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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 11th August 2005

There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 11th August 2005. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Arnold's poem at the worst part
AAcross 5: Take a single message: "Love to the Economist"
AAcross 9: With feeble spite, modify the hype given to Elvis
AAcross 10: See 19
AAcross 11: Front teeth been bashed in?
AAcross 12: Gradual change of love back to hole to entrap me
AAcross 14: Pigment used by Nancy first
AAcross 15: Type of contract, not funny at start of play
AAcross 16: See 26NOPLANB
AAcross 18: See 19ARENOT
AAcross 20: Dove to make love to cover Adam's apple?
AAcross 21: Thrown into 23?
AAcross 24: Publisher's words put group on its head
AAcross 25: Spiked weapon for dedicated creature, holding back one that's been spayed, possiblyNEEDLEGUN
AAcross 26: Personable hint could be "take it or leave it"THEREIS
AAcross 27: Arnold's poem - 's in 26, we hearTHYRSIS
DDown 1: The vehicle that wasn't happy?
DDown 2: See 19THEONLY
DDown 3: A greeting from the Stones?
DDown 4: Yes (says the song), lunatic asylum's nothing before and after the GuardianWEHAVENOBANANAS
DDown 5: Three boys (over one in 100) with authority over gameROYALANDANCIENT
DDown 6: A number of measures concerning energy: beans 2 10 here?
DDown 7: Law about a circle with gold coins in a cylinder
DDown 8: Square dance? That's to go too far
DDown 13: Always right in story about trouble arising
DDown 16: Nothing or everything, stick up for it!NOTABIT
DDown 17: Cause to lie clean around Queen Jane's head
DDown 19: General stationery on fourth floor, with book not necessarily incompatible with 4
DDown 22: Clothes without number are a sort of pick-me-up
DDown 23: Fork out about a quid for the show
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