The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 25th November 2004

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 25th November 2004. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Tell all you feel before surgery	OPENHEART
AAcross 10:	They say you are further up the heap (they say)
AAcross 11:	Fresh out of clothes?
AAcross 12:	Appropriate epithet for flatulence, not all deception
AAcross 13:	Interrupt the cricket and stay for the night
AAcross 14:	Search area for Scarlet Pimpernel
AAcross 15:	Our slum is inclined to founder
AAcross 17:	Rough cover for chimney
AAcross 19:	New rifle with new trigger put in to furnish partner
AAcross 22:	See 13
AAcross 23:	Live like this, backing into horse and its food supply
AAcross 24:	Performed by singers restraining novice with a sedative
AAcross 26:	Cuban flourished without fish	FIDEL
AAcross 27:	Taint that's beneath notice, possibly
DDown 1:	Imported eggs move slowly during prohibition that's lifted from dish	BOEUFSTROGANOFF
DDown 2:	Space for the others to 13 22 here?
DDown 3:	Detective offers security to player	SHER
DDown 4:	Islands where sickness decreases rapidly?
DDown 5:	Thespian, probably old, as male monarch
DDown 6:	The speaker covering your eyes from behind maybe owes hugs	GUESSWHO
DDown 7:	Cooking recipe - use skewer?
DDown 8:	Smart boy and girl alight on dish	CHICKENMARYLAND
DDown 16:	Mutineer decapitated in elevator needs help to survive
DDown 16:	Mutineer decapitated in elevator needs help to survive
DDown 17:	Restraint is a blow to a worker
DDown 18:	Electricity supply makes Scouse bird suffer	LIVERAIL
DDown 20:	Desire terribly half the above
DDown 21:	The girl in the electricity supply?	INGRID
DDown 25:	See 3