The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 12th August 2021

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 12th August 2021. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Thirty seconds initially spent framing paintings of birds
AAcross 5:	Almonds one scattered around mountains produce fruit
AAcross 9:	Church's bouncy castle isn't for grown-ups to enter
AAcross 10:	See 5	ANDLEMONS
AAcross 11:	Mates unhappy with Jeremy? They decrease	STEAMIRONS
AAcross 12:	No 7 assistant
AAcross 14:	Like the centre of Bordeaux, without barriers and without weapons
AAcross 18:	Force two to pick up easily digestible French cheeses
AAcross 21:	Limited containment of bug
AAcross 22:	Waterside dump in London	SHOREDITCH
AAcross 25:	Sustenance for worried nit nurse? About time!
AAcross 26:	Inventor's clangers
AAcross 27:	One is overwhelmed by ogre's howls
AAcross 28:	Twit's betrayal
DDown 1:	Poor treatment partly makes us immigrants rise
DDown 2:	Trashed uniform adopted by leftie
DDown 3:	Dietitian upset about slimmer's heart scare
DDown 4:	It's a wobbly rooftop step
DDown 5:	India gripped by guns as ritual
DDown 6:	Even members of yacht team excuse me!
DDown 7:	Starts to get out of drowning in debt — expert advice is a useful suggestion	GOODIDEA
DDown 8:	Anxious uncertainty getting lift could develop into spitefulness
DDown 13:	Trustworthy English writer turning naughty, led off outside
DDown 15:	See 24
DDown 16:	See 9	CLEMENTS
DDown 17:	Schedule inverted by a sod of a troublemaker
DDown 19:	Record reader and writer
DDown 20:	Member of Trinity reported in newspaper	THESUN
DDown 23:	Taken again by shocker heading north
DDown 24:	Distant object in game is your debt, according to the 26 of 9 1 across