The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26672 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 26672 clues and answers were published on Wed 09 Sep 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26672 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


4-acrossArticle removed from commercial vessel for street trader : COSTER
6-acrossAfter test the fellow’s embarrassed like a pampered child? : MOTHERED
9-acrossRiver runs out of pastoral Paradise in old part of Canada : ACADIA
10-acrossOne of fifteen, number attending party held by employees : STANDOFF
11-acrossButterfly to emulate uroboros? : SWALLOWTAIL
15-acrossLively policeman with greeting for old : CHIPPER
17-acrossExplosive female in almost unbelievable incident of moral decline : THEFALL
18-acrossAce in odd bits of colour, one with great skill — and French too : CLAUDEMONET
22-acrossUnorthodox doctrine in town with suffragan bishop : CREDITON
23-acrossPlant or tree : ORPINE
24-acrossRelations in birthday act seen to be clowns : BUMPKINS
25-acrossMade a sudden movement, unlike a worm, say : LUNGED

All Down Clues and Answers:


1-down – Facial feature’s pleasantly warm : GENIAL
2-down – Shortened, like restricted road traversing area : CONTRACTED
3-down – Translation of Hellenic material : CHENILLE
4-down – Events for three-year-olds in form one starts with cardboard and scissors? : CLASSICS
5-down – Medicine man’s phoney and heartless old buffoon : SHAMANIC
7-down – Bird in small stream first to fly off : ROOK
8-down – Expert providing successive notes on time : DEFT
12-down – Way to circumvent problem that could make little king quarrel : WORKAROUND
13-down – A Parisian can get enthralled by witch, making a lasting impression : HAUNTING
14-down – Fancy having machine for catching fish! : FLATHEAD
16-down – A narrow opening in river provides recreation for the Japanese : PACHINKO
19-down – Repetition of odd upsetting medical abnormality? : MURMUR
20-down – Disease unwanted by gardener in his cabbages : SCAB
21-down – Mrs Merkel, say, in need of a new starting-point? : GERM

This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.

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