The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 4th February 2022

There are 14 across clues and 12 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 4th February 2022. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Work for printer — me?
AAcross 9:	Having variations in tune quality
AAcross 10:	Tries on pants off the shelf?
AAcross 11:	1-1: only in second half is eleven beaten badly	ANEVENBET
AAcross 12:	Free hit to leg
AAcross 13:	Initiates of alphabetical jigsaw and Araucaria's Xmas Club
AAcross 14:	Remember what, until her rude awakening, Goldilocks didn't have?
AAcross 16:	Duke, licensed to fly, drops
AAcross 19:	Pressure applied to a US felon
AAcross 20:	One settling on bark after wind
AAcross 21:	Mark's boy holding onto old record company pass
AAcross 23:	As if this country could be construed to be Afro-Asiatic!
AAcross 24:	Misleading, as stationary ship may be?	LYINGTO
AAcross 25:	Dressing job performed in theatre smashes European finals
DDown 1:	Why we'll never please everybody who neatly erases goofs?	THERESALWAYSONE
DDown 2:	Erstwhile plum duffer
DDown 3:	Is this clue like an Alka-Seltzer?
DDown 4:	Checker, perhaps, who won't be sticking at twenty-one
DDown 5:	Where each August competitive sailors may be offensive
DDown 6:	Broadcast desire to land and soon lose consciousness	GOOUTLIKEALIGHT
DDown 7:	Little girl's make-up case guards PIN, enigmatically	SUGARANDSPICE
DDown 8:	View from another wing, beneath the lower part	SECONDOPINION
DDown 15:	Empress turned up when cross
DDown 17:	Tick brown cans you need to recycle
DDown 18:	Girl's top, simply ghastly part of uniform
DDown 22:	Pop's broken tea service