The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 18th December 2013

There are 14 across clues and 10 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 18th December 2013. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Rate it in green
AAcross 9:	See 3	OFSALT
AAcross 10:	Modern and successful city hotel
AAcross 11:	Start to act strangely once seen	SCENEONE
AAcross 12:	Long live the test!
AAcross 13:	Aunt is prim as a result of this
AAcross 15:	Artist picked up according to girl
AAcross 16:	Wine served in cabarets in Amsterdam
AAcross 18:	A toast and thunderous applause starts after Schubert composition
AAcross 19:	Having polished off dregs, drunk daughter's in a state
AAcross 20:	Shiny animated design
AAcross 22:	One by one, outspoken junior medical staff put in prison
AAcross 23:	course
AAcross 24:	Birds fight and have arguments
DDown 1:	The real McCoy
DDown 2:	All nations enlarge
DDown 3:	Lightly seasoned	WITHAPINCH
DDown 4:	Caesar declared this second blot on the landscape
DDown 5:	Warning call from Christian, perhaps?
DDown 6:	Most enthusiastic, like Spooner's cheap crème anglaise	ASKEENASMUSTARD
DDown 7:	Arms and a form of arm support make smooth replacement for 24 leaders	SLINGSANDARROWS
DDown 14:	A jerk leading the Catholic Church?	THEVATICAN
DDown 17:	I don't believe articles first present in robbery
DDown 21:	See 5