The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 18th February 2004

There are 12 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 18th February 2004. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 4:	18's venerable Ulsterman getting on amid artistic nihilism
AAcross 6:	Report of eyeglass belonging to monk
AAcross 9:	18's gold-backed tooth (detail)	ROMOLA
AAcross 10:	Burlesque with outlets for game
AAcross 11:	18's sailor's first off - first sails off	SILASMARNER
AAcross 15:	6's bird's opposite number
AAcross 17:	See 4	DERONDA
AAcross 18:	Earth or horse? (Reactionary Labour writer)
AAcross 22:	18's first lady outside the border	ADAMBEDE
AAcross 23:	18's heart needing 20 hearts
AAcross 24:	Copper under training in a line from the kitchen
AAcross 25:	Plant or horse for 22
DDown 1:	Don't keep us in the dark: it's Earth
DDown 2:	Message about ruler to go up: no 37.5p licence fee was needed
DDown 3:	Equivocator gets change through being put out
DDown 4:	The Queen is in the joint, scoffing
DDown 5:	Unidentified beast with no head in place of monster
DDown 7:	18's so-called happy man at home on the river
DDown 8:	Sad end of 18's workplace on the river
DDown 12:	In Welsh mouths, not English, second people on the run
DDown 13:	One French and several German children are not so gentle
DDown 14:	Norman style leader	HARTNELL
DDown 16:	Nurse goes round African country, being of no fixed abode
DDown 19:	You need to ride craftily to manage a title
DDown 20:	French boy for Mother Church?
DDown 21:	Vocation in 18's scenic book