The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 23rd May 2003

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 23rd May 2003. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Make safe application, getting overfed first
AAcross 4:	Differentiate flow
AAcross 9:	Crucial juncture to clue "on purpose"?
AAcross 10:	Nurses start to show sign of affection
AAcross 11:	Reminder that middle of alphabet gets unsteady income
AAcross 12:	Language of island issuin' challenge
AAcross 14:	Throw's thrown, mould's moulded and 9's passed	THEDIE
AAcross 15:	See 14	ISCAST
AAcross 18:	Artist takes a line about currency
AAcross 21:	Flourish on husks and meal
AAcross 22:	Drink putrid stuff in commotion
AAcross 24:	"Perchance to dream" amid religious images - pass 9	CROSSTHERUBICON
AAcross 25:	Lecher said to glow
AAcross 26:	Papers not beginning to cover city break
DDown 1:	Light entertainment for 10 in play
DDown 2:	Hurdle in Fenchurch
DDown 3:	Patron to trail round the poles
DDown 5:	Charge for accommodation under hill 4
DDown 6:	Edited text about traveller without inhibitions
DDown 7:	Drink suggests cunning ways to get into skirt
DDown 8:	Marker of time, wearing no monocle, it not all there
DDown 13:	"Number needing help to get up" is the doctor's report
DDown 16:	Solar system receiving gold for the sisters
DDown 17:	Giggle about women, as birds do
DDown 18:	Many have mistaken Lehar for a composer
DDown 19:	Bringing up to run true to form
DDown 20:	Shrill and unrefined, they say, taking care of the Guardian
DDown 23:	The state of the compiler - covered in hair!