The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26003 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 26003 clues and answers were published on Thu 18 Jul 2013 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 26003 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


1-acrossComputer puzzling no work for a monkey : MACAQUE
5-acrossChannels being employed on board : SINUSES
9-acrossScrubber taking a plonker from behind : LOOFA
10-acrossSee 27 : LIMOUSINE
11-acrossConventional way, say, to find 2 of 4, perhaps? : SQUAREROOT
12-acrossSee 26 : SNOW
14-acrossBlooming quality not as good among delicate seamless fringes : FLOWERINESS
18-acrossSee 27 : CONTINENTAL
21-acrossOne’s blown old plane in half : OBOE
22-acrossChoppy sea more confused, we hear, in part of England : EASTANGLIA
25-acrossEstablishment of Rome not entirely anti-revolutionary : FORMATION
26-acrossJay catching birds beginning to warble seasonal song : LETIT
27-acrossPresident taking circuitous line in consultation with me, I’m stretched out, tired and exhausted : LINCOLN
28-acrossThird wife has to be extra watchful, they say : SEYMOUR

All Down Clues and Answers:


1-down – Attack underground workers heading for tunnel : MOLEST
2-down – Taking credit and responsibility, he brought up his children : CRONUS
3-down – Four leaflets for it, equal after distribution : QUATREFOIL
4-down – Mathematician starts to expand upon Lagrange’s extraordinary results : EULER
5-down – Dozy trio of neighbouring characters screened by Hampshire channel : SOMNOLENT
6-down – Sense the superpower’s gone then? : NOUS
7-down – More slight risk with nine labours : SKINNIER
8-down – Budgerigars, perhaps, rising like owls in flight? : STEPWISE
13-down – Part below zero literally empty, however : WILLYNILLY
15-down – Time alternative cases in process : OPERATION
16-down – Small number of hens, you might say, for an ice cream serving? : SCOOPFUL
17-down – Joiner taking gold fled from the country : ANDORRAN
19-down – Drunk left in the end, cut short : BLOTTO
20-down – Beam first on roof then : RAFTER
23-down – Beer container is capital : TUNIS
24-down – Held up by hook, a monster shark : MAKO

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

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