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 |