The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 31st December 2002

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 31st December 2002. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Bigwig with big backing from primate
AAcross 5:	The fisherman's whim
AAcross 8:	The country round follows alternative 1s
AAcross 9:	Winter sports association for 51 bucks, maybe	SKICLUB
AAcross 11:	Ignis fatuus for back-packers?	TRAVELLINGLIGHT
AAcross 12:	Address to Manx cat by 8 across 1s, maybe
AAcross 13:	A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable
AAcross 17:	Before there's an upheaval, get a better job
AAcross 18:	Precious little 12 for others
AAcross 20:	Change from cad with clot and from 19 1s' 12	COLDCOMFORTFARM
AAcross 23:	Young creature for hire, always to be taken in
AAcross 24:	Nobel prizewinner could be lost in a tabloid	SULSTON
AAcross 25:	Waged war determinedly to show 1
AAcross 26:	Literary hero's drunk
DDown 2:	All turn - that's demanded out of spite
DDown 3:	I won't allow you to flag
DDown 4:	Pasta with Benedictine in the realm of folly
DDown 5:	Two generations could be free
DDown 6:	1s putting a smile on a fish	GRINLING
DDown 7:	POW camp with prisoners' regulator?
DDown 8:	Heal portico that's collapsed: is this correctly pronounced?
DDown 10:	Drink in Germany - please get the right answer
DDown 14:	Beasts and bird in battle
DDown 15:	Heath makes himself known about scheme that wasn't there at first
DDown 16:	Two churches on song: a worm will follow
DDown 19:	A girl to confess being inside it
DDown 21:	Grey cover containing 6
DDown 22:	Matched and dispatched?