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Guardian Cryptic Crossword #22743

Guardian Cryptic · 28 clues with answers and explanations · 2003-02-01

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Across

1 Create "Ye Glum Old Sailor"? Somehow he did! (6,6,9)

Answer

SAMUEL
4 Spike one's dram? (6)

Answer

SCOTCH
9 See 1 (15)

Answer

TAYLORCOLERIDGE
10 But it is! (6)

Answer

OBJECT
11 Bible reformer with the old stony face imprisoned (8)

Answer

WYCLIFFE
12 Did the late Yorick top himself with it? (8)

Answer

SKULLCAP
14 Forgers at work here in El Greco's view (6)

Answer

TOLEDO
15 Hothead's class of yacht (6)

Def

yacht

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DRAGON
18 Home ground for strictly personal development? (8)

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BACKYARD
21 Rare find uncovered beyond the rainbow's end (5-3)

Type

Anagram

Expl

anagram of RARE + FIND = INFRARED

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INFRARED
22 Memorials here to the Queensland Terriers? (6)

Answer

CAIRNS
24 Composer recalled one to gory accident (9,6)

Answer

COLERIDGETAYLOR
25 The Spanish O'Connor taking time with first-born (6)

Def

first-born

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ELDEST
26 Post-1989 activities here extramural? (6)

Answer

BERLIN

Down

1 Jesuits get frenzied without a bishop and hide cat! (7)

Answer

SJAMBOK
2 Film director's note: "Hold everything!" (5)

Def

Film director

Answer

MALLE
3 Capricious apostate! Idle bounder! (7)

Def

Capricious

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ERRATIC
5 Crop of redundancies at Henley? (7)

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CREWCUT
6 Idly examine one bottle left within (9)

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TRIVIALLY
7 Well-nourished senior G-man (4-3)

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HIGHFED
8 Would speak of return to work with the backing of the Mills Brothers (3-3)

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DOOWOP
13 Man of fashion fled in panic after royal rebuff (9)

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LAGERFELD
16 Children's author at the end of the road without a new series (7)

Def

Children's author

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RANSOME
17 Nymphs' names around before Psyche (7)

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NEREIDS
18 Grew old and died raising wine for sale here (6)

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BODEGA
19 En which to cook oeufs tart? (7)

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COCOTTE
20 What cereal smugglers do on the Manchester Ship Canal? (7)

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RUNCORN
23 Tennyson wrote the same lines about "Journey's End" (5)

Answer

IDYLL