The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 5th October 2016

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 5th October 2016. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Ultimately deficient stock gets one worker begging
AAcross 6:	Huge online artwork?
AAcross 10:	Lightweight directors from company set it back
AAcross 11:	Move family's boundary marker
AAcross 12:	Bad soldier stops officer in charge retiring — it doesn't make sense
AAcross 13:	Axe short tree trunk, one overshadowed by tree
AAcross 14:	Commonly a chain letter — I define it differently	THEINDEFINITE
AAcross 17:	Opportunists, possibly, those grasping Persians
AAcross 21:	Matched question put in to worry journalist
AAcross 22:	Immovable barrier straddled by a six-footer
AAcross 24:	Broadcast appears over and over again
AAcross 25:	Villain in white van keeps coming round
AAcross 26:	Welsh representation in Midlands town
AAcross 27:	A gem of a game?
DDown 1:	Hearts lost to Jesus in, for example, part of church
DDown 2:	"Climbing record broken by English team" — small picture feature
DDown 3:	Victims of WW1 the result of power station closure?	LOSTGENERATION
DDown 4:	See 14
DDown 5:	Destructive force moving mountains? No, no!
DDown 7:	Holy Joe restricting foul crone's base benefit
DDown 8:	Declared source of funding for EU members	CZECHS
DDown 9:	Recording to cover item put on by gents after game	SHOOTINGJACKET
DDown 15:	Support train loses time taking 100 aboard
DDown 16:	Weariest jockeys, in a way
DDown 18:	Constant truncated, presumably
DDown 19:	This may bore lawman caught up in affray
DDown 20:	Such words are equivocal, as wife takes stand
DDown 23:	Wartime show mounted to conceal a fiddle