The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 27th August 2013

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 27th August 2013. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 7:	Moderation, yet Boris might achieve it
AAcross 9:	Maybe a group of bankers all at sea?
AAcross 10:	It's like baking without gas
AAcross 11:	Boy hugs girl in Essex	BILLERICAY
AAcross 12:	Wed without children? Nits!
AAcross 14:	How Rees becomes the foreman?
AAcross 15:	Hide endless Mediterranean island
AAcross 17:	With apprehension of little boys at arm's length
AAcross 20:	Break up with plunge over reflected failure
AAcross 22:	Well this is a bit rich!
AAcross 23:	Where to get off colour in cloth	GILLINGHAM
AAcross 24:	Ineffectual character died with a short prayer
AAcross 25:	Insect let out another
AAcross 26:	Encounter that's not just pettish?
DDown 1:	You can't Adam and Eve it!	PORKYPIE
DDown 2:	Architect seen to be right in new erection
DDown 3:	College accommodates a large number here in Gloucestershire	KEMBLE
DDown 4:	Spring flower Spooner calls unadorned misery
DDown 5:	Tories rise to be sprayed with spit
DDown 6:	Something quite clear can easily become mysterious
DDown 8:	Shout with painful cry and colour
DDown 13:	Tories' rule broken, lacking purpose …
DDown 16:	… thanks to fast party leader with ability
DDown 18:	Military order (excluding front rank) that makes sense
DDown 19:	It helps to do them wrong
DDown 21:	One grows up and blooms
DDown 22:	Where one lives without a good reverence for one's superior?
DDown 24:	Something raised short of a bloomer