The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 16th January 2004

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 16th January 2004. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	What could make Pierce Brosnan bristle is what makes double agents bristle - not a lot perhaps
AAcross 9:	Smart clobber from Mike Tyson: Bruno's heartbroken
AAcross 10:	See 9
AAcross 11:	Boat more appropriate for the substance in this privileged vehicle?
AAcross 12:	Cad to refuse evidence of 17s?
AAcross 14:	Opening piece of open flower
AAcross 15:	See 8
AAcross 17:	One not 6 of horse slaughterer exchanging article for duck
AAcross 20:	Half orchestral section's input contrived to blow
AAcross 22:	Playgirl's fiction project passed round	JULIET
AAcross 23:	Description of bap containing Inuit, or Arctic tern, we hear?	ESKIMOROLL
AAcross 24:	Cosmetic surgery - might this get you laid?
AAcross 25:	Muscle again crushing mushroom
AAcross 26:	Unfavourable review of "Road to" movie starring Bing Crosby only?
DDown 1:	Pouting songstress Clark not without love
DDown 2:	See 24 across
DDown 3:	Audition of black horse
DDown 4:	Crime needs time and motive
DDown 5:	From heaven, English pyramid average?
DDown 6:	Having no complaints when circulating, endlessly doing so?
DDown 7:	One refuting the weight of a couturier's work
DDown 13:	Lentil and bean stew on napkins etc
DDown 16:	Game where shape of 3's move overbearing?
DDown 16:	Game where shape of 3's move overbearing?
DDown 18:	Work out tax the Queen's saved
DDown 19:	Wasting of a prize
DDown 21:	Skip a page turned over, referred to many times
DDown 22:	Bird eats prune and banger
DDown 24:	Seasonal slump?