The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Monday, 23rd August 2010

There are 14 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 23rd August 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	A learner joins class that's strict
AAcross 5:	Mortality figures are a total write-off	DEADLOSS
AAcross 9:	Everyone is absorbed in the trial case
AAcross 10:	Refuse a stretcher
AAcross 11:	Becoming less friendly, drag warpaint out	DRAWINGAPART
AAcross 13:	Sappers in control of cavalry?
AAcross 14:	Setting for clips or decorations on a nobleman
AAcross 17:	One may feel wrongly persecuted because of it
AAcross 18:	Double act no longer seen
AAcross 20:	A challenging demand
AAcross 23:	A port, half an hour later, shows potency
AAcross 24:	Courtesy of the townsman
AAcross 25:	Extinguishes a candle flame and passes on	SNUFFSIT
AAcross 26:	Port required to finish university course	DIEPPE
DDown 2:	Unfasten the duck cage
DDown 3:	Country professor on staff gets first-class write-up
DDown 4:	General means to establish latitude
DDown 5:	An exact report of the "Three Blind Mice"?	DETAILEDACCOUNT
DDown 6:	Go really wild with "Pilgrim's Progress", for example
DDown 7:	A bulb may be a variety of tulip	LITUP
DDown 8:	The points of savage attacks
DDown 12:	One is apart, possibly result of marital trouble?
DDown 15:	As ordered, one goes in the artillery
DDown 16:	Swindle companies and acknowledges it
DDown 19:	One may be prone to use this, following inflation	AIRBED
DDown 21:	Scoring shot in billiards or from batting cricket side	INOFF
DDown 22:	Tread the stage