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 |