The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27829 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 27829 clues and answers were published on Fri 24 May 2019 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 27829 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


1-acrossWithout wasting words, show sympathy, capturing child’s heart : PITHILY
5-acrossRevealed orgy of dope and sex : EXPOSED
9-acrossBacking role, embracing male — one of slender means : TRAMP
10-acrossPeculiar shapes securing fastener produce contentment : HAPPINESS
11-acrossSqueal ‘Woo!’ in type of 20 : GRASSCOURT
12-acrossMore despondent, dropping drug in haze : BLUR
14-acrossStink horribly, trashing universal values : HUMANRIGHTS
18-acrossPhilosopher of language chewing over fish with booze : IRISMURDOCH
21-across10 in something to buy in 19 bar : AXLE
22-acrossSpeak at length about a short swim around and leave to decay : DILAPIDATE
25-acrossFruit of foul temper skewered? On the contrary : TANGERINE
26-acrossEnergy endlessly recycled would be so : GREEN
27-acrossBear eating gutted veggie in non-veggie establishment : CARVERY
28-acrossTotally heartless diatribes from dictators : TYRANTS

All Down Clues and Answers:


1-down – Broth, say, over? Over : POTAGE
2-down – Drink producer’s sheep receiving a degree : TEABAG
3-down – Setter’s after Scottish thinker’s abscess : IMPOSTHUME
4-down – Cry of delight from vulgar sort : YAHOO
5-down – Fourth letter in Oscar Peterson’s made-up language : ESPERANTO
6-down – Annoyance caused by French bread : PAIN
7-down – Being furtive, make off with your old … : STEALTHY
8-down – … 6, first in costume : DISTRESS
13-down – Seek information with which to identify malefactor’s food item : FISHFINGER
15-down – Sickliness results in dim boy getting no points in resit : MORBIDITY
16-down – Performed deed in college, initially providing instruction : DIDACTIC
17-down – Popular novelist embraces headdress-maker : MILLINER
19-down – Pub where brown cleric gets round in : TAVERN
20-down – Keyboard instrument — no piano — raised in sport : TENNIS
23-down – Expert has a profundity that’s bottomless : ADEPT
24-down – Sheds uninherited characteristic? : MEME

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

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