The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 28th October 2009

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 28th October 2009. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Duty of extra esteem getting volunteers cross
AAcross 10:	Warm, cold or laid back?
AAcross 11:	City, a New Testament one with old church
AAcross 12:	Strangely divine, holy but not at first outwardly
AAcross 13:	One may catch, say, Labour's blunder on reflection
AAcross 14:	Battle leads English to freedom
AAcross 16:	Republic, as in Roman style
AAcross 18:	Green side can be stimulated
AAcross 19:	Boy leaves sleeper for sweeper
AAcross 20:	Being attractive keeps gunner's daughter matey
AAcross 23:	Second space must …
AAcross 24:	Rude word to finish one's respectful address
AAcross 25:	Inform that paper is folded
AAcross 26:	John Bull's paunch?	MIDDLEENGLAND
DDown 2:	A mere door, perhaps, to higher things?
DDown 3:	Singular name for Diana's sister
DDown 4:	Free puff for a party?
DDown 5:	Gordon almost dead, confused and coerced
DDown 6:	Girl loses head, another gets up to start Bacchus's wild song of praise
DDown 7:	Love morning with the Guardian's appearance
DDown 8:	Without one, little children repeatedly tear loose, out of control
DDown 8:	Without one, little children repeatedly tear loose, out of control
DDown 9:	Where Hamlet slept with no alternative in Somerset?	SHEPTONMALLET
DDown 15:	Inveterate, if erroneous, need to store corn
DDown 16:	Organise messy site clearance
DDown 17:	One solution takes turn for article avoiding the rest
DDown 21:	Plain clothes Muslim lawyer
DDown 22:	Long time and a quarter
DDown 23:	Compiling lapse — a bit of a bloomer