The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Monday, 26th October 2009

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 26th October 2009. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Cross one river with a note
AAcross 4:	One acted in variety show
AAcross 8:	Fast moving drug dealers	SPEEDMERCHANTS
AAcross 10:	Force to put one means of transport before another
AAcross 11:	Very occupied by intimate Japanese cult
AAcross 12:	It's puzzling how gin and it came to be ordered
AAcross 15:	Murphy's pile?
AAcross 17:	Enquire in the backstreet for jobs
AAcross 18:	Succeed in chase
AAcross 19:	Sends away for books
AAcross 21:	Store memoir up in a novel form
AAcross 24:	Adam's apple?
AAcross 25:	Frenzied macho types kept in check
AAcross 26:	City editor taken in by the French
DDown 1:	Rising from the ranks?
DDown 2:	Drinks provided in riotous parties
DDown 3:	The Spanish red rose wine ingredients come from here
DDown 4:	Act I lines sadly lacking in flexibility
DDown 5:	Get down — from this?
DDown 6:	Repeated request for tea dance
DDown 7:	Giant bird on a pole
DDown 9:	Policeman gets a lead on forgers — metalworkers!
DDown 13:	Skinflint having talent for being unhappy
DDown 14:	One in the club has whip-round for cheese
DDown 16:	Property charge
DDown 20:	Took the wheel in a Land Rover
DDown 22:	Waste parts of Cornish river
DDown 23:	The advantage of keenness