The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25997 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 25997 clues and answers were published on Thu 11 Jul 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 25997 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


1-acrossSlightly more detailed clothes for one in a sequined costume : MATADOR
5-acrossIs one too tired for the Listener? : BICYCLE
9-acrossCuckoo clocks, chocolates, snow, Alps and Heidi ultimately — this? : SWISS
10-acrossIdentify large drink — and be affected by it? : SEEDOUBLE
11-acrossNapier’s figures almost right, not entirely wrong : LOGARITHMS
12-acrossSome light, or heavy, supporting structure : BEAM
14-acrossBarely trendy big but not good musician, losing head as superstar : JUSTINBIEBER
18-acrossPicture dork eating chicken with badger on the side in New York : WHENHARRYMET
21-acrossSee 24 : SPAN
22-acrossPaul’s wife in cutie snatched by virtually mad African : ZIMBABWEAN
25-acrossA boy heading west, a country being taken over, leader in exile : DALAILAMA
26-acrossSee 18 : SALLY
27-acrossCut round opening in pine to get sap : DEPLETE
28-acrossDog missing old wine a ton : HUNDRED

All Down Clues and Answers:


1-down – Club with a scheme to prepare a strip of beef? : MUSCLE
2-down – Scrawny geezer, less posh — I don’t recall his name : THINGY
3-down – Current housing is heading for trouble, so upset : DISTRAUGHT
4-down – Second paper, one among the others : RESIT
5-down – Bitter dough? : BEERMONEY
6-down – Diminutive reptile buried in volcanic rock : CROC
7-down – Front : COBWEBBY
8-down – Always before involving the state, testament erased : EVERMORE
13-down – Rubbish bin arrives as area emptying the water : RIVERBASIN
15-down – Stop Britartist installing the first bit of rubbish in gallery : TERMINATE
16-down – Dowdiest sort of paper like this : TWOSIDED
17-down – Measure in computer language left smoke, in the words of Keats, to rise : MEGAFLOP
19-down – Chopper in man, pronounced : FELLER
20-down – As hair without bleach revived, might you say? : UNDYED
23-down – See 1 : BEACH
24-down – Years of being in pain, self-destructive : LIFE

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

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