The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 26th May 2005

There are 16 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 26th May 2005. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Somewhere in existence is a name
AAcross 5:	Drake, possibly one getting on after very gutlessly grabbing duck
AAcross 9:	Vessel's got a new number one - prepare to be sick!
AAcross 10:	Perennial time to storm with anger, being incontinent
AAcross 11:	Like a lifeline that ended up as a button
AAcross 12:	Size up a house plant?
AAcross 13:	Port (Shanghai) fabricates houses
AAcross 15:	Smuggler from isle (Lewis, say)
AAcross 18:	The dreary stirring to make powdered food palatable?
AAcross 19:	Ballet dancer kicking out left pin
AAcross 21:	Money gets round Irish lad
AAcross 23:	Makes blue films' actors "non-operational"	CASTSDOWN
AAcross 25:	Shirley secure in historic area of Dublin?	TEMPLEBAR
AAcross 26:	Term applied to eastern food outfit backed by Ford name
AAcross 27:	Tom, on date, sought sexual contact in public
AAcross 28:	Brummie's very into artist once worshipped by Rome
DDown 1:	Hospital started during Depression is finished
DDown 2:	Found bliss at the time going dancing
DDown 3:	Name the indefinite Spanish article	ETHEL
DDown 4:	He's set for a long spell as an upstanding native of South America
DDown 5:	Small bottle holding the last of Spirit of Life
DDown 6:	Audrey's excursion with Ron is not seasonal
DDown 7:	Clothes don't lie
DDown 7:	Clothes don't lie
DDown 8:	Energy-producing device player of Egyptian god employed
DDown 14:	Lion tamer together with poor loser strangling head of circus	ANDROCLES
DDown 16:	Mere mortals about to go wild for Norwegian spinner
DDown 17:	Virgin takes delivery of foreign magazine
DDown 18:	Like a Dalek's pinch of the ear
DDown 20:	Bush's networking set-up to beat Osama finally
DDown 22:	What many people call their country cooking: yellowish, mushy, rather unappetising starters
DDown 23:	Raised to a higher power, like sugar used to be
DDown 24:	Fabric occupied a building

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