The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 20th April 2020

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 20th April 2020. View the answers below..

Also try..
All The Guardian Cryptic Answers All Publications

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	One may go up in a few ticks
AAcross 1:	One may go up in a few ticks
AAcross 5:	Alluring, one's castle	GLAMIS
AAcross 9:	Plain, nothing to excite cockney
AAcross 10:	Sort of chest that may be scraped
AAcross 12:	Order thesaurus in online form?
AAcross 13:	Relatives reform, being adaptable
AAcross 14:	British legislating blasted for its bad language
AAcross 18:	Staying in bed, say, a great honour for a body	LYINGINSTATE
AAcross 21:	The Commonwealth: it could hardly be more distant from Britain
AAcross 23:	Refuse left by dyke builder
AAcross 24:	Giving a signal to be lining up for hearing
AAcross 25:	Officer rank needed to win a seat?
AAcross 26:	Getting to the end of this exhausts one's patience
AAcross 27:	Flag when monarch's aboard ship
DDown 1:	Sensitive to pain in small boat
DDown 2:	Almost making a mess of cake
DDown 3:	Looking offended, finding bit of toenail in small fish
DDown 4:	Man forcefully expelling one with ill will
DDown 6:	Some small Amazonian animal
DDown 7:	Alarming to be treated as almost irrelevant
DDown 8:	Served in the army? Not one joined
DDown 11:	Dancing, a girl hadn't to lose all momentum
DDown 15:	Italian speaking in a whisper
DDown 16:	Respectably neat, is one less likely to be infected?
DDown 17:	Teacher locked up, being wasted
DDown 19:	Assert a company must employ female
DDown 20:	One taking piano course?
DDown 22:	What storms do, circling northern mountains