The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 5th January 2006

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 5th January 2006. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Boatman, say, rejected post
AAcross 9:	Bird understood to be circling five hundred singers of "Jerusalem"
AAcross 10:	Sell out, as it might?
AAcross 11:	Ship opening line
AAcross 12:	Hemingway's last words blown to bits, losing consciousness
AAcross 14:	Dance musical needing no introduction
AAcross 15:	Worth keeping party in mind
AAcross 17:	Perhaps, if user intended to maintain earliest of relationships, he could search here?
AAcross 20:	Easy job to get hold of outside home
AAcross 22:	In Germany, a wrong turning reaches destination to its north
AAcross 23:	Arabs cutting arm, playing around
AAcross 24:	They're close, close to getting top man
AAcross 25:	Sea where river cuts through state
AAcross 26:	Cavalier in solitary, tortured
DDown 1:	Ecstasy on drugs (hard), or lift superb - experiencing this?
DDown 2:	Throw rubbish in it, or miss
DDown 3:	Hole where rodent has it buried
DDown 4:	A pin in both directions round noted direction
DDown 5:	Twice scale up culture medium
DDown 6:	24 acrosses of verse?
DDown 7:	Dramatist's devout emperor	PINERO
DDown 13:	Bad image in witch transformed - with this?
DDown 16:	See 17
DDown 18:	Identify cube divided by a number not written down
DDown 19:	It's plain, anything but 13 involved - with this?
DDown 21:	I fly around British feature on map
DDown 22:	Asian city raising an artist
DDown 24:	Line in clothes - for a Scotsman