The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 21st April 2009

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 21st April 2009. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Step outside a lot of rich people
AAcross 5:	Pitiful affair of the quiet musketeer
AAcross 9:	Remove my blindfold for a consideration	LETMESEE
AAcross 10:	More work for adults covered by posh headgear
AAcross 12:	Trainer retaining Piggott — non-starter — one doesn't want too much of this
AAcross 15:	Cantonese?
AAcross 17:	To give radical treatment maybe I should abandon our protein	ROOTPRUNE
AAcross 18:	Worker working on musical show nearly backed another
AAcross 19:	Vision may be jolly
AAcross 20:	Being no crank, I need no one else to get me going
AAcross 24:	There's never anything fresh in the system
AAcross 25:	Fine work horse reportedly European without monarch
AAcross 26:	There's poor Rodney
AAcross 27:	China also dropped by 22 23
DDown 1:	Warning of accident — hence time taken to catch criminals?	POLICESLOW
DDown 2:	Condescended to, not praised, maybe as Johnson by 4
DDown 3:	Feudal superior for Walloons?
DDown 4:	8 that was 22 23's
DDown 6:	Hill dweller runs away to Bucks, perhaps
DDown 7:	Expect to follow boy in 16 for 4's name
DDown 8:	How one is on a horse determines the throne
DDown 11:	4 feature forms piers	CROOKEDSPIRE
DDown 13:	Piece of comedy could be a riot in new group	PURGATORIO
DDown 14:	L for your address and phone number?
DDown 16:	Awful snag in politics, so 22 23 gave it up	STANSGATE
DDown 21:	Flying is dreadful
DDown 22:	Spooner's Napoleon X, now a political institution
DDown 23:	See 22	BENN