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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 24th March 2010

There are 15 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 24th March 2010. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Second team invested in poxy finance
AAcross 5: Exercise in ring, ending in whack for the motivator
AAcross 5: Exercise in ring, ending in whack for the motivator
AAcross 9: Prominence one observed on front of swimming trunks
AAcross 10: Part of the way open is to nearest South Yorkshire town
AAcross 11: Frantic having to survive, far from great
AAcross 12: Inelegantly swan dips to cause bubbles to surface?
AAcross 14: North Yorkshire town laughs, bit of a slow burnerGIGGLESWICK
AAcross 18: Conclude there's a requirement for an unexpected dinner guest to eat nothing
AAcross 21: Elder plant
AAcross 22: West Yorkshire town's ref not surprisingly in agreementPONTEFRACT
AAcross 25: Heading off big fish, US supercarrier adjusts conclusion, being in accord
AAcross 26: West Yorkshire town, disparate, lacking leadershipOTLEY
AAcross 27: Still to come to grips with new road, finding way back
AAcross 28: Tried, perhaps, to fill middle of cheese dish
DDown 1: Calm North Yorkshire town
DDown 2: Forceful surge forward after end of ten hours being furious
DDown 3: Is cat among horses up for the earth-shattering record?
DDown 4: Don't tear off to see North Yorkshire townRIPON
DDown 5: Smoke that's brown rising in foreign food
DDown 6: Advertise job
DDown 7: A poet like Byron forgetting name, like 21 and 23, say?
DDown 8: Token food before drink
DDown 13: Fido's legs struggling to get round old part of LondonISLEOFDOGS
DDown 15: Having to understand about oxygen chart is student of the earth
DDown 16: Polish European not fin­ishing up year in West Yorkshire townDEWSBURY
DDown 17: Letter from Greece about tyrannical leader that's appreciated as evidence of suffering
DDown 19: West Yorkshire town where pert rear seen through hay on top of youBATLEY
DDown 20: Didn't go steady after a wobble
DDown 23: Plant which has healing properties, they say
DDown 24: See 12
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