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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 1st February 2013

There are 13 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 1st February 2013. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 5: Doing crosswords and so on? Not I — I'm a philosopher
AAcross 6: Take back ringleader, you heard, caught by English policeman
AAcross 9: Part of sentence, as separately entered in this, for example
AAcross 10: Asia trip arranged for 5 down in retirement
AAcross 11: Piece of clothing repeatedly featuring in detective's travestied investigation
AAcross 12: Simple — like copper, say
AAcross 13: Tries scheme that goes awry, resulting in lists of offencesCRIMESHEETS
AAcross 18: Old character in fictional case I caught on river with fish eggs
AAcross 21: 5 down initially seen in connexion with American fraud
AAcross 22: Inspector quickly moves back inside sheltered positionLESTRADE
AAcross 23: Prejudice wrongly treated as crime, mostly
AAcross 24: Oddly deficient clue thus confused investigator
AAcross 25: Landlady with a bank near Wall Street
DDown 1: Kind of criminal, awfully bad, disrupted court
DDown 2: Withdraw from some case, detective being extremely selective
DDown 3: Boxer, possibly, was this dog
DDown 4: Journey north twice broken by old private eyePOIROT
DDown 5: Consultant whose medical assistant chronicled his cases
DDown 7: Hesitation among group of constables, mostly — three-pipe problems?
DDown 8: Where, in London, dozens of tradesmen are generous?BAKERSTREET
DDown 14: Notorious professor misrepresented Tory aim about part of basic educationMORIARTY
DDown 15: Part of legislature's act setting up exemplary legal process
DDown 16: Information's provided about four — from which certain conclusions may be deduced
DDown 17: Things scheduled, apart from hospital, for famous doctor
DDown 19: Wrongfully take them in as killers
DDown 20: Visibly unhappy after rejecting first reprimand
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