The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 1st January 2010

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 1st January 2010. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	"Three swans" is one of the answers
AAcross 5:	But some of these are Downs
AAcross 10:	What a doctor does with pins
AAcross 11:	Familiar name for the stern — um!
AAcross 12:	This apple is partly Russian and French
AAcross 13:	Force through a transport merger
AAcross 14:	It shows the cricket score daily
AAcross 16:	Pale interest
AAcross 17:	A prince's badger
AAcross 19:	Measure a plot
AAcross 23:	One who promised too much?
AAcross 24:	Close finish
AAcross 26:	Titleholders?
AAcross 27:	Benefit from a gin cocktail
AAcross 28:	Town where the Royals are at home
AAcross 29:	People who trouble me least
DDown 2:	God of the planets
DDown 3:	Tribal inheritance sounds like Levi's
DDown 4:	Judge deciding on lost tribe in Arabia
DDown 6:	I've no answer! I'm all over the place
DDown 7:	Place for ashes in the garden?
DDown 8:	Study a gospel land
DDown 9:	Line taken by southern city dwellers
DDown 15:	Set aside, like a scabby cob
DDown 18:	Fatty pie made with soda
DDown 20:	Covers each territory abroad
DDown 21:	They help to raise kids
DDown 22:	Warmer and dry in appearance
DDown 25:	Get a number