The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 16th August 2013

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 16th August 2013. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Help stomach and bottom line initially coated with blusher, free for all
AAcross 9:	Minor problem with Gents: solver's outside
AAcross 10:	Pit bull terrier (stray one's gone)
AAcross 11:	Nonpareil de Perfide Albion
AAcross 12:	Style of 22, trimming tails to nail lizard by return
AAcross 13:	An awkward niggle surrounds gathering
AAcross 14:	21 (not half) takes tea and cake
AAcross 17:	Coarse content of shoals, in more ways than one
AAcross 19:	Jezebel shorn
AAcross 22:	Bush is one occupying bar stool
AAcross 24:	Lament rejection of where to enter solutions online …
AAcross 25:	… in unpredictable order
AAcross 26:	Clinic ends telecast with "50% reductions for customers"
AAcross 27:	Traditional way of dumping pricey facilities by landlord	DEARJOHNLETTER
DDown 1:	Rowing thus to have begun,Off went the Olympic gun	RHYMINGCOUPLET
DDown 2:	Nice articles written after you heard this country's leading guitar
DDown 3:	Greetings! Glad NHS treatment found in Scotland!
DDown 4:	Pay attention: nobody welcomes the offbeat
DDown 5:	Road junction to which beer enthusiasts return
DDown 6:	I travel to the North from South Island, perhaps
DDown 7:	Crude line art on its wall
DDown 8:	Twice raise the admission to be last in	BRINGUPTHEREAR
DDown 15:	Plenty of cake served in a disco
DDown 16:	Playing "A" strings, possibly scales
DDown 18:	Hot fortnight perhaps on French island?
DDown 20:	Rampant priest penetrates cheeky sexual deviant
DDown 21:	Cowboy recovered from a cough
DDown 23:	Queens provide