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 |