The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28672 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 28672 clues and answers were published on Fri 04 Feb 2022 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28672 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


1-acrossWork for printer — me? : TYPESETTING
9-acrossHaving variations in tune quality : UNEQUAL
10-acrossTries on pants off the shelf? : INSTORE
11-across1-1: only in second half is eleven beaten badly : ANEVENBET
12-acrossFree hit to leg : LETGO
13-acrossInitiates of alphabetical jigsaw and Araucaria’s Xmas Club : AJAX
14-acrossRemember what, until her rude awakening, Goldilocks didn’t have? : BEARINMIND
16-acrossDuke, licensed to fly, drops : DOWNSWINGS
19-acrossPressure applied to a US felon : PERP
20-acrossOne settling on bark after wind : PAYER
21-acrossMark’s boy holding onto old record company pass : SEMICOLON
23-acrossAs if this country could be construed to be Afro-Asiatic! : CROATIA
24-acrossMisleading, as stationary ship may be? : LYINGTO
25-acrossDressing job performed in theatre smashes European finals : ELASTOPLAST

All Down Clues and Answers:


1-down – Why we’ll never please everybody who neatly erases goofs? : THERESALWAYSONE
2-down – Erstwhile plum duffer : PRUNE
3-down – Is this clue like an Alka-Seltzer? : SOLUBLE
4-down – Checker, perhaps, who won’t be sticking at twenty-one : TWISTER
5-down – Where each August competitive sailors may be offensive : INSOLENT
6-down – Broadcast desire to land and soon lose consciousness : GOOUTLIKEALIGHT
7-down – Little girl’s make-up case guards PIN, enigmatically : SUGARANDSPICE
8-down – View from another wing, beneath the lower part : SECONDOPINION
15-down – Empress turned up when cross : TSARITSA
17-down – Tick brown cans you need to recycle : INSTANT
18-down – Girl’s top, simply ghastly part of uniform : GYMSLIP
22-down – Pop’s broken tea service : CHINA

This crossword has in total 26 where 14 are across and 12 are down.

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