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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 18th November 2008

There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 18th November 2008. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 9: Hardly rocket science, underwear lacking rein for adjustment
AAcross 10: An official guide to seating
AAcross 11: Bit end of pie/pasty
AAcross 12: Beowulf-like, enter rocky point above the source of upheaval
AAcross 13: River circling once fashionable isleSHEPPEY
AAcross 14: Level unit releasing large bird of prey
AAcross 17: Anything put in house, like a teach-yourself guideHOWTO
AAcross 19: Recording over gulping duck's "quack"
AAcross 20: Jolly unpleasant woman has Rex yielding to pressure
AAcross 21: Given to retirement party almost lacking space
AAcross 22: Stone artist's classicSTLEGER
AAcross 24: Perhaps oily street scene trader initially has Superman accessory
AAcross 26: Tom very low, seeing Buzz in grip of bacterial disease
AAcross 28: "Dense grass by ditches black!"
AAcross 29: Early arrival's announcement before start of untitled short musical piece
DDown 1: Cocaine bagged up - way over the top
DDown 2: Make love, live to be around 51 - grand!
DDown 3: Impervious to RAF power ground
DDown 4: Tending to react to irritating feature in snitch
DDown 5: Freud-like, say, sit it out in electrical discharge
DDown 6: Christmas solvers will vociferously change the written word "heavenwards"
DDown 7: Brandished cape with wave
DDown 8: Political loyalist gets straight down
DDown 13: Title: "Henry Enters Bent Over"
DDown 15: Former wife Henry VIII beheaded: country gives a sigh
DDown 16: Crossword setter's hen party ending in physical upheaval
DDown 18: Car cleaning mechanism happened to be hot with current applied to power energy
DDown 19: When forced, admit harbouring man by a coastal strip of land
DDown 22: Rather drippy, grabbing top of ledge, ready to drop off
DDown 23: Cross borne by George Smiley, extremely protective of back
DDown 24: See 6
DDown 25: Bean-type, say, falling about, having a ball
DDown 27: See 8
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