The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 31st July 2007

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 31st July 2007. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Suggesting face relaxed
AAcross 5:	Opposition tricked into broadcast
AAcross 9:	See 7
AAcross 9:	See 7
AAcross 10:	With oozing centre, European butter	ZIDANE
AAcross 12:	Interior lighting is on and cost's up - amount? No, be prepared!
AAcross 15:	Humiliate with a thump
AAcross 17:	Various old marines following line in mufti, shabby
AAcross 18:	Squealer having framed racketeers, she shifts precious cargo
AAcross 19:	I chewed over a bone
AAcross 20:	Had Belgians (or Bengalis) turned out Asian?
AAcross 24:	Ludicrous car tax - this hanging round your neck?
AAcross 25:	Inertia indeed?
AAcross 26:	Female neighbours bringing disorder
AAcross 27:	Doctor set compass to find distance
DDown 1:	Stage is left to Russian leader, under a man of law
DDown 2:	Sacred instrument found in bin, broken, with glue regularly applied
DDown 3:	Lick around small animal
DDown 4:	Constant puffing - evidence of frantic cycling?	CHAINSMOKING
DDown 6:	Crooked Irish hat about right as penitent's garment
DDown 7:	Easy clue - "Free meat?"
DDown 8:	Wet pot
DDown 11:	Silver 5 across, perhaps, joins about 50 shades	ROLLERBLINDS
DDown 13:	See 12
DDown 14:	Frustration, as Bunthorne's bride introduces herself
DDown 16:	Leading poet's written about love that is on the bed
DDown 21:	Design takes month, with gold
DDown 22:	Passage from Tosca, mainly fiddle
DDown 23:	Drop nothing?