The Guardian Quick Answers

Thursday, 22nd December 2005

There are 22 across clues and 22 down clues for the The Guardian Quick crossword on Thursday, 22nd December 2005. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	See 7	JUDYSHOW
AAcross 5:	Cut — piece of film
AAcross 5:	Medway town - hero of ...
AAcross 8:	... novel by 19 10
AAcross 9:	Tree — figure — aircraft
AAcross 9:	Opening
AAcross 10:	Skilled worker
AAcross 10:	See 19
AAcross 11:	Inlet north of Edinburgh
AAcross 11:	Separate
AAcross 13:	Send back into custody or bail
AAcross 13:	Mark by overheating
AAcross 14:	Medicine man
AAcross 15:	Civil
AAcross 16:	Senior churchman - bird
AAcross 17:	And that's regrettable	MORESTHEPITY
AAcross 18:	See 8
AAcross 19:	Yorkshire novelist
AAcross 20:	Tan (or an unsuccessful attempt at it)
AAcross 21:	Precise
AAcross 22:	Basis for new plant
AAcross 23:	Blowing strongly but unevenly
DDown 1:	Practical joke
DDown 1:	Person in charge of colony, prison etc
DDown 2:	Belief in two basic entities
DDown 2:	Group of words
DDown 3:	Sauce in Chinese cookery	SWEETANDSOUR
DDown 3:	Climb
DDown 4:	Speaker
DDown 4:	Thaw
DDown 6:	Device for concentrating light
DDown 6:	Aristocrat
DDown 7:	Knockabout puppet entertainment	PUNCHAND
DDown 7:	Grasping and exploitative
DDown 8:	Rumsfeld's comment on collateral damage	STUFFHAPPENS
DDown 12:	Pledges (often repeated!)
DDown 12:	Novel by 19 10	VILLETTE
DDown 14:	Needing food
DDown 15:	Marsh gas
DDown 15:	Cushion
DDown 16:	No help (anag) — antiseptic
DDown 17:	Roald, writer
DDown 18:	Swill
DDown 19:	Remain — support