The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 24th August 2010

There are 15 across clues and 19 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 24th August 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	A crew carrying cross for 24 down?
AAcross 10:	Service offering visa to cover island capital
AAcross 11:	Spinner's maiden restricting single shows fibre
AAcross 12:	Being English, two figures face to face with church
AAcross 13:	Something funny, perhaps, about wood — so put it on here?
AAcross 14:	Lane hogged by drunk: he's all on his own
AAcross 17:	Some coppers (old Italian)
AAcross 19:	Arrange group
AAcross 20:	Valid claim
AAcross 21:	Drop into open dish (no lid) a type of pasta
AAcross 22:	Loud speaker essential to 18 2
AAcross 24:	One proving superior bringing about reprieval
AAcross 26:	Hearts 18 2
AAcross 28:	See 8
AAcross 29:	Painting showing stock passing backwards through entrance to field
DDown 1:	See 10
DDown 1:	See 10
DDown 2:	See 18
DDown 3:	Very exciting, filthy habit
DDown 4:	Pickled head on stick
DDown 5:	Solution of nitrates present for a boy?
DDown 6:	Show contempt for doppelganger
DDown 7:	Punishment making you smart?
DDown 8:	Flag when down, then fade
DDown 13:	Bottom rock needing bottom wiped
DDown 15:	Sweeping clears gale away
DDown 16:	Leaving seconds, sample vegetable
DDown 18:	Improper, or not essential, to take heed	LISTENTO
DDown 19:	Pretty little individual wearing underwear, hot
DDown 22:	Snack, small, slightly stale beefcake?
DDown 23:	Pompous bore with dull routine sent up
DDown 24:	Poet finds novelist burying his head
DDown 25:	Open road superior to rail
DDown 27:	Crossword setter dropped