The Guardian – Cryptic crossword No 27,475 – Apr 4 2018
Published in The Guardian Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ACID, EMBOLDEN, EXTRA, GREYSUIT, SECEDE, TESTICLE, UNFROZE, Zambia.
| Clues |
Answers |
| Badger king’s lacking coil-shaped vegetable |
BROCCOLI |
| Church members’ ways are about its conversion |
METHODISTS |
| Cried out: ‘Potassium in drink!’ |
CIDERKIN |
| Curios once associated with ears (advanced) |
EXOTICA |
| Dries out properties that are distressing to be in |
DIRE |
| Drug user represented by a police chief |
ACID |
| Dual power priest involved in version of Buddhism that was full of gas |
ZEPPELIN |
| Exercises, that’s the thing between drinks! |
SITUPS |
| Guided element of a type of display |
LED |
| Inner Greenland is in her itinerary, being cut off |
DISINHERIT |
| It shows drug’s ‘up’ times |
SEX |
| Italicised ‘twirls’ not practical |
IDEALISTIC |
| Left beside a large, imposing gate |
PORTAL |
| Major organisation, with Zambia in fore, oddly reacted to global warming? |
UNFROZE |
| Medium, right before ‘goodbye’ cut off |
RADIO |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Old composer’s lark given voice? |
BYRD |
| Place in natural shade |
PURPLE |
| Political supporter’s note secured in advance |
COMMIE |
| Produced a tinkle, inverted and low |
DEEP |
| Run one of the film crowd |
EXTRA |
| See 10 |
HEAD |
| See 26 across |
STRAITS |
| See 5 |
MAIDEN |
| Shakespearean character’s pieces |
PISTOLS |
| The young Thatcher’s terrible means of punishment? |
IRON |
| To encourage old men, be dishevelled! |
EMBOLDEN |
| Uncontrolled movement in tempered steel nut |
TESTICLE |
| Understand about the month having turned, so withdraw |
SECEDE |
| Unseen decision-maker’s habit: getting drunk Earl to join clubs, maybe? |
GREYSUIT |
| Unvarnished truth that prairie dwellers need to be aware of? |
PLAINFACTS |