The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 31st October 2006

There are 17 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 31st October 2006. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Good memory required by opera house producing the Ring?
AAcross 5:	Bird almost right by vessel
AAcross 9:	Letters somewhere in Brazil after delivery
AAcross 10:	Creep to a back yard
AAcross 11:	Cotton on a stick
AAcross 12:	Entire term wasted in seclusion
AAcross 14:	A complaint by one relative of guinea pig
AAcross 15:	Saint Benny?
AAcross 16:	To enthral a malicious woman we held back
AAcross 18:	One's cold to walk over
AAcross 18:	One's cold to walk over
AAcross 20:	Chap engaged in battle with Denmark, Sweden, Norway etc
AAcross 21:	Pugilist knocking out unknown South African
AAcross 24:	New tulip bulb may be	LITUP
AAcross 25:	Dig up only half? That's weird
AAcross 26:	True as scripture
AAcross 27:	Breathtaking passage under a bridge
DDown 1:	Sensitive area gynaecologist's first to see	GSPOT
DDown 2:	Expulsion got us in trouble
DDown 3:	Fur from an emporium in Knightsbridge
DDown 4:	Novel format for TS Eliot, though he is novel	TOTHELIGHTHOUSE
DDown 5:	Prolix speech before 1912?	TALKINGNINETEEN
DDown 6:	See 5	TOTHEDOZEN
DDown 7:	He has an objective - to go round a city in California
DDown 8:	Grand railway starts to provide trains working with gas
DDown 13:	Slapstick item in sad picture isn't right
DDown 16:	Is clumsy butcher first with entrails?
DDown 17:	Churchill gains a lot of weight	WINSTON
DDown 19:	Someone else on a roundabout before the ride starts
DDown 22:	Majestic poem or the reverse
DDown 23:	Sportsmen who are paid for writing? Not quite