The Guardian – Cryptic crossword No 26,810 – Feb 18 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Solutions |
| A contemptible person undermined by support for political activity |
AGITPROP |
| A western pie that’s good cooked |
SPAGHETTI |
| Across top of Tombstone, ride up and take bullet; finally bit the dust |
ATEDIRT |
| Carried too much from Calais, going west |
PORTED |
| Criticise nationwide absence of characters composing in style |
WADEINTO |
| Drink, second as chaser, to West Country |
WALES |
| Firm stem |
STAUNCH |
| From Dakota unto Nevada, somewhere in the West Country |
TAUNTON |
| Going west and not really caring — OK? |
CROAKING |
| Leader of thieves is out of time holding up miners, resisting attacks |
IMMUNE |
| Looked after some of the West End edition |
TENDED |
| Many went to America — the Wild West — to find something to eat |
IRISHSTEW |
| Marshal Earp is given commendation |
PRAISE |
| Nixon, weak even in the Midwest? |
IOWA |
| Clues |
Solutions |
| One lies dead, in a way perfected |
IDEALISED |
| People who get together in cars around London’s West End |
COUPLES |
| Return to fashion? Expert embraces first principles with a twist |
GOBACK |
| Solved a clue for part of the West Country |
SORTEDOUT |
| State in Midwest |
MAINE |
| Unfairly put upon to confess where an American lives |
UPTOWN |
| US drug cops capture one from Mexico — yes, with plants |
NARCISSI |
| West Country project in part of Scandinavia (not the south-west) |
EDEN |
| West Country wench? |
WOMAN |
| West Country’s first to get noticed: mad about it |
OCCIDENT |
| Western set in Oklahoma, product of miners hiding robbers’ ringleaders |
OKCORRAL |
| What would you call Boatman, if he retired in the West Country? |
EXETER |
| Whence dawn breaks in the West Country |
FROME |
| Where one would go to get food for native |
INBRED |