The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 21st June 2006

There are 14 across clues and 10 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 21st June 2006. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Old actor put the kibosh on side wall
AAcross 9:	Being completely taken aback, girl admits the sport's attraction
AAcross 10:	Cuts it fine and misses about a million
AAcross 11:	Disturbed night after fellow soldier's return to combat
AAcross 12:	Check duck in bar
AAcross 13:	The corral's shambolic, but from it comes such music
AAcross 15:	5 of villains came down, it's said, over the tracks
AAcross 16:	A French book found in the "Music and Ideas" section	CANDIDE
AAcross 18:	Pet guru Mae delivered from a sticky situation	UPAGUMTREE
AAcross 19:	Common sense from which we are excluded?
AAcross 20:	Past history of nettle rash following slight curve
AAcross 22:	Drop in respect?
AAcross 23:	A point of view not quite on the level
AAcross 24:	"New laid" has been, and can be, refuted
DDown 1:	Journalist unknown, in poverty, reported fights dear to a 6	HACKNEYEDPHRASE
DDown 2:	Fine food old hooligan leader gets in Yorkshire	FLAMBOROUGHHEAD
DDown 3:	Relative grasps the point; cat getting butter would make an earth mover's record
DDown 4:	Note I'd put up following one on church building
DDown 5:	Joke about name of band
DDown 6:	Lover of the 1 put initial A and R in the wrong place
DDown 7:	Musician's inner circle, frantically busy, get to drink at the charity event	BRINGANDBUYSALE
DDown 14:	Vanishing weathercocks in the city point to extremes of neglect
DDown 17:	Coarse about it being a military expedition
DDown 21:	Sackville-West gets up at 4