The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 17th November 2009

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 17th November 2009. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Film valet Valentino sacked	NATIONALVELVET
AAcross 9:	Song and dance about university retirement
AAcross 10:	Flat race leader dropped out of very fast
AAcross 11:	Horse and cart back to front? It’s monstrous
AAcross 12:	Cheese straw’s started to become old hat	SAGEDERBY
AAcross 13:	Passed open hole all right
AAcross 14:	Mongrel incorporating a new genetic variation
AAcross 17:	Party right to the end in Tennessee bar
AAcross 19:	Open club in 2011, if club then not open
AAcross 22:	Fellow in RAF wrote about what he took part in?	WAREFFORT
AAcross 24:	Toke finally taken from joint? Pass on to another
AAcross 25:	Wrong road for the mountain
AAcross 26:	Language from bridge player shortly to end up in one club doubled
AAcross 27:	Very angry son goes off film	BLAZINGSADDLES
DDown 1:	Oddly no new direction for bygone film?
DDown 2:	Bowl along right round North Dakota lake
DDown 3:	Painting interior of woman’s extension
DDown 4:	Hint of troubled soul in LA
DDown 5:	Part of the gay Ovidian’s uphill journey
DDown 6:	Furious little girl wearing hat
DDown 7:	Stores spread around Rome and Pisa, not opening Sundays
DDown 8:	Film girl going up and down rising river on a Chester outing	ADAYATTHERACES
DDown 15:	Roughly a hundred keeping name secret
DDown 16:	Growths worrying Kate and Rose	OAKTREES
DDown 18:	Italian city lights, initially hypnotic
DDown 20:	Disbeliever took the initiative, providing part of UK’s upturn
DDown 21:	Poet no expert in advertising
DDown 23:	Fine hotel for a cat