The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 2nd September 2015

There are 15 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 2nd September 2015. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 7:	12 across in curried food business
AAcross 8:	Lionel, a hot favourite at Christmas?
AAcross 9:	Deal here in broken toys
AAcross 10:	See 2	THEROMANS
AAcross 12:	An expert in the gymnasium?
AAcross 13:	It helps feet go on platforms
AAcross 15:	Two elements essential to our existence (and to 16 across?)
AAcross 16:	Queen may, we hear, be confused with 8	BRIAN
AAcross 17:	A girl, not a son? I'm not happy about that
AAcross 18:	Brief order to stop working
AAcross 20:	Savages bad housing that holds area back
AAcross 21:	See 2	DONEFORUS
AAcross 22:	Expected learner to get to the end of Pushkin
AAcross 24:	Paul had one for 10
AAcross 25:	B___ awful noise made by group together
DDown 1:	Home adopted by the Guardian
DDown 2:	Excuse me? Did some old people at any time cause our ruin? That's a funny revolutionary line	WHATHAVE
DDown 3:	Feel shame, seeing horse in pen
DDown 4:	Obliged to look over opponents
DDown 5:	A short clever answer is capital
DDown 6:	Bog briefly venerated by 10
DDown 11:	Drink while young — make mine purer when brewed	ENPRIMEUR
DDown 12:	Sit, keeping one's balance
DDown 14:	A part of Norfolk that's not British
DDown 16:	Firm moves into sort of market with no room left
DDown 17:	A line abandoned by Europe, avoided in hearing
DDown 19:	To remove electrons from position is easy
DDown 20:	What hurts me in Indian city
DDown 21:	Patsy's English, looked down on by Irish party
DDown 23:	See 2