The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 22nd October 2004

There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 22nd October 2004. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Dolly eats 4, which is almost twenty-six centuries old
AAcross 10:	Finally, gastronome was up for crumble
AAcross 11:	Chiseller thus cuts somebody
AAcross 12:	More jobs, less tax, better services - same (if not radical)
AAcross 13:	During Easter, chaplains not at home, out
AAcross 14:	Room 101 turns into freezing landscapes
AAcross 17:	4 as plane or ship?
AAcross 19:	4 to take the lion's share
AAcross 20:	Worked up, that is, to snare 4
AAcross 21:	4 alongside river during drink gets better
AAcross 22:	4 caught by Malayan knife over in Scotland
AAcross 24:	4 huntin' round university
AAcross 26:	Issue's against image
AAcross 28:	A blemish afoot, which becomes mighty
AAcross 29:	Relatives in salons prepared to head for wigs	SONSINLAW
DDown 1:	Exalted work of 18 becomes junk mail
DDown 2:	Credit is doubled, causing great trouble
DDown 3:	4 cold in the country
DDown 4:	Plate brought up, liver?
DDown 5:	Invert 4/9/500 recurring
DDown 6:	4, note, for meat
DDown 7:	Time 4 constricted by 4 in Africa
DDown 8:	Currency of Europe? Sorry!
DDown 13:	Groups declaring peace
DDown 15:	4 in toilets shaking flap
DDown 16:	6 in small wood
DDown 18:	Cartographer places right 4 in Rome, wrongly
DDown 19:	Covert probing of NHS establishments by the Guardian repeated
DDown 22:	Making noise, soak to absorb bread
DDown 23:	4 destroys itself with phosphorus instead of nitrogen
DDown 24:	4 with arms raised
DDown 25:	Vociferate as runs over 4
DDown 27:	Hood caught 4, or 4 at large?