The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28680 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 28680 clues and answers were published on Mon 14 Feb 2022 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 28680 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


1-acrossJoint with soft drink brought round: thanks for the snack : CHIPOLATA
6-acrossTrophy I had as boy archer : CUPID
9-acrossThe nose one looks down? : SNOOT
10-acrossOne day this person will be caught out : APRILFOOL
11-acrossFake medic turned away : COD
12-acrossSweeping, managing to cover stretch of river : FARREACHING
14-acrossOne’s beaten by hostile tribe : WARDRUM
15-acrossProminent foreigner in the way : SALIENT
16-acrossThe start of everything, a very noisy affair? : BIGBANG
19-acrossQuarrelsome when talking in takeaway shop : CHIPPIE
22-acrossBrendan and his dog? : IRISHSETTER
23-acrossStick parts of biro delicately together : ROD
24-acrossFinished in a group, so left alone : ABANDONED
26-acrossWas he just a monk before? : PRIOR
27-acrossHaving lived, died with mark of beating : DWELT
28-acrossAll but one of the team drop out of this : RELAYRACE

All Down Clues and Answers:


1-down – Realise Daisy is a source of easy money : CASHCOW
2-down – Tidy home, given command : INORDER
3-down – How one might make the bar, panting : OUTOFBREATH
4-down – The sort of letters one finds in a crossword : ANAGRAM
5-down – Close and commonly bald : AIRLESS
6-down – Endlessly chilly in depression : COL
7-down – Biographical sketch is for dossier : PROFILE
8-down – Dance, heartlessly frivolous pleasure : DELIGHT
13-down – A good hand graphically represented : CALLIGRAPHY
16-down – Ship with pirate : BRIGAND
17-down – Serious expert’s dissatisfied look : GRIMACE
18-down – One picking up scraps in general mess : GLEANER
19-down – Easy shot, we hear, over key stronghold : CITADEL
20-down – Piece of Bach, perhaps: leave it alone to start with : PARTITA
21-down – Approve of Red Nose fooling : ENDORSE
25-down – Dorothy comes to a full stop : DOT

This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.

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