The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Monday, 27th May 2024

There are 14 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 27th May 2024. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Film company boss and satellite
AAcross 5:	Controversial type of European film
AAcross 9:	Activist gets rougher when going back inside
AAcross 10:	Relative backing of measure that’s a relief
AAcross 11:	Being corrupt, I twice try to conceal soldier’s malpractice
AAcross 13:	Singer engaged in nepotism
AAcross 14:	Top’s come off instrument? Then adaption needed for musical entertainment	IOLANTHE
AAcross 17:	Sly son, big and single	STALLONE
AAcross 18:	Never managed to turn at end of runway
AAcross 20:	Mosaic construction showing satellites on move
AAcross 23:	Traditionalist, one of a number on the board?
AAcross 24:	Fiesta, in body terms holds 4
AAcross 25:	Abandon craft – it’s turning about!
AAcross 26:	Boudicca-style accessory chest moved around yard
DDown 2:	Name after Salt Lake
DDown 3:	Is second to wear wretched sack
DDown 4:	Dead city once covered by rock and dirt
DDown 5:	Fast-moving hunter’s power rifle range, once set
DDown 6:	Daffodil advanced by actor James?
DDown 7:	Gloomy sort of cleaner, about to retire
DDown 8:	Top Labour and increasingly rattled Tory leaders keeping quiet
DDown 12:	Like David oddly equates US with Turkey’s capital?
DDown 15:	Nothing’s achieved by being dominated by foreign dissent
DDown 16:	Unfeeling music genre? Not so much
DDown 19:	Knight, despicable type, turned back river
DDown 21:	Hardly satisfying read, Times leader
DDown 22:	Penniless poet’s strip