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The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 23rd March 2010
There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 23rd March 2010. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Should formation inc­lude leading player who defends?
AAcross 5: Broken and heading for madness, leading player loses Donadoni's backing
AAcross 10: Spooner's heavy step to throw match here?
AAcross 11: "Beautiful game" quoted by leading journalist, referring to Beckham, usually on top
AAcross 12: Miserable outside right is horny beast
AAcross 13: Attack on goal at end of game — it's caught by photographer
AAcross 14: Home matches spoken of by backers
AAcross 16: Boatman! Gerbil-eating outrage!
AAcross 17: Defeat seen on television by right back
AAcross 19: See 10BALLPITCH
AAcross 23: Eye-shadow, rouge and bleached in tips and roots
AAcross 24: Heavy-footed steps, pub­lic transport an afterthought
AAcross 26: Two out of fourteen of Boatman's fixture hopes at first …
AAcross 27: … hosted by other means after Cantona finishes
AAcross 28: "Surveying for First Great Eastern lines," Yeats begins
AAcross 29: They're not paid to report one after the other
DDown 2: Perhaps they favour love among convent's staff
DDown 3: See 25OFTWO
DDown 4: Outside left to cross over to divert shot
DDown 6: Block opening attack, then lash out and start riot
DDown 7: Shifting, sliding as slippery semibreves
DDown 8: Derby's No. 2 confirmed over alternative midfield? Not a pretty sight
DDown 9: Disquisitions degenerate into disasters
DDown 15: Scored vital goal in match? Offside!
DDown 18: A lot of men have little weight to speak of
DDown 20: Cotton on cloth (an alteration)
DDown 21: Leading player, coked-out, missing from action-packed game
DDown 22: See 25
DDown 25: Fool gave West Ham a daft epithetAGAME