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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 31st December 2002

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 31st December 2002. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Bigwig with big backing from primate
AAcross 5: The fisherman's whim
AAcross 8: The country round follows alternative 1s
AAcross 9: Winter sports association for 51 bucks, maybeSKICLUB
AAcross 11: Ignis fatuus for back-packers?TRAVELLINGLIGHT
AAcross 12: Address to Manx cat by 8 across 1s, maybe
AAcross 13: A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable
AAcross 17: Before there's an upheaval, get a better job
AAcross 18: Precious little 12 for others
AAcross 20: Change from cad with clot and from 19 1s' 12COLDCOMFORTFARM
AAcross 23: Young creature for hire, always to be taken in
AAcross 24: Nobel prizewinner could be lost in a tabloidSULSTON
AAcross 25: Waged war determinedly to show 1
AAcross 26: Literary hero's drunk
DDown 2: All turn - that's demanded out of spite
DDown 3: I won't allow you to flag
DDown 4: Pasta with Benedictine in the realm of folly
DDown 5: Two generations could be free
DDown 6: 1s putting a smile on a fishGRINLING
DDown 7: POW camp with prisoners' regulator?
DDown 8: Heal portico that's collapsed: is this correctly pronounced?
DDown 10: Drink in Germany - please get the right answer
DDown 14: Beasts and bird in battle
DDown 15: Heath makes himself known about scheme that wasn't there at first
DDown 16: Two churches on song: a worm will follow
DDown 19: A girl to confess being inside it
DDown 21: Grey cover containing 6
DDown 22: Matched and dispatched?
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