The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 1st August 2018

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 1st August 2018. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 7:	Help turned into helping waves
AAcross 8:	Channel something heard well
AAcross 9:	A moonlit romance ultimately makes one thus
AAcross 10:	Declared 48 hours before D-day, what makes privates presentable
AAcross 12:	Going nowhere in commercial break
AAcross 13:	Those against accepting defeat are in the soup
AAcross 14:	Some Laurel and Hardy finally in a fable that's been rewritten
AAcross 17:	Decide about a city in the US
AAcross 20:	The next sound as well is a bird
AAcross 22:	Small dog locker with doubled top
AAcross 24:	Start off continent expedition
AAcross 25:	What covers essay by learner is found
AAcross 26:	Flinch from overflow in cesspit
AAcross 27:	Had search party status evaluated externally
DDown 1:	Cultivated member ate out
DDown 2:	Poor hearing, when one is in the wind
DDown 3:	All-out extremely tight sumo wrestling
DDown 4:	Leaves to set up taxi firm
DDown 5:	Then compete and start to turn red
DDown 6:	Fiendish foxtrot gives way to tango from within
DDown 11:	See 16
DDown 15:	A dreamer with no name is fragrant
DDown 16:	Fancy diet not a cure
DDown 18:	Credit slip uncovered: don't say a word — it's sensitive
DDown 19:	Sun now, then rain
DDown 21:	18 not 51, may be vulgar
DDown 22:	Harsh lectures to the audience
DDown 23:	Evenly and softly to begin with, that's right: not so hard