The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 19th December 2003

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 19th December 2003. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Recorder nearly set about cheat
AAcross 4:	Indicate a rough measure
AAcross 9:	Scene: boozer - Gere playing a skinflint	EBENEZERSCROOGE
AAcross 10:	In the latrine, thermometer is lower
AAcross 11:	Kindly person to see
AAcross 12:	Bone in the doctor's fish?
AAcross 14:	Beads in a sorry state
AAcross 15:	Leaves flanking old game
AAcross 18:	Following light raise beat softly
AAcross 21:	Bareheaded, going after crooked horse
AAcross 22:	Pretext about our lot being in the river
AAcross 24:	What's bestowed on Hood and Thurber, say, in confusion missing the point	BIRTHDAYHONOURS
AAcross 25:	Get less recoil
AAcross 26:	Happened a month back to the Spanish leading lady
DDown 1:	Jeb's cut out part of sentence
DDown 2:	Smuggled companion into farm
DDown 3:	Fantastic sounds of an Eastern marketplace
DDown 5:	Johnny-come-lately means resistance
DDown 6:	Evidence of railroad plant
DDown 7:	Soldier going up-river with a pistol
DDown 8:	Old city feature, a ragamuffin
DDown 13:	Soft fall?
DDown 16:	Relaxes with a French aroma rising
DDown 17:	Status detailed for substitute
DDown 18:	Look after the ruddy whiskey!
DDown 18:	Look after the ruddy whiskey!
DDown 19:	Dreadful openings to American Westerns - everybody singing open mouthed and enthralled
DDown 20:	Part of Mimi's tra-la-la-ing is bluster
DDown 23:	Many adore a little garlic