The Guardian – Cryptic crossword No 27,478 – Apr 8 2018
Published in The Guardian Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ADORES, AXON, HABITUES, HAIRDO, RATIONS, TRESPASS, TSAR.
Clues |
Answers |
Multi-faceted dons exercise and do legal work |
PROSECUTE |
Actor representing genuine class |
ALECGUINNESS |
Adolescent’s first kiss touching a bit of a nerve |
AXON |
Amicably finish with girl after 24 hours |
FRIENDLILY |
Arachne cries, seized by desire for surge of naughtiness |
CRIMEWAVE |
Blue-eyed boy’s rebellious action |
STEP |
Buxom little Maureen’s turning into lad |
BOSOMY |
Conclusion of movie, Three Kings, skirting over inaccuracy |
ERROR |
Curse love, a source of troubled hearts |
OATH |
Did butterfly, perhaps, lead to illumination for mystic? |
SWAMI |
Expand section of integral network retrospectively |
ENLARGE |
Grasses break up topsoil at last, taking ages |
STOOLPIGEONS |
I hoard bananas in beehive, perhaps |
HAIRDO |
Kitty finally got fit in leisure facility |
POOLTABLE |
Massive column with rope around |
COLOSSAL |
Clues |
Answers |
Mescal made skipping maidens go up the wall |
ESCALADE |
More open as a poker player? |
BLUFFER |
Mum and daughter collect underwear I dropped and put it on |
MALINGERED |
One helping Turkey and half of Uzbekistan start to thrive |
ASSISTANT |
Ready for service, nuns gambolled every now and then |
USABLE |
Regret eating extremely purgative Indian bread |
RUPEE |
Roots of St Ignatius Loyola, soldier and absolutist |
TSAR |
Scotsman’s armpit bitten by fox terrier |
OXTER |
Stay with the wretched Daniel, say |
PROPHET |
Stroke heads of beagles eagerly advancing in anticipation |
BEFOREHAND |
The Spanish shunning sex and food |
RATIONS |
They are frequent visitors, but he is a vagrant |
HABITUES |
Very French attempt to seduce is wrong, legally |
TRESPASS |
Worships alto and soprano after quarter of an octave |
ADORES |
Yankee puts on silly voice, regardless of what happens |
INANYEVENT |