The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Monday, 27th February 2023

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 27th February 2023. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Get down from there and stop pulling my leg	COMEOFFIT
AAcross 6:	Farm animal to lower head in river bend
AAcross 9:	Gore beginning to drop into tube
AAcross 10:	Vigour I am contributing to a country
AAcross 11:	Detect person's elastic slipping, a source of optimistic views
AAcross 12:	Sounds from cat in fashionable street
AAcross 14:	Numbers of species left common
AAcross 15:	Grouse distractedly about Conservative whip
AAcross 17:	An improved partner in crime?
AAcross 19:	Not yet in bed, drunk and unable to relax
AAcross 20:	The besetting sin of the Greens?
AAcross 22:	See 11
AAcross 25:	Exhausting journey to get computer equipment
AAcross 26:	Name of songbird, extremely large
AAcross 27:	Being tense, ramble about buried valuables
AAcross 28:	Big rodent on the loose in Kentish Town	TONBRIDGE
DDown 1:	Substitute fielder?
DDown 2:	Crazy set of directions were rational	MADESENSE
DDown 3:	Demolish old book, well read
DDown 4:	Evasive talk from the cloth
DDown 5:	Tours round church build muscle
DDown 6:	Only women in emirate?
DDown 7:	Wait around altar finally for her?
DDown 8:	Dishevelled, after a series of blows
DDown 13:	Swindle over farm machinery one is engaged to supply
DDown 14:	Fruit cooked? It used to be fired
DDown 16:	Great duel contested under formal rules
DDown 18:	Salesman isn't commonly going to change decor
DDown 19:	Pawnbroker has a name like muck
DDown 21:	In Spanish port, a Republican sign
DDown 23:	Part of play understood when listening
DDown 24:	Slacking, paid less — only half