The Guardian – Cryptic crossword No 27,480 – Apr 10 2018
Published in The Guardian Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ADULTERATE, BEEKEEPER, CHIMERA, HAMMERANDSICKLE, IMPERIL, PALAEONTOLIGIST, PITFALL, TOUTLEMONDE.
Clues |
Answers |
A boring dim person interested in being a scientist |
PALAEONTOLIGIST |
Belief in crusade is misplaced |
DEISM |
Climax that’s close, if in posh hot pants |
PHOTOFINISH |
Current ebbing for a change |
EDIT |
Daughter admitted to knowing online programs |
ADWARE |
During onset of violence, agreed to be called up |
INVOKED |
Female left male lover carrying a torch |
FLAMBEAU |
Happen to find terrapins at sea |
TRANSPIRE |
Heroin imported by organised crime, a monstrous thing |
CHIMERA |
It could be Mailer’s approach to literature |
REALISM |
Land bordering northern cove |
GENT |
Love fish, eating best marine creature |
OCTOPOD |
Low walls queen knocked over in burial place |
PYRAMID |
Make impure drug, cutting what mature people pay |
ADULTERATE |
Clues |
Answers |
Maybe Irishman gathering lily in bower |
CELLIST |
Misery, as loot gets left |
SPOILSPORT |
Not a sound president backing Arabian kingdom |
SHEBA |
Notice short fascist’s allure |
SEDUCE |
Number that’s square, like four or sixteen |
SEVEN |
Overseer of colony’s alarmed cry, breaking pager |
BEEKEEPER |
Perhaps, like Napoleon, avoiding a risk |
IMPERIL |
Sell fruit outside of Dieppe for everyone |
TOUTLEMONDE |
Spooner’s to install curtain? It’s a potential danger |
PITFALL |
Streams of people arriving like baby Moses? |
INRUSHES |
Suppose it’s round and long |
OPINE |
Tense and feeble, like the rural upper classes? |
TWEEDY |
What physio may use to kill yak making ascent |
ICEBAG |
Working man’s marched like an emblem of his kind? |
HAMMERANDSICKLE |