The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Tuesday, 16th June 2020

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 16th June 2020. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Board attached to spring is so long
AAcross 9:	Meal project one's lacking
AAcross 10:	See 26
AAcross 11:	Rather excessive pre-divorce settlement
AAcross 12:	Temperature over Havana is dire
AAcross 14:	Talk on fair's source of illumination
AAcross 16:	Taking lead from a South African (deceased), act like Tarzan
AAcross 18:	Prince and circle not present in penthouse rave
AAcross 21:	One who refuses to snicker out loud at speaker
AAcross 23:	Style for service gets go-ahead
AAcross 24:	Shame about pump or biro
AAcross 26:	Secretive celebrity's large body not evident to viewers
AAcross 27:	Big city, one on western half of Salt Lake	NYASA
AAcross 28:	Like William Wallace's outdated tax, this is complicated
DDown 1:	Related to a clergy member's completed exam
DDown 2:	See 15
DDown 3:	Undaunted, I say 'Fancy Cher coming round!'
DDown 4:	Every sort of grey sensitivity
DDown 5:	Lambert occupies swell place to sleep in USA
DDown 6:	Lacking a posh girl's traditional education? It's not done!
DDown 7:	Beat trio, almost quiet
DDown 13:	It currently makes western Scotland more temperate
DDown 15:	Tabloid support for south-east Asian inhabitant
DDown 17:	Play the politician, ousting queen
DDown 19:	Drink noisily, tossing off a litre — get up, then stagger
DDown 20:	Gad about, like pirates at sea?
DDown 22:	Almost all wood furniture is from the mountains
DDown 23:	Bullets etc found in moorhen's wings — God!
DDown 25:	Mountain peak cracked by ace climber?
DDown 26:	Does ancient history start after a point?