The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 7th October 2008

There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 7th October 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Pain conveyed to the audience by playwright	AYCKBOURN
AAcross 6:	Can move around
AAcross 8:	Old woman takes lift from time to time
AAcross 9:	Risk going out with extremely tiddly girl	KIRSTY
AAcross 10:	Writer holding court in a study regularly	ATWOOD
AAcross 11:	Apparatus signalling abuse of a steroid
AAcross 12:	Superior rating given to the "Black Horse"
AAcross 15:	One with a big gob, perhaps, ordered pints when excessively drunk
AAcross 16:	Fish with spinning flies somewhere in Lancashire	GARSTANG
AAcross 19:	Tuck into pudding at hermitage
AAcross 21:	Probably halfasleep, a yokel isn't stirring	ASLIKELY
AAcross 22:	Setter's a dog - a point to challenge?
AAcross 24:	Number one tube network in old city
AAcross 25:	See 7
AAcross 26:	See 3
AAcross 27:	I'm a cement mixer that's been given the chop
DDown 1:	See 21	ASNOT
DDown 2:	Forgive prisoner that's cheated
DDown 3:	Hippy woman lit up
DDown 4:	Displays frisky fun in online locations?
DDown 5:	Seriously, it's what nanny's done if young ones don't show up	NOKIDDING
DDown 6:	Deal with irritated solicitor's report
DDown 7:	Hippest chocolate spread outside Italy? Need you ask?	ISTHEPOPE
DDown 13:	Bread-and-water restaurant
DDown 14:	Caught odd instrumental set piece?
DDown 17:	Timothy follows this around in a biblical wood
DDown 18:	Okaying chart-topper for the King, reworked by Elton John?	GAYICON
DDown 20:	First-class hotel ruined as rising river breaks in
DDown 22:	See 3	INTHE
DDown 23:	Sparkle briefly during eight-nil going over