The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 21st August 2007

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 21st August 2007. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 7:	Leave Mum in lake and start your verbal sparring
AAcross 8:	Monkey in khaki for training
AAcross 9:	Shaky and seedy from start of week to the middle?
AAcross 10:	Throw over one's sweetheart as a bit of 8?
AAcross 12:	Loose with queasy inside needs to be put together
AAcross 13:	Prize giver concerned with screw
AAcross 14:	Object of cocker (?) to thwart at the 20
AAcross 17:	I should have written "change the book"
AAcross 20:	Company with Thorndike for audience at 25 4
AAcross 22:	Continue with employer turning to setter
AAcross 24:	Fortunate to ....
AAcross 25:	Attempt to muzzle Euphemia would come to the city
AAcross 26:	Boy led by his first ecstasy to be part of 25 12
AAcross 27:	Being so disciplined, we get gold	TWOLEGGED
DDown 1:	Good about new control
DDown 2:	Italian ice cream in the wind?
DDown 3:	Got through old time report
DDown 4:	Sufficient heat remaining to show where 26 may be used
DDown 5:	Author of the 20 shows skill a little way into 10-er
DDown 6:	Shiner to be interrupted by servant
DDown 11:	Slow movement from 25 9
DDown 15:	As a rule, friend pursues alternative nasals
DDown 16:	Turning up with competence on island	ELBA
DDown 18:	Large quantities of punishment
DDown 19:	Skua from Kew has a problem
DDown 21:	Arrive by day, disheartened, to work in 4
DDown 22:	Fairy in the distance raised a lottery
DDown 23:	See 5