The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 31st May 2024

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 31st May 2024. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Old TV station introducing original character of Phoebe to Friends	ALLYPALLY
AAcross 10:	Knocked about and flayed, most feverish fight
AAcross 11:	Weed guzzling vodka initially, then claret, hung over
AAcross 12:	A meat cut for seafood
AAcross 13:	Stone in middle knocked out of game
AAcross 14:	Some idle chat about nation in western Europe, leader bringing democracy to country further east
AAcross 16:	Figure detailing the pain of spelling?
AAcross 17:	Essentially vocal void, national anthem	OCANADA
AAcross 19:	Prison meal, awfully cold
AAcross 22:	See 3 Down
AAcross 24:	Ground where building of a hotel interrupted by flock of geese?	THEOVAL
AAcross 25:	Beethoven’s Fourth eclipsed by the one before – exciting stuff?
AAcross 26:	Red flag appropriated by Centre, Labour heading to the right?
AAcross 27:	Really a lagoon needs emptying out – 99%?	NEARLYALL
DDown 1:	Scrooge’s nemesis, perhaps, from Thatcherism’s far right? No!
DDown 2:	Where radioactive material handled, zero fed to British beef?	GLOVEBOX
DDown 3:	Corporation in fight, yet switched on
DDown 4:	Fifty during shift working for club
DDown 5:	Why parking has blocked English city back road, say
DDown 6:	Capital wretched under leader in Sunak, a country upset about that
DDown 7:	Content leaving skirt and dress, flasher?
DDown 8:	A warren circled by bears and bull, OMG!	TOTESAMAZEBALLS
DDown 15:	Needle in crypt cut through stone
DDown 17:	Headless shape, disembodied woman often asked in for test
DDown 18:	Singular inequity ultimately in redistribution of capital
DDown 20:	Policeman, stripper
DDown 21:	Something brewing perhaps in Licence to Kill epic
DDown 23:	Very merry marine