The Guardian – Cryptic crossword No 27,826 – May 20 2019
Published in The Guardian Cryptic Crossword. Tags: ALTHORN, CERN, PM, RECTANGLES.
Clues | Answers |
A short song about aged Greek | ACHAEAN |
Able to move quickly for a take-off in an emergency | SCRAMBLE |
Being obsequious would put Mrs May off | SMARMY |
Bit of paper stuck on yellow garment worn by some women | CHADOR |
Bother in big house having a plant with narcotic properties | MANDRAGORA |
Building block of wood, what’s backed with board in port | ASHLAR |
Commercial to air in busy shopping season | ADVENT |
Crowd is idle, wandering round, to be got going | MOBILISED |
Disappoint others giving first instruction to unload the truck? | LETTHESIDEDOWN |
Feature of Trump and PM putting the Queen off | THATCH |
Fellow curtly abandoning diocese and ecclesiastical groups | CHAPTERS |
Figures in trouble at sea, reportedly Germanic folk | RECTANGLES |
Lacking special apparel, knight is thrown out, not admired | UNADORED |
Last thing you want in head and on collar? | DANDRUFF |
Like school pupil sounding unrelaxed | TAUT |
Old Testament book’s terribly crude and emotional | DEUTERONOMICAL |
One caught entering square reprimanded, treated as trash? | INCINERATED |
One of two Nobel physicists said to swank | BRAG |
Person who is horrible, just a bit, about nothing | TOAD |
Renders Happy Birthday, say, with nicely introduced bumps | SWELLINGS |
Small room, not half brilliant for accommodating superior writer | CUBICLE |
Sunday cruciverbalist, maybe, who has cutting edge? | SWORDMAN |
Symphony offering racy stuff (not Beethoven’s Fourth) | EROICA |
Takes apart splinter group in contemptuous talk | DISSECTS |
Towel I’d discarded, when lots of bits are dry | LOWTIDE |
Untidy employees making a contribution to Warwickshire’s coat of arms | RAGGEDSTAFF |
What could play music in particular key, hard stuff | ALTHORN |
Worry when study is neglected in research establishment | CERN |