The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 23rd May 2007

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 23rd May 2007. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Fortunate to be up and about more?
AAcross 5:	One called to lay on fast food pudding?	MACDUFF
AAcross 10:	State accommodation in neat stone
AAcross 11:	Everlasting cool celebrity on the box?
AAcross 12:	"Shut up", as voiced in Afghanistan	PUSHTU
AAcross 13:	Gambling debts can be plausibly deceptive
AAcross 14:	A danger it constituted for one on stage
AAcross 16:	Contended outright with fever
AAcross 17:	Doctor left in the middle of anxiety
AAcross 19:	English road bending where all go for takeoff
AAcross 23:	Joint assembly holds unexpected vote
AAcross 24:	For local support many find wherewithal to cough up
AAcross 26:	Build-up of gases - perhaps it's about time to clean flue?
AAcross 27:	What trains seldom do, victim of stunted development
AAcross 28:	Rapid transit doesn't start on horseback
AAcross 29:	Christmas perhaps, not beginning of summer in the USA
DDown 2:	There's nothing in a monkey pining
DDown 3:	Top form
DDown 4:	Discourse on old sovereign
DDown 6:	Rouse Scots cry to dismiss London leader?
DDown 7:	Yankee weapon or the European copy
DDown 8:	Former archbishop spoke of a split
DDown 9:	Failing at sport, nameless country gives rise to complaint among the older generation
DDown 15:	It warms one, getting extra lunch
DDown 18:	Food for simpletons
DDown 20:	Shore up collapse underground - he was there
DDown 21:	Master spy taken in battle
DDown 22:	Song and dance these days
DDown 25:	Occupational disease caught from a metallurgist?