The Guardian – Cryptic crossword No 27,478 – Apr 8 2018
Published in The Guardian Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ADORES, AXON, HABITUES, HAIRDO, RATIONS, TRESPASS, TSAR.
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| 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 |