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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 23rd June 2016

There are 16 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 23rd June 2016. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 9: Honest villain seen circling minute 6-foot stage?
AAcross 10: Mischief-maker close at hand
AAcross 11: Given glossy coat, tailless llama needed to be replaced
AAcross 12: Singers that tweet about Prince as former actor
AAcross 13: Some guts shown by couple meeting a bad end earlier
AAcross 15: Sold out through saying: "If it can go wrong, it will"
AAcross 17: Indian chief, 100, with very bad back
AAcross 18: Number not good for offspring
AAcross 20: Slovenly Scotswoman needed to get cleaner? "Maybe Someday" covers that
AAcross 22: His opera briefly involved fruit
AAcross 22: His opera briefly involved fruit
AAcross 25: Two articles about underwear in sacred text
AAcross 26: Flying fish eater, one whose lover regularly swam north
AAcross 27: Light colour for soot?
AAcross 30: Feel inferior? That's stupid
AAcross 31: One taking snap of beatnik onlyNIKON
DDown 1: Male musician's first appearance on radio
DDown 2: Son of Scots playing on air? That's dandy!
DDown 3: Male holding very large pipe starts to hum October Song etc
DDown 4: See 12
DDown 5: Flat point between fringes of Smoke Shovelling suit
DDown 6: King Charles not to be taken outside? Preposterous!
DDown 7: Drum one doctor found in short story
DDown 8: Opposed to a mother's ruin
DDown 13: Ornamentation of French horn by Debussy?
DDown 14: Like 12, passed as fair
DDown 16: Female from Western state
DDown 19: Submarines torpedoed? U-boat's heading away — close call!
DDown 21: Delays before second cashier takes dodgy bet
DDown 23: Musician's essential for group of Arabs?
DDown 24: Rock group circuit's rising golfer
DDown 26: Messy mix in middle of The Tree
DDown 28: Musician ultimately in wrong group
DDown 29: Caring daughter supports relatives
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