The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 21st October 2003

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 21st October 2003. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Pointless crazy smile at museum's wanton destruction
AAcross 10:	Dean loses head over another girl	ELLIE
AAcross 11:	League tables of art work in grammar school
AAcross 12:	Low road taken by body-liner	LARWOOD
AAcross 13:	Project of former politician
AAcross 14:	Dutch Courage?
AAcross 15:	Start in edited passage
AAcross 17:	Gettin' a lift in Hertfordshire	HITCHIN
AAcross 19:	Manual delivery?	MAILEDFIST
AAcross 22:	Time taken by mountain to turn into level ground ...
AAcross 23:	... a large area and not with people
AAcross 24:	Setter's function, one given to deceive
AAcross 26:	Maiden could be better without one
AAcross 27:	Grade one hit could arise from it	RIGHTIDEA
DDown 1:	Poem in neat Milton fashion, but cloying	OVERSENTIMENTAL
DDown 2:	Curse articles leading to a degree
DDown 3:	Curse with 8
DDown 4:	A girl to beat vigourously, perhaps
DDown 5:	Eric Walker?
DDown 6:	Confirms findings of Goldilocks	BEARSOUT
DDown 7:	Next to nothing in offertory tray to begin with
DDown 8:	Could the ladder need an operation with these?	NEEDLEANDTHREAD
DDown 16:	Their leader after Tories unfortunately lost one given to body building
DDown 17:	Hangs about - it's unusual by the sea
DDown 18:	One's inclined to conceal internal ailments
DDown 20:	Land of serial disruption
DDown 21:	They pretend to be ascetics out East
DDown 25:	Exercise with it in Chatham