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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 28th August 2015

There are 16 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 28th August 2015. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Beaten about at noon, took a brief rest
AAcross 6: One's up for an amendment
AAcross 9: Corporate Scotland welcomes big businessTESCO
AAcross 10: Born again, I survived after a renaissance
AAcross 11: Spring plant
AAcross 12: Wife — Sagittarius, for example, should I be able to count on her?
AAcross 14: Even parts of soup turned over three times is soup
AAcross 15: Silent hiding place for pipe
AAcross 16: Dope and heroin in film like Women In Love?
AAcross 19: Ultimately ear piercing to arouse a tiny part of the ear?
AAcross 22: Finish puzzle in another language?FLOORPOLISH
AAcross 23: Reptile like python, primarily
AAcross 24: Back of a lorry, where dog and pig died
AAcross 26: See 12
AAcross 27: Dog caught in bear's clutches
AAcross 28: Twelve-year-old, say, short bird astride foal?
DDown 1: Get the latest gossip from malicious woman, friend not entirely pleased, initially
DDown 1: Get the latest gossip from malicious woman, friend not entirely pleased, initially
DDown 2: Throw prize in boozer
DDown 3: Accelerator in order going into hamster as swerving
DDown 4: Bad man following good in canoe
DDown 5: Stop welcoming platform for the art of incongruity
DDown 6: Vicar's cycle
DDown 7: Irregular green semicircle turns up on top of table
DDown 8: Pinned up in epaulettes, ornate badge of honour
DDown 13: An 11-2 win ordered with chips?IPSWICHTOWN
DDown 16: Convertible, piano to pianoSOFTTOP
DDown 17: Stipulation for and against one's opinion, at first
DDown 18: One leaving location shivering — what made the temperature drop?
DDown 19: Fiddle only, nothing less, eclipsing trumpets and flutes etc
DDown 20: One driver blocking another, reportedly drove over corner
DDown 20: One driver blocking another, reportedly drove over corner
DDown 21: Prepare cracks, one covering surface with fine material
DDown 25: I'm disgusted by all hapless leaders
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