The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Monday, 9th June 2008

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 9th June 2008. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Not a complete games player?	THREEQUARTER
AAcross 8:	Commodity extensively used
AAcross 9:	Fully deploying an umbrella, for example?
AAcross 11:	What's enjoyed by a sick celebrity?
AAcross 12:	A purest form of milk results from his work
AAcross 13:	Crest of a game bird having part missing
AAcross 14:	In trouble, but the flag is still flying	UPTHEPOLE
AAcross 16:	Where one may serve oneself tea if care is exercised
AAcross 19:	It is, in fact, a point of view
AAcross 21:	Not a straightforward job for woodworkers
AAcross 23:	Obscure point repeated about prunes
AAcross 24:	Undeterred by sandbank in river
AAcross 25:	Keeps warm and quiet
AAcross 26:	Shakespeare play in its second week
DDown 1:	Dogged, but couldn't keep up with the others
DDown 2:	Desert people engaged in fierce competition
DDown 3:	Former supermarket cashier reportedly in the accounts department
DDown 4:	Make pretence a reality?
DDown 5:	Reproduce and distribute university series
DDown 6:	Attic studio suitable for this Spanish painter?
DDown 7:	I accept order mistakenly went to and fro
DDown 10:	Ideal drawn from the past, grammatically speaking
DDown 15:	Skilled worker and master in reconstruction
DDown 17:	Anticipated war breaking out with foes
DDown 18:	Getting only four in a test is not worth talking about
DDown 19:	Mature fruit getting conventional dressing	FULLFIG
DDown 20:	Shakespeare play house	CAPULET
DDown 22:	Thought I heard a visitor