''s said to display humility	NEIL
AAcross 20:	See 11	WEAREINDEATH
AAcross 23:	Old-fashioned place in France
AAcross 24:	Greek character to shock bird
AAcross 25:	Dandy making unseemly haste to tee off
AAcross 26:	Leaderless war engine impeded by chain
DDown 2:	Bringing a brother round for a hairdo
DDown 3:	Season puts silly mid-on in the money
DDown 4:	Prepared to split vegetable with old coin
DDown 5:	Bow and scrape when news is broadcast between balls	DANCEATTENDANCE
DDown 6:	Voting system is interfering with effective counter-attack
DDown 7:	Plenty flanking underground flower
DDown 8:	So NHS price-fixing needs regulation?
DDown 12:	Episodic resentment involving nurses
DDown 15:	It''s a shrewd idea to gamble on one with a handicap
DDown 16:	Inhabitant of the Orient Express initially chasing graduate on railway
DDown 19:	Invocation causing upturn in cunning little war
DDown 21:	Zoroastrian''s source of Sunday lunch?
DDown 22:	Hurt the billman