The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 23rd December 2010

There are 16 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 23rd December 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Man of words caught in entrance wearing long pants?
AAcross 4:	See 1
AAcross 9:	Cardinal supplied a lot of light gas in cereal for everyone
AAcross 10:	Harpist and painter as parent keeping 6
AAcross 11:	Shakespearean in the orchestra
AAcross 12:	Write study of Ulster in Thackeray's history	PENDENNIS
AAcross 13:	Embittered note about Scots sweetheart to stay
AAcross 15:	Derisive comment on brute eating his head	YAHBOO
AAcross 17:	Look at fellow during shuteye, say?
AAcross 19:	Polish part of Hungarian city backed with sound of drum
AAcross 22:	Old musical student at start of play in Liverpool street	LILACTIME
AAcross 24:	No way in which Jeremy has chains
AAcross 26:	The best thing is to get religious fellow elevated
AAcross 27:	King of Wales, abandoning rugby, on direct path that's pointless	CYMBELINE
AAcross 28:	Prize for sexagenarian finding spring in a kiss	BUSPASS
AAcross 29:	Brute when the sheet's turned back?
DDown 1:	Comes from the German saint
DDown 2:	Cocoa and chocolate are one originally
DDown 3:	Devotee of Verdi etc: if with article, of Pergolesi?	OPERABUFF
DDown 4:	Container of tea drunk by kangaroo on its way?
DDown 5:	1 4's pet pig swallowing first of drugs, ecstasy	HODGE
DDown 6:	Disposed of round flat note like sisters of chalk cliffs
DDown 6:	Disposed of round flat note like sisters of chalk cliffs
DDown 7:	Devotee of nature creating hell among teachers
DDown 8:	Dickensian number from Orange?
DDown 14:	Use Jewish number 50 as coalition's new model?	JOHNLEWIS
DDown 16:	1 4's 4 down, Jewish majority with one churchman
DDown 18:	Old copper leaves epic: coppers need muscle
DDown 19:	Borders capturing man in place of jackdaw
DDown 20:	1 4's presenter to cry up source
DDown 21:	Month's shortly up: cover with extraordinary protection	FLUJAB
DDown 23:	4 across playing Alice?	CELIA
DDown 25:	Narcotic work I take with hesitation

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