The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 23rd September 2021

There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 23rd September 2021. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Hopeful hellfire ultimately denied in Eve's reluctance to partake of forbidden fruit?
AAcross 10:	Top off, cook
AAcross 11:	Child, one accommodated in large shed
AAcross 12:	6's vessel on stream
AAcross 13:	Curious tree was top
AAcross 14:	Cast of Cats, say?
AAcross 17:	Characters regularly seen in small-town shop
AAcross 19:	Cut in refinement, get work by 14 of more than one 6?
AAcross 20:	Lexicographical publication, old, old manuscript
AAcross 21:	6's blunder, one line back
AAcross 22:	6's brief smile, fake	GRISHAM
AAcross 24:	Local worker, margin squeezed in trade
AAcross 26:	Almost having taken head off, order dismissal
AAcross 28:	See 8
AAcross 29:	See 19
DDown 1:	Straight punch catching back of Fulham supporter
DDown 2:	6's atop wall?
DDown 3:	Resident in Mississippi, a not unerringly trained listener
DDown 4:	State goes out with a dictator
DDown 5:	Leg across always in cramped quarters
DDown 6:	Name Welsh artist and English pop star
DDown 7:	Ill-prepared monarch sheltered, having lost crown at sea
DDown 8:	It, for example, requires change of kit in port on the Mersey
DDown 13:	Rough stuff, one caught by filly that's rolled over
DDown 15:	Mathematician who screwed up?
DDown 16:	Saw long coat, metre
DDown 18:	Wound cord before judge
DDown 19:	Drink inferior to sea water reportedly limited	TIEDDOWN
DDown 22:	Loud, one needing quiet after kid turned up
DDown 23:	A zip's caught — whoopee!
DDown 24:	See 26
DDown 25:	Blade's ego?
DDown 27:	Joy to behold finally, a grandmaster	YODA