The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 2nd February 2018

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 2nd February 2018. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Padding taken advantage of by such relaxed solvers?
AAcross 9:	Who idly views analysis aid number two — "full of cheap rubbish"
AAcross 10:	Leave genetic material to regress after sulphur hazard
AAcross 11:	Court crime officer is after "Cat", once a champion driver	TIGERWOODS
AAcross 12:	Top content of rookery?
AAcross 14:	Stitched up, confess to taking in lines
AAcross 15:	Declare it's correct to switch first and third
AAcross 17:	Deposit unwelcome from this main fool
AAcross 17:	Deposit unwelcome from this main fool
AAcross 20:	Re-engineering basics when returning x-coordinate
AAcross 22:	See 9
AAcross 23:	Philosopher's permit is useless outside Channel Isles
AAcross 24:	See 2
AAcross 25:	See 1
AAcross 26:	Lift to reveal cracks
DDown 1:	Chartreuse, drunk by wrong set, is object of a pirate's dig?
DDown 2:	It provides proof of ace group of detectives attending sports event
DDown 3:	Female player's cause
DDown 4:	Soldier's round embedded in battleaxe
DDown 5:	Director of 20, covering society (South-east)
DDown 6:	Hidden optical faculty all used up?
DDown 7:	Opposition chiefly to bench aid was misplaced
DDown 13:	See 8
DDown 16:	Domino cut by half-opened scissors, ones on the extreme right?
DDown 18:	At the end of the day, it's viewed as wealth so wasted	LATESHOW
DDown 19:	See 7
DDown 21:	Rag Maureen immersed in stream
DDown 22:	Incomplete design made by baby's feet?
DDown 24:	See 10