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The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 4th August 2017
There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 4th August 2017. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Curly veg, if sound, consumed as religious rule
AAcross 6: Month, bleak and damp, turning summery?
AAcross 10: Underground, is it? Or time to take a taxi?
AAcross 11: Serious writer's concession: a little comedy in the gaps
AAcross 12: Is youngster fit for this culture at the Met?
AAcross 13: Gradually chip away tons in a space of time
AAcross 14: School being over, sister hugs Mark, college championMAGNUSCARLSEN
AAcross 17: Goodness masking evil: example that may be handed to you on a plate
AAcross 21: Trumpeter's burst stomach
AAcross 22: Country houses a small river flowing into a big one
AAcross 24: Fitness fanatic making one change — one'll get rid of bad influences
AAcross 25: At start of intifada, gunmen question one Arab
AAcross 26: Spread a little butter on end of slice
AAcross 27: Chief exec engages 14's predecessor to travel back with minimum staffMANANDDOG
DDown 1: Vessel with some honey in crypt
DDown 2: Leah's dad gives dog a name
DDown 3: Always the same suit fabric? That's a 9PERPETUALCHECK
DDown 4: Killer I see reported going to block at Stonehenge for execution
DDown 5: Authorise me to return pawn, not so important after the opening
DDown 7: How Wordsworth saw a crowd in a high-rise long ago
DDown 8: See 23
DDown 9: 3, for example, finally getting a job?
DDown 15: Playing, I ought to win from the start, but give upGOWITHOUT
DDown 16: Going to get architect for nothing, making hard grind
DDown 18: American native suggests a pseudonym for Eliot?
DDown 19: A lot of beer consumes dole money in rough bar
DDown 20: 4 the record, holding empty luggage out
DDown 23: Mad stranger turns out to be 14, for example