The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 24th August 2017

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th August 2017. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Actor grabs at model
AAcross 9:	A fair land
AAcross 10:	Actor on rich food regimen
AAcross 11:	Execrable starter in kebabs and processed food from cans	BAKEDBEANS
AAcross 12:	Actor Bardot's odd characters?	BRANDO
AAcross 14:	Like a simple tune? Wrong actor
AAcross 15:	How solid is refuse around squat?
AAcross 17:	Actor not vacuous, sweet
AAcross 20:	Actor punched by a clergyman
AAcross 22:	Actor after small slipper for Father Christmas?
AAcross 23:	Wonderful outstanding actor beginning in theatre, Italian
AAcross 24:	See 2
AAcross 25:	Put down setter, entertained by actor
AAcross 26:	Lincolnshire town actor, overactor?	GRANTHAM
DDown 1:	Crack big, but not black, with deeper descent
DDown 2:	Culprits thrown out, lock flat?
DDown 3:	In leaving child, love hollow stuff
DDown 4:	Hungry like an actor?
DDown 5:	Dance cool and bursting with energy
DDown 6:	Teams go off riding in unorthodox manner
DDown 7:	Heart of course absent in Scent of a Woman	CHANEL
DDown 13:	Snoop or pry and sneak off
DDown 16:	Instruction leaflet ultimately wet
DDown 18:	One inspired by high earning African
DDown 19:	Knock top prize money
DDown 21:	Antique possessed by female actor
DDown 22:	Deep wound reported as plank sat upon
DDown 24:	Musical — characters associated, primarily, with Eliot