The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 5th September 2008

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 5th September 2008. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Pig to catch - run!
AAcross 9:	Sun's reflection of earth - what did you say?
AAcross 10:	See 24
AAcross 11:	Rider after something sticky, oily secretion for sensational feeling	GOOSEBUMPS
AAcross 12:	Top cow
AAcross 14:	Article written in refusal to follow single line on paper
AAcross 15:	Equivalent of a wink, perhaps, eastern state backed, as inoffensive
AAcross 17:	Stalin revolutionised left as Putin taken apart?
AAcross 20:	Bony dead heads of lions, elephants, kangaroos and snakes retrieved
AAcross 22:	Sheep farmer in ovine shackles
AAcross 23:	Internet software for the arachnoid cow?
AAcross 24:	Cow with hunger having bit of bramble, but no starter
AAcross 25:	Regret having swallowed key, seeking release
AAcross 26:	One pulling out the stops, roasting nuts
DDown 1:	Coin for pig
DDown 2:	A place to hide the port
DDown 3:	Awkward group overcoming extremes of lunacy
DDown 4:	Continue asking? Then one gets a flower
DDown 5:	Cow, time and time again, processed as food
DDown 6:	Pig circling cesspool with dog and turtle
DDown 7:	Coin pig, if derogatory
DDown 13:	Pig, rebmucne?
DDown 16:	Element that is keeping caveman in the news?
DDown 18:	Red tinsel in twists	LENINIST
DDown 19:	See 6	OLDSPOT
DDown 21:	Minder raising weapon between kings
DDown 22:	Fashion of major route? Now you see it, now you don't
DDown 24:	Soundly chains cat