The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 17th May 2002

There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 17th May 2002. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Human that's like a fox?
AAcross 10:	Mother parachutes from aeroplane - that shows backbone
AAcross 11:	Scent it's time to leave returning groups of monkeys
AAcross 12:	Detestable as 9 may be
AAcross 13:	Spy ring
AAcross 14:	Girl on the game contracted a rash
AAcross 17:	Pop, but classical
AAcross 19:	Trendy, but lacking wit to get clobber
AAcross 20:	Resistance shown by Workers' Party to Royal Family
AAcross 21:	Does hiding-place cause one to be late?
AAcross 22:	Tea includes, in addition, a kind of bun	CHELSEA
AAcross 24:	Dog has run out with programme? That's rarely conceivable!
AAcross 26:	Rich soil for frame
AAcross 28:	It's Project No. 5 - and that's flat!
AAcross 29:	Is place in chaos south of the mountains?
DDown 1:	Disorder is mounting in Assembly
DDown 2:	Rupert Bear, say?
DDown 3:	Sort of policy to suit the Lib-Dems?
DDown 4:	Tick found on mane and coat of animal
DDown 5:	Solitary worker's absorbing task
DDown 6:	Second limo - a mark of the well-healed, they say
DDown 7:	Beauty wearing crash helmet seriously maligned
DDown 8:	Soak has imbibed litres of punch
DDown 13:	Soft-spoken, captivating and with taste
DDown 15:	Bar label on type of dairy product
DDown 16:	Halt development of unborn over a main artery
DDown 18:	Message in margin let back
DDown 19:	Book robust defender
DDown 22:	Celebrity could be made up
DDown 23:	Workshop for the academic? Count us out!
DDown 24:	Work put into church vestment
DDown 25:	We're told watershed forms this line
DDown 27:	Sea bass