The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 11th December 2014

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 11th December 2014. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	502 shillings invested in plant covered the wound
AAcross 5:	A flipping flat-bottomed vessel?
AAcross 9:	West Country town mine, its gold going west?	FROME
AAcross 10:	River, one in West Country town — yes, yes, yes!
AAcross 11:	Hitter, jumper and flier
AAcross 12:	Policeman left inside whales
AAcross 14:	See 22	NAMEISWOMAN
AAcross 18:	Harmless drunk missing wife, figure touring the bogs
AAcross 21:	Advantage held by landed gentry
AAcross 22:	Words from Hamlet confusing family with satyr in the West Country	FRAILTYTHY
AAcross 25:	Cryptically, what might one do with a Cornish pasty and where? That's bliss!
AAcross 26:	Abandoned ship's first to enter West Country town
AAcross 27:	Draw away from Land's End, England trailing rapidly away, Cornwall too, for starters
AAcross 28:	Greek character taking drug with the ability to say "sausages" backwards?
DDown 1:	Imperfection in desert
DDown 2:	Aphrodisiac — it's in the heart, rising
DDown 3:	Meat cutter that's fast and keen I suspect, cook finally put away
DDown 4:	Point about record store
DDown 5:	Opera coming over in doubly twisted old maestro
DDown 6:	Time in West China
DDown 7:	Retro lighter in the toilet resembling member	LAVALAMP
DDown 8:	Currently in office, office in further test
DDown 13:	In some parts of the plant, little troublemaker initially uses insincere praise	SWEETTALKS
DDown 15:	Beneath top of mainmast, cast-iron case for the quarterdeck, perhaps?
DDown 16:	Something dynamic, perhaps, in horribly dire wet bottom?
DDown 17:	Moving out of Paignton?
DDown 19:	Street, then turn for promenade
DDown 20:	Mythical flier, wacky with vulture and raven wings
DDown 23:	Byzantine empress turning up in Tenerife	IRENE
DDown 24:	Not entirely green, a South American capital

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