The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 28th September 2012

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 28th September 2012. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Everyone's in debt when there's a female around — when there's witches around!
AAcross 9:	Everyone's in debt when there's a female around — when there's witches around!
AAcross 10:	Excel, alfresco or not
AAcross 11:	Turn in — more time in suitable chair
AAcross 12:	See 3	ANDBESS
AAcross 13:	Obsolete coin with nothing in it? Precisely
AAcross 14:	Dance scene in 3 12 in case ferryman comes round
AAcross 16:	Compound report of journey in the dark
AAcross 17:	Method of painting sticky stuff sounds a pain
AAcross 19:	I'm calling with a certain qualification	INAMEASURE
AAcross 22:	A lake fed by a river (more like the Dead Sea?)	ARAL
AAcross 24:	Take your place in the distance with return to streaming?
AAcross 25:	Leader of Leeds in the Sun — wrong part of Leeds	HUNSLET
AAcross 26:	Co-author slain horribly around 14
AAcross 27:	Being old, have gun when diamonds are about
DDown 1:	No problem for the vicar, then, in 3 12's 21	THELIVINGISEASY
DDown 2:	Musician to suit change in residence
DDown 3:	17 down's monarchs in 1952?
DDown 4:	Consent to investigation? I don't know	SEARCHME
DDown 5:	Not just brunette?
DDown 6:	V1 causing double trouble in a friend
DDown 7:	Setter's funny way
DDown 8:	Let person open it? Maybe better not	POISONPENLETTER
DDown 15:	Flickers of anger during escape
DDown 17:	Musician to spread her wings?
DDown 18:	See 26
DDown 20:	An aura not born of hostility
DDown 21:	"___ born great", said Malvolio, the mathematician
DDown 23:	Joins scandal up?