The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 27th January 2012

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 27th January 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	It's not cheap to build a monument
AAcross 5:	Sea off Tripoli with a leitmotif?
AAcross 9:	Oddly puts on pretensions of being at a higher level
AAcross 10:	Writer of letters to the Queen?
AAcross 12:	Dances with a shadow minister
AAcross 13:	Each test one plays is artistic
AAcross 14:	Minister the senior service finds dotty, as is the coalition
AAcross 18:	Brief turn by Waller, loud with 12, needing extra hands
AAcross 21:	Digital sketch?
AAcross 23:	Sound of sound poet
AAcross 24:	Fruit may be elevating, though not entirely
AAcross 25:	Red not English, but may be hidden in the closet
AAcross 26:	Tropical ailment?
AAcross 27:	Old college learned about student with several languages
DDown 1:	Caroline's first partner, a man of substance
DDown 2:	Get cosy with a food provider?
DDown 3:	Model raced to practise athletics, maybe train …
DDown 4:	… track for each chap went variably with a variable	PERMANENTWAY
DDown 6:	Former minister seen in the Carlton or the Athenaeum
DDown 7:	Contend with French actor turning up in the distance
DDown 8:	Order heartless lady requires at once
DDown 11:	Molesworth's version of "It is a truth universally acknowledged … ”	ASANYFULEKNO
DDown 15:	Enter scruffy friend without end
DDown 16:	Description of strange coteries?
DDown 17:	Answer for a punctured tyre?
DDown 19:	Arm spoilt in more ways than one?
DDown 20:	Note returned by a cheese-maker
DDown 22:	She's about to live free — or the converse?