The Guardian – Cryptic crossword No 26,859 – Apr 15 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
An hour and two thirds to dress Posh Spice |
CUMIN |
Anti-corruption agency as of now regularly failing |
SFO |
Antlers composed of bone |
STERNAL |
Article read aloud for Queen |
ANNE |
Ban organisation over rackets involving drug and spirits |
UNDINES |
Bottom of league in Cheshire and East Lancashire? |
CHEESE |
Church loves to plug support for education |
SCHOOLING |
Clue 9 as ‘eccentric economist’s acolyte’ |
KEYNESIAN |
Cockney retained or kept old soap from the ’90s |
ELDORADO |
County evacuated after historic forest fire |
ARDENCY |
Cry for attention close to waterfall animated Olive |
OYL |
Despicable file they have finally redacted twice |
FILTHY |
Erotic dancing over seven month time period aiding childbirth |
OBSTETRIC |
Got to know sailors in leathers, half-cut |
LEARNT |
Ignore wife in labour, longing to be back in Scottish islands |
ORKNEY |
It should be impossible to pick husband largely on chum’s tip |
CHUBB |
Clues |
Answers |
Judge supporting embargo on outsize instruments |
BANJOS |
Letter from Scotsman in POW camp returned |
GALATIANS |
Like inhaling air in northern French city |
AMI |
Loveless lad is left confused and alone |
BYITSELF |
More 3 in job scene, reportedly |
OBSCENER |
One in pursuit of raw meat dish |
CHILLI |
Partly believes in Badger, storybook hero! |
SINBAD |
Perhaps catch nothing, upset about cricket practice |
FASTENER |
Pointless snooker shot from John Higgins’s sixth frame of Open |
CANNON |
Run away from stiff brush |
COPSE |
Runs off and weds, unclothed and hungry |
UNFED |
See 14 |
ENS |
Sheepish labourer, first to bathe in the sea at Calais |
LAMBER |
Source gold after gold filling falls out of tooth |
AUTHOR |
Taken aback by a boring legal document, one listing goods |
WAYBILL |
Thought Gide gag no good at all |
IDEA |