The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 1st January 2016

There are 15 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 1st January 2016. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	National articles (including a series of letters)
AAcross 5:	Said to hitch up with the enemy of the sea
AAcross 9:	Bird has no energy to collect dole money for the landlord
AAcross 10:	Read about redhead getting tough
AAcross 11:	Good or bad, sits a plant
AAcross 13:	Not in favour of Ain't Misbehavin’
AAcross 14:	Porter back in speed move
AAcross 17:	The odds on awful scoop splashed out in the paper
AAcross 17:	The odds on awful scoop splashed out in the paper
AAcross 18:	God of generosity
AAcross 20:	What makes Bunny buy into pretentious behaviour?
AAcross 23:	Not half kick, my chilli pickles
AAcross 24:	Fast harmful drugs here
AAcross 25:	A single ship? That's a joke
AAcross 26:	European leader to disappear a hundred times
DDown 2:	What's better than a full house as cause for reform?
DDown 3:	Keeps register to put a stop to motion	HOLDSTILL
DDown 4:	Fine point of Germanic etymology
DDown 5:	Order to pen rap music part here	MANUSCRIPTPAPER
DDown 6:	Roguish partner chasing roguish cars
DDown 7:	Ultimately slept with family member to be provocative
DDown 8:	A communist uprising blocks proposal for temperance
DDown 12:	Hotel needs hand in development
DDown 15:	Perhaps bishop with cold mouth and nose first to catch dreaded disease
DDown 16:	Stinger capable of releasing poison? It's often nasty to begin with
DDown 19:	Vulgar criminal Blair indicted at last
DDown 21:	Be good when 40, as they say
DDown 22:	See 2