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 |