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The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 24th November 2005
There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th November 2005. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 9: People on drug, which is backed
AAcross 9: People on drug, which is backed
AAcross 10: Board involved in European agreements?
AAcross 11: Store taken over, perhaps needing some investmentSAFEWAY
AAcross 12: Side roads taken in reverse after car fails to start
AAcross 13: Sound of setter suddenly flaring up?
AAcross 14: Spoon mixes in all cod amid awful smellBILLANDCOO
AAcross 16: Gerald Ford initially upset with the standard of socialism
AAcross 17: Church hides almost entire collection of birds' eggs
AAcross 19: Offensive urchin retreats when drunken sailor in pursuit
AAcross 22: Irish sauce?
AAcross 24: Slow to mop up river in toilet
AAcross 25: Restaurant where youngster's after some baked beans, possibly
AAcross 26: Some odds never to back?
AAcross 27: Pronouncement about servicemen's command
DDown 1: When turned over, slowing of engine keeps potential killer under a hundred or rising, you revealedCROSSWORDSOLVER
DDown 2: Criminals were quick to climb this, but not to descend from it
DDown 3: Medieval instrument in Wham's "Fantastic"
DDown 4: Fish good with two others
DDown 5: Particular dock?
DDown 6: Climber given unknown wine to drink when climbing, gulping oxygen
DDown 7: Reportedly, open prison for dining out
DDown 8: "I am inferior to noble", end of catchy songEARLYONEMORNING
DDown 15: Elderly preparation from spray of nebuliserBLUERINSE
DDown 17: Opportunist youth's heading for court
DDown 18: A rat leading its relatives the last first, it's learned
DDown 20: Very much sooner
DDown 21: Discussion of sex is beneath a programme
DDown 23: Irish rap?