The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 31st August 2006

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 31st August 2006. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Tick off day when a beautiful creature's around
AAcross 9:	Setter's film about love incapable of the long view
AAcross 10:	Split, not junction, as indicator of staff
AAcross 11:	Magician from 1 or 16 and from 2 and 21	WIZARDOFOZ
AAcross 12:	Numbered equipment for little beast
AAcross 14:	Rome's Rome, possibly, not English as she was in 18 19	MRSMOORE
AAcross 15:	Cold food - pray to follow, say?
AAcross 17:	Ken's spring exam?
AAcross 20:	Setter treats himself to new beginning in opera	IDOMENEO
AAcross 22:	Transporter on holiday?
AAcross 23:	Baker to friends, with Southern general North in records	CANDLEENDS
AAcross 24:	A hyperbolic function is a blunt instrument
AAcross 25:	Glass paper?
AAcross 26:	Changing gear after short distance at the wheel?	INCHARGE
DDown 1:	Queen of the South?
DDown 2:	Comment of friend on the web
DDown 3:	West Indies lives twice where losing is impossible	WINWIN
DDown 4:	Rootstock is where rye 'angs out, they say
DDown 5:	Friend entertaining relations to a heavenly meal
DDown 6:	Corresponding with doctor, trademark in house unfinished
DDown 7:	Energy of Spanish and Babylonian towns
DDown 13:	New pictures of team without a poem in lake	TATEMODERN
DDown 16:	Capital near 24, possibly
DDown 18:	Book has a bad French translation done by an idiot ...	APASSAGE
DDown 19:	See 18	TOINDIA
DDown 21:	... and the return of the last chamois	DRAZIZ
DDown 22:	Split piece with second piece split
DDown 24:	Fruit with pincers