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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 17th January 2012

There are 15 across clues and 12 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 17th January 2012. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: With one drink entering exams in wickedness that's passed on
AAcross 9: Top familiar arrangement of surface letters? No!
AAcross 9: Top familiar arrangement of surface letters? No!
AAcross 10: Bridgetown has crazy paving stones with steps somehow missing
AAcross 11: Saint ousts leader for greed and lack of intelligence
AAcross 12: Disdain for 20 at last changing direction
AAcross 13: Australians implicated in the return of consumerism
AAcross 14: He is to begin proceedings, say, after idiot found on line
AAcross 16: The other place might be cool
AAcross 19: I forgot to mention at the start, so try and pay attention!
AAcross 20: Heartless Harry's knocked back wine
AAcross 21: Heard F here in 10, half decent and streamlined
AAcross 23: Dodgy dealer accepts milestone
AAcross 24: To add insult to injury, take part in destructionRUBITIN
AAcross 25: Sides with Marxist leader below ground — shows guts
DDown 1: Guardian's letter from Europe outwardly left Freudian slip — that's novelOURMUTUALFRIEND
DDown 2: Arab republicans have quite intelligent leaders
DDown 3: Compiler shall bequeath malevolence
DDown 4: Rain falls? Yes, it regularly makes us shrink
DDown 5: Unorthodox priest admits two partners and one who hasn't a partner
DDown 6: Perhaps major politician with large troops — it's bad and mad
DDown 7: Travel document for Paris? Assez, les bêtises!
DDown 8: Snog (with intent) had perhaps led to this?
DDown 15: Clever ones get E's
DDown 17: What's to be done with another order of magnitude, when it's gone
DDown 18: Conclude with rejection of the afterlife, perhaps
DDown 22: Message for the business secretary?
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