The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 27th May 2008

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 27th May 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Short girl eaten by mole
AAcross 4:	Doing backstroke, swim round lake with fish - such as this
AAcross 9:	Deal with content of briefs
AAcross 10:	Poetess shaves - about time for the queen?	PAMAYRES
AAcross 11:	Upper-class bigot is to peer, roughly, as middle class to lower?
AAcross 13:	Grow to love job as scold
AAcross 14:	Filthy thing close to eye
AAcross 16:	Dud pud
AAcross 18:	Man perhaps not the first, as first man alone describing T-shirt?
AAcross 21:	Actress and comedienne who's accompanied by old brute and old composer	WHOOPIGOLDBERG
AAcross 23:	Compound of nitrates in old boys' network?
AAcross 24:	Fiddle with necktie enough not to be taken seriously
AAcross 25:	Wine dry, though lips not - that is the drink
AAcross 26:	Get plastered on one knee, perhaps
DDown 1:	Place among collector's items
DDown 2:	See 24	INCHEEK
DDown 3:	Ease pain, beginning to pump the contents of my stomach?
DDown 5:	Where fruit's held briefly
DDown 6:	Rush payment
DDown 7:	Character left for holiday destination
DDown 8:	Tragedies making sister sad
DDown 12:	Courage shown before something flagged a shade
DDown 13:	Breaking through layer, early moisture acts oddly - it rises and falls
DDown 15:	Welsh town penniless under English, Lloyd George once held
DDown 17:	Film of the Labour Party between 1980 and 1983?
DDown 19:	Need, when furious, to contain what one loses when so angry
DDown 20:	Note pops up in a column?
DDown 22:	Paddington's stomach