The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 31st January 2008

There are 17 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 31st January 2008. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Taking hour off, poet runs round Japanese city
AAcross 5:	For "irrigated" read "wet ground"
AAcross 9:	Fool around with language on sticker
AAcross 10:	Grandma is entertained for a month in Israel
AAcross 11:	Round fruitcake served with a fish
AAcross 12:	Film clip's first shown on ferry trip on way back	CRYFREEDOM
AAcross 14:	American university's last lopped tree
AAcross 15:	SR beams?
AAcross 16:	Exercise on bottom	SITUPON
AAcross 18:	Inferior with shoes extremely dirty
AAcross 20:	Play about bird almost seen by an American	CORIOLANUS
AAcross 21:	Small beast in boat
AAcross 24:	Canteen counter provided with articles	NAAFI
AAcross 25:	Historian from Turkey, a penetrating diaris
AAcross 26:	Old poet with sore head writes hospital drama
AAcross 27:	Be prepared for bear getting past
AAcross 27:	Be prepared for bear getting past
DDown 1:	Mess making sense
DDown 2:	Spice more or less swallowed by horse
DDown 3:	Monster undergoing partial inversion
DDown 4:	Rat's nest - or cable tangled in drawer	OSBERTLANCASTER
DDown 5:	Schoolmaster in novel acquires row of desks - so I must be expelled	WACKFORDSQUEERS
DDown 6:	Offer to pay for novice
DDown 7:	Writer making fly croak
DDown 8:	Girl cuts sound of generators
DDown 13:	Lead for Anthony Hopkins - if tortured with red-hot pokers
DDown 16:	Another helping helpers
DDown 17:	Find sovereign in bank
DDown 19:	Led astray in the act like Marvell's mistress
DDown 22:	Turn your head yellow?
DDown 23:	Helen's mother in Swaledale