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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 24th December 2020

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th December 2020. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 7: Drug, one fuelling a short run
AAcross 8: Maverick adoring Zeus or Freyr?RAINGOD
AAcross 9: Crime award inspiring small informal gathering
AAcross 10: Newton, for one, claims the ground
AAcross 12: Heading off rats, bull
AAcross 13: In this, essentially head's torment
AAcross 15: Ultimately ungulates best, Santa employing reindeer, say?
AAcross 16: Runner in early event not starting back
AAcross 17: See 9
AAcross 18: Stay flexible also in motion
AAcross 20: Sticky and coarse
AAcross 21: Drink after drink — one attempting to lift another?
AAcross 22: See 12 down
AAcross 22: See 12 down
AAcross 24: Teller of jokes — one of which in here?
AAcross 25: See 2
DDown 1: Drink in plaudits, audience standingASTI
DDown 2: Christmas favourite, almighty drunken fight?
DDown 2: Christmas favourite, almighty drunken fight?
DDown 3: Crime, through having bagged Yuletide threesome up
DDown 4: Floosie put paper up to decorate spruce
DDown 5: See 2ONHIGH
DDown 6: Kick-start
DDown 11: Romantic joiner confined to cell, panicking over sex
DDown 12: Unpredictable choice between 24 and 20 down?HITOR
DDown 14: Scrawny neck, but no stuffing, put in place
DDown 16: Scrooge's Boxing Day uplifting? That's not the right word
DDown 17: Love collecting first of caterpillars in spring after climbing tree
DDown 19: Upper limit raised in money for holy office
DDown 20: Country bumpkin
DDown 21: Father Christmas, I remembered stocking?
DDown 23: Only part of 6
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