The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28313 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 28313 clues and answers were published on Thu 10 Dec 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28313 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


8-acrossLet go of everything, including WPC’s protection : FIREWALL
9-acrossReturning live president’s vehicles : EBIKES
10-acrossDetermined to hide kiss in explicit message : SEXT
11-acrossUnfortunate snag in camp grooming activity : MANSCAPING
12-acrossCharacters covered in lava: perspiring, but they aren’t exactly smoking : VAPERS
14-acrossSharing one’s thoughts with cute touch, briefly : TWEETING
15-acrossBeliever in fake news article, Republican keeping dull routine : TRUTHER
17-acrossMass of waste paper cut by a composer : FATBERG
20-acrossRefuse further contact with a foreign fellow in red pants : UNFRIEND
22-acrossNationalist policy from monarch getting in scrap : BREXIT
23-acrossOne new chronicle with current text, like the across answers here : NEOLOGISMS
24-acrossVery extensive, nameless posts online : VLOG
25-acrossMan United star that is as Aeneas to Achates : BESTIE
26-acrossMusical cycle has style and contemporary sound : RINGTONE

All Down Clues and Answers:


1-down – Dog in cable host’s opening show : WIREHAIR
2-down – Fast, but not when in France! : LENT
3-down – Greek island with quiet ambiance — not half! : PATMOS
4-down – Time to invest in kites — they’re seen in the sky : PLANETS
5-down – Funny hue by red borders of reseda plant genus : HEUCHERA
6-down – Make invalid’s absorbing phrase open to debate : DISPUTABLE
7-down – Keep writing about new standard : PENNON
13-down – Put in grinding toil with hard calculus : ENTEROLITH
16-down – Efforts of heartless foes seizing empty Reichstag : ENERGIES
18-down – Descartes’s logical bit of algebra is on news : RAISONNE
19-down – Shot as a dart from Caesar heavenwards : ADASTRA
21-down – Required for reporter, any editors : NEEDED
22-down – Sailors thus about to enter Rolls : BOSUNS
24-down – Mark an X in 18 consecutive letters brought up : VOTE

This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.

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