The Guardian - Cryptic crossword August 20 2010 crossword clues & answers

Crossword Solver >The Guardian - Cryptic crossword > Aug 20 2010

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword Aug 20 2010

Clue	Answer
A particular Christian's superior, last to admit evil	BLIGHT
Act to stifle silly chat, being aloof	DETACHED
Act, oarsmen being in trouble in US river	SACRAMENTO
Baby at home keeping silent? On the contrary	MINUTE
Be impertinent to artist and priest in Beaconsfield	DISRAELI
Bearded author with script showing old instruments	SHAWMS
Charm of AR's successor repeatedly evident	GRIGRI
Conductor offering drinks to travellers, maybe!	BUSBAR
Conservative religious school into very big tricks	COZENS
Core feature of a tragedian's word to criticise 24-25's 11s	MIDDLE
Decay of one beset by worries	CARIES
First person (terrible) to hold company back (like 11s slammed by 24-25)	MEDIOCRE
Henry joins in expression of disapproval, missing nothing	CATCHALL
It's natural to keep in step and fail to be vibrant	STAGNATE
Meat good for offering to pagan god	GAMMON
Note (as the answer here) female's assessment of certain 11s (24-25's)	MIDDLECLASS
Official order to blockade islands when there's a disturbance	INCIDENT
One's held in custody — in poorer health, about to catch cold	ESCROW
Part of 24-25's description of management post for the audience	MALE
Recovered from booze, not wanting any brought in	BETTER
Say that's beyond the bounds of fool!	SANITY
See 24	PORTER
See 4	AGED
Tarnished record embarrassed one ex-Tory PM	DISCREDITED
The way beer satisfies a journalist	STREET
Thinking no more of winning? In favour of coming first!	FORGETTING

Anagrammer Crossword Solver is a powerful crossword puzzle resource site. We maintain millions of regularly updated crossword solutions, clues and answers of almost every popular crossword puzzle and word game out there. We encourage you to bookmark our puzzle solver as well as the other word solvers throughout our site. Explore deeper into our site and you will find many educational tools, flash cards and plenty more resources that will make you a much better player.