The Guardian Quiptic Answers

Monday, 9th January 2006

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Quiptic crossword on Monday, 9th January 2006. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Hates being cut short: hates changes
AAcross 5:	Source of perfume becomes hip with age
AAcross 9:	Force horse to whimper	GRRAN
AAcross 10:	In New Zealand, a pipe is held to cause illness
AAcross 11:	"Cook/Blair - the last two" - accurate satire	CAAICATURE
AAcross 12:	Drink on the floor
AAcross 14:	Fishing at sea?
AAcross 18:	Lift blockade of Eire with assegai, perhaps	RAISEASIEGE
AAcross 21:	Old painter to return shortly
AAcross 22:	Player at Table 1 takes order back
AAcross 25:	Manager is mean to worker
AAcross 26:	Ridicule Tory leaving bait
AAcross 27:	Terrible hunger initially: starve if it fails
AAcross 28:	The two beginners duck twice around the moor
DDown 1:	Maybe Will left it
DDown 2:	A plank on a ship
DDown 3:	Without leader, blew hot and cold before being restrained
DDown 4:	Spell "wader"
DDown 5:	Mention politeness, if given new start
DDown 6:	See 17
DDown 7:	It might be funny to include short sermon on conviviality
DDown 8:	Reading a novel, "A network of sewers"
DDown 13:	High excitement to go and get wriggling viper inside
DDown 15:	Watchful voters ban fraud
DDown 16:	Fantastic novel, "About a Boy" (unfinished)
DDown 17:	Scorcese''s full version of "Head or Tail"?
DDown 19:	General takes Major's wife to port
DDown 20:	Penguin slime covering medical tubes?
DDown 23:	Michelin first to produce "A to Z of Food"
DDown 24:	Formerly a roundabout