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The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 22nd August 2002
There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 22nd August 2002. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Crew in a fight, possibly giving employment in the Blitz
AAcross 8: Tiny lad cast in stone? That's the best one can hope for
AAcross 9: Goddess using force to feed animals
AAcross 11: English woods producing fiddlesticks!
AAcross 12: A stein brought round after the last of the summer wine
AAcross 13: To take a king away, duke must also be carried
AAcross 14: Ready for war in pits?
AAcross 14: Ready for war in pits?
AAcross 16: Conductor and professor wouldn''t stop talkingRATTLEDON
AAcross 19: A light neither fore nor aft
AAcross 21: Profane love at one remove
AAcross 23: Four or six in rehearsal? That's not important
AAcross 24: Engaged in daring activities, like bonsai?
AAcross 25: Like Sappho, born in an isle abroad
AAcross 26: Trees oft hewn in Hants?THENEWFOREST
DDown 1: Most suitable match for survivors?
DDown 2: Poet having the edge when it comes to speed of transmission
DDown 3: A dog that's large, beginning to fill house, gets turned out
DDown 4: In Versailles you stick up for the royal family
DDown 5: Writing concealed by heart-rending creature in a cage
DDown 6: Like a professor in the cinema, but more so? Teachers bank on it
DDown 7: What resurrectionists do about Queen Margaret's last poet
DDown 10: Getting together again - like outside, like inside
DDown 15: Verdi's fourth opera about an upstanding sculptor
DDown 17: Spooner's low bit is over the top
DDown 18: Pressurised nitrogen stored under shedLEANTON
DDown 19: A paper product in disputeATISSUE
DDown 20: No democrat wants one's title changed
DDown 22: Provide for party in various ways, as does the sparrow or the crow