The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Monday, 21st October 2002

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 21st October 2002. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Reliable way to limit bloodshed
AAcross 5:	Extraordinary refusal by the board
AAcross 10:	Sidewalk pedestrian
AAcross 11:	What no man may serve in brigs?	TWOMASTERS
AAcross 12:	Samuel's mother is unaffected by reversals	HANNAH
AAcross 13:	Barrels found around ancient dumps
AAcross 14:	O for an employment exchange!
AAcross 16:	Man-of-war rounds the point for shelter
AAcross 17:	Rates set aside; rents remain
AAcross 19:	A snowdrop?
AAcross 23:	Without vigour of late?
AAcross 24:	Close - doubly close in fact
AAcross 26:	Man takes action as a precaution
AAcross 27:	I need nothing, thanks, or very little
AAcross 28:	Course given in arms
AAcross 29:	Sort of study carried out by bathyscape?	INDEPTH
DDown 2:	Rent row produces a storm
DDown 3:	Ancient city prohibition applies to all cities
DDown 4:	Understand and win popularity
DDown 6:	Appeal to a mass meeting with words
DDown 7:	PM comes out of No 10 for a break
DDown 8:	US city has false alarm that's cut short
DDown 9:	Cabinet minister provides rally in disaster
DDown 15:	Go in after fish and chips
DDown 18:	He won't eat anything
DDown 20:	Illumination provided 26 across?
DDown 21:	Practice at home ground
DDown 22:	Devoted to continue lamenting the dead?	KEENON
DDown 25:	A point about wood for burning