The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Monday, 26th September 2011

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 26th September 2011. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 7:	Adopt self-regulating volume control
AAcross 8:	She's a mother twice over
AAcross 9:	Silence on reform shows lack of respect
AAcross 10:	Quietly departed with the silver
AAcross 12:	Leading lady cut short with smack
AAcross 13:	Regular correspondence between sides
AAcross 14:	It's normally kept by the fireplace or sink
AAcross 17:	Show anger in hair-raising fashion
AAcross 20:	Keep small cash book
AAcross 22:	Capital — the big smoke?
AAcross 24:	Cultivated Scandinavian
AAcross 25:	Takeover bid made by the committed buyer	FIRMOFFER
AAcross 26:	Nobleman about fifty-odd
AAcross 27:	Lacking a cryptic clue? It's not important
DDown 1:	Make sharp attack upon Reformed Church
DDown 2:	Was prominent among those who refused to yield	STOODOUT
DDown 3:	Humble cleric embraced me
DDown 4:	Body found in the motorist's boot, perhaps
DDown 5:	False alibi initially excluded by Scottish magistrate
DDown 6:	Poem completed but not written down
DDown 11:	Ancient mariner's story upset Arab prince
DDown 15:	Capsized oarsman in vessel is in distress
DDown 16:	The attraction of misrule
DDown 18:	The purpose of the visor is to avoid humiliation	SAVEFACE
DDown 19:	Doctor liaised for sitting clergy
DDown 21:	Cut lumber
DDown 22:	Fashionable doctor caught in embrace? That's sweet!
DDown 23:	Has it a piercing eye? Quite the opposite