The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 27th April 2012

There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 27th April 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Composer starts losing tempo, say, gutted
AAcross 5:	Performers are childless reformers
AAcross 9:	Rare working party piece that's repeated
AAcross 10:	Traditional Gaelic music performed with delay now and then on river	DIDDLYDEE
AAcross 11:	Mercurial character in book: it's set in turbulent Italy
AAcross 12:	Woman doesn't finish change
AAcross 14:	1 across piece, a version of Cinderella, captivates its composer's heart	CLAIRDELUNE
AAcross 18:	An opera is rewritten to include Queen's instrument	SQUAREPIANO
AAcross 21:	Radical Paris edition of the Pink ’Un?
AAcross 22:	Engineer made Freudian slip describing middle of tune, 1 across piece	LAPRESMIDI
AAcross 25:	Steak went off stuffed with duck (extra large)
AAcross 26:	Not as convincing as 1 across piece
AAcross 27:	Played together better stripped — Moore's outstanding
AAcross 28:	Use it to trace letters from angry clients
DDown 1:	Trace source of echo in Verdi orchestration
DDown 2:	British and German article abroad makes a pile
DDown 3:	Initially, stiff drink damages penile extensions?	SPORTSCARS
DDown 4:	This is not art, perhaps — and trained Tyroleans do it
DDown 5:	Check old song picked up in music halls
DDown 6:	Rang, say, and drove home
DDown 7:	Rolls here supported with drink
DDown 8:	Step unsteadily over tiny adult plant
DDown 8:	Step unsteadily over tiny adult plant
DDown 13:	Dragonfly from French-German river I caught
DDown 15:	A very quiet Scottish singer nearly died, clapped out?
DDown 16:	I worried about short solo by daughter, being unaccompanied
DDown 17:	See 22	DUNFAUNE
DDown 19:	Black Magic represented as fast food	BIGMAC
DDown 20:	Irish Republican breaks law over in part of Merseyside	WIRRAL
DDown 23:	Seizes women leaving bars with no music?
DDown 24:	2 of banknotes offering security

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