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The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 18th November 2011
There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 18th November 2011. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Private school head's not initially remote
AAcross 5: Luggage carrier, originally from vehicle back into castle
AAcross 9: Increase number in layer
AAcross 10: A display of inexperience after cancelled service? Hatchback is deadly
AAcross 11: Tool returning chez Dad for a bit
AAcross 12: Downpour (cf. spurt)
AAcross 13: Part of Liverpool 9, sayHUYTON
AAcross 14: New Brighton? Head off about the distance from equator given by grid reference
AAcross 16: Two rock bands of the ’70s, one halving drug use, take time showing expressiveness
AAcross 19: Threaten to go out with head of government, say
AAcross 21: Soldier's messing about in task
AAcross 23: Some oddities of uncertain recollection
AAcross 24: Almost 5 or 10, with 10 the turning point?
AAcross 25: Informed about husband reportedly drunk in foreign city
AAcross 26: Get rid of black snot I produced
AAcross 27: Foreign agreement embraced by parties in folk dance movement
DDown 2: At first agreed to lug old case round Englishman's castle for PMALECDOUGLASHOME
DDown 3: Eg pork pie given to a model carrying little weight
DDown 4: Eccentric characters mostly surprised by English reserve
DDown 5: Weak summary
DDown 5: Weak summary
DDown 6: Cooked topless when tipsy
DDown 7: Make fresh contact with outreach organisation, after adult goes missing
DDown 8: Old French epic song from one of the Rat Pack?CHANSONDEROLAND
DDown 15: Sort of man that can be relied on to be far from sinister
DDown 17: Band in which piano takes up odd bits of tune
DDown 18: Turncoat's foremost pretext for disloyalty
DDown 20: Walks wearily as a Dickensian in outskirts of Totnes
DDown 22: Vetoes the other trendy set-up