The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28266 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 28266 clues and answers were published on Fri 16 Oct 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28266 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


1-acrossCharlotte races about in this? : CHELSEA
5-acrossSee 1 : TRACTOR
9-acrossCopy of Two Thousand and One, with music finale : MIMIC
10-acrossRuns out of air? Oh dear! : DIARRHOEA
11-acrossSupports bar locks : BUTTRESSES
12-acrossTie the knot after most excellent love is given : BEST
14-acrossGet some sleep before family calls for tableware : NAPKINRINGS
18-acrossSee 3 : GLORIAMUNDI
21-acrossSee 12 : OWED
22-acrossEach letter is liberal : PERMISSIVE
25-acrossAn underground place of humiliation : ABASEMENT
26-acrossSee 24 : LUNAR
27-across19 artist’s work to fade out ultimately, such a recipe for disaster : THEKISS
28-acrossSee 27 : OFDEATH

All Down Clues and Answers:


1-down – Meet something funny with B Ford : COMEBY
2-down – NY Times singularly spreading hatred : ENMITY
3-down – Celebrity passes what sounds like ambulance during a limo trip : SICTRANSIT
4-down – Range in the Arabian desert : ANDES
5-down – In train wreck, old Sophocles? : TRAGEDIAN
6-down – Wrong to be suspicious with a promotion : AWRY
7-down – Pony went bust worth not much money : TWOPENNY
8-down – Drive to evaluate Spooner’s lily pad? : ROADTEST
13-down – Are you, as they say, taken in by strong Arab commander leaving home course? : FRUITSALAD
15-down – Starts to put record straight about some current spoilers : PAMPERERS
16-down – Endlessly going off on tirade is not clever : IGNORANT
17-down – Website tribute about the centre of Aleppo : HOMEPAGE
19-down – Life in Paris before Napoleon evacuated a capital city : VIENNA
20-down – Scarcity put right inside 28 : DEARTH
23-down – ‘Head off, bottom up’ as a slogan : MOTTO
24-down – Surgeon’s first working rule: man, I like the aortic valve! : SEMI

This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.

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