The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 15th December 2009

There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 15th December 2009. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	What doctors want to do about women getting 4?	TWOANDTWO
AAcross 10:	Political lady regularly eats at 4
AAcross 11:	United, entering first half of 2-22 down strangely worried
AAcross 12:	Old record of what happens, unoriginally, in case of bad eyesight
AAcross 13:	Some outswing on a dipping ball?
AAcross 14:	They're in the last round, so new boxer strikes out
AAcross 16:	Here understands one way of making 80 divisible by 2 for all time	TWENTYFOURSEVEN
AAcross 19:	Left two little boys in the picture?
AAcross 21:	See 12
AAcross 22:	Bad story related to shellfish
AAcross 23:	See 23 down
AAcross 24:	Gets European articles on a name held by 4
AAcross 25:	Death call backed by skeleton instruments — 12-6, perhaps
DDown 1:	Reported lost sheep, honestly
DDown 2:	Without love and later ecstasy, sex ain't fun; oddly that's the French position	SOIXANTE
DDown 3:	Not counted as a secret?
DDown 4:	Complaints initially a turn-off for sexually active males?	STDS
DDown 5:	Kind of sex that's caught on with nurses — uniformed, at least initially!
DDown 6:	Tiny regulating devices, as vulva operated on by the French
DDown 7:	See 24
DDown 8:	Circle Line for the airport
DDown 14:	Somewhat equally? Exactly
DDown 15:	One in flight from roughly shorn thugs
DDown 17:	Man negotiates road junction, reversing in third!
DDown 18:	Awake by 6.50, when imprisoned by soldiers
DDown 20:	Lots of holes made by doctors?
DDown 21:	Invest in the Borneo uprising
DDown 22:	See 2	NEUF
DDown 23:	Taking out bow and arrow, only half killed a bird