The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 19th December 2024

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 19th December 2024. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Arguably an excess of emotion when cataloguing bug?
AAcross 9:	Stop and stand
AAcross 10:	Beautiful message by 22 down – for her character
AAcross 11:	Roman copper coin, a rare fake featuring head of Balbinus
AAcross 12:	22 down character remains attached to English lord in senselessly joining club	ELINOR
AAcross 14:	Game pie calls for dried fruit
AAcross 15:	Comedic theatre where amusing hosts made merry
AAcross 17:	Foot carrying cut, very anxious
AAcross 20:	On the rack – in italics?
AAcross 22:	One that’s correct, though not entirely sharp
AAcross 23:	LS’s extra dining room?	HOLLOWLEGS
AAcross 24:	Drunkard, sweating, dropping time and time again in London area
AAcross 25:	Greenfly for example with love for green stuff
AAcross 26:	Mesmerising guru, one accompanying Scandinavian lass
DDown 1:	Part of fish, large on threshing shark
DDown 2:	Mark eyed in first year
DDown 3:	Seller of food that’s less appetising, we hear?
DDown 4:	See 10 Across	FAIRFAX
DDown 5:	22 down character personifies a despicable pleb loather
DDown 6:	For example, Fitzgerald’s behind sacrifice, 22 down character	FANNYPRICE
DDown 7:	22 down’s Mr. Collins, say, cut from poem and caught
DDown 13:	Book contains three-fifths of tales untold
DDown 16:	See 12 Across	DASHWOOD
DDown 18:	In speech, 22 down character’s noble
DDown 19:	Bad day punctuating a creative work
DDown 21:	See 5
DDown 22:	Author, ‘X’ from Oz?
DDown 24:	Long narrative, a talk written up