The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28024 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 28024 clues and answers were published on Wed 08 Jan 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28024 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


9-acrossMembranes : AMNIA
10-acrossMusic storage medium playing on air gets inside head : PIANOROLL
11-acrossAfter interval, judge is indifferent : THIRDRATE
12-acrossProduce cut when Pence intervenes : SPAWN
13-across‘Butterfly Month’ involves performing : MONARCH
15-acrossSee 29 : SEASONS
17-acrossPrized example of peer pressure at the start : PEARL
18-acrossObliterate extremely lacking African prince : RAS
20-acrossAfrican country’s familiar popul­ist politician changes sides : NIGER
22-acrossCast out parsley? : PLAYERS
25-acrossJewellery calls for attention to collar : EARRING
26-acrossNo hope at all for this £1,001? : GONER
27-acrossFish workers’ means of effecting a run-through : PIKESTAFF
30-acrossTeller gets changed to run race : RACONTEUR
31-acrossBritish historian? Lay off this Chinese region! : MACAU

All Down Clues and Answers:


1-down – Concluding it’s foot-shaped : LAST
2-down – Paganini is to be played without ‘pop’ symbols : INSIGNIA
3-down – Knave takes king for joker : CARD
4-down – Hard time getting back into Prague ground to assemble, as in former days : UPGATHER
5-down – Features about the coreless apples? : EATERS
6-down – Tool case linking device : BOXSPANNER
7-down – Cup presented wrongly to a lazy person : POTATO
8-down – Dope cut with large narrow hollow : GLEN
13-down – Clear the mess made by Flash, the dog? : MOPUP
14-down – Multi-wheeled transport used in this posh car enclosure : ROLLERRINK
16-down – Holly cut off singular killjoy : SPRIG
19-down – Order repeatedly issued by them for audio equipment? : SPEAKERS
21-down – Direction of type of desktop display system jig? : GUIDANCE
23-down – Learn? I can’t — lacking time for observation and application : ARNICA
24-down – Drinker’s snack? : SUPPER
26-down – Miss touring Gibraltar, having rejected Rabat : GIRL
28-down – Timeless puzzle causes depression : SUMP
29-down – A year’s worth of the drink, son, inside for us — no getting drunk! : FOUR

This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.

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