The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 25th March 2009

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 25th March 2009. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Players collectively demolish extra food
AAcross 9:	Old king's literary pseudonym
AAcross 10:	Name of man backing another in Spanish city
AAcross 11:	Solitary types disoriented in chain store
AAcross 12:	Mother has to purchase, we hear, dear kind of fish
AAcross 14:	Fit for match between the Spanish and the French, one great back
AAcross 15:	No real alterations seen in 2, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 19, 22 across and 22 down
AAcross 17:	See 15
AAcross 20:	It's bad, tucking into something to eat — very bad
AAcross 22:	Name Dianne differently	NADINE
AAcross 23:	Scary thing, Frenchman turning on fellow conservative
AAcross 24:	Money deposited in bank safe, but only to begin with
AAcross 25:	Article by informal relative becoming academic text
AAcross 26:	Wrongly removed tube buried in one part of garden
DDown 1:	Direction to slow down tune trio ruined
DDown 2:	New name given Jane, after moving east
DDown 3:	One rule I had set up for Indian festival	DIWALI
DDown 4:	Fearful hen I can, oddly, put in kind of curry
DDown 5:	Stone block with solid middle installed in part of year
DDown 6:	Dainty little daughter covering one leg, as requested
DDown 7:	What Blair became before spring
DDown 13:	Asian citizen I see being mistreated around judge	BEIJINGESE
DDown 16:	Bill that is, over time, providing a crucial check
DDown 18:	Maid of Orleans uplifted, guided and elevated
DDown 19:	See 4
DDown 21:	They are mostly awfully coarse
DDown 22:	Name taken by poet, strangely unread
DDown 24:	See 12