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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 24th November 2005

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th November 2005. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 9: People on drug, which is backed
AAcross 9: People on drug, which is backed
AAcross 10: Board involved in European agreements?
AAcross 11: Store taken over, perhaps needing some investmentSAFEWAY
AAcross 12: Side roads taken in reverse after car fails to start
AAcross 13: Sound of setter suddenly flaring up?
AAcross 14: Spoon mixes in all cod amid awful smellBILLANDCOO
AAcross 16: Gerald Ford initially upset with the standard of socialism
AAcross 17: Church hides almost entire collection of birds' eggs
AAcross 19: Offensive urchin retreats when drunken sailor in pursuit
AAcross 22: Irish sauce?
AAcross 24: Slow to mop up river in toilet
AAcross 25: Restaurant where youngster's after some baked beans, possibly
AAcross 26: Some odds never to back?
AAcross 27: Pronouncement about servicemen's command
DDown 1: When turned over, slowing of engine keeps potential killer under a hundred or rising, you revealedCROSSWORDSOLVER
DDown 2: Criminals were quick to climb this, but not to descend from it
DDown 3: Medieval instrument in Wham's "Fantastic"
DDown 4: Fish good with two others
DDown 5: Particular dock?
DDown 6: Climber given unknown wine to drink when climbing, gulping oxygen
DDown 7: Reportedly, open prison for dining out
DDown 8: "I am inferior to noble", end of catchy songEARLYONEMORNING
DDown 15: Elderly preparation from spray of nebuliserBLUERINSE
DDown 17: Opportunist youth's heading for court
DDown 18: A rat leading its relatives the last first, it's learned
DDown 20: Very much sooner
DDown 21: Discussion of sex is beneath a programme
DDown 23: Irish rap?
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