The Guardian – Cryptic crossword No 29,256 – Dec 18, 2023, Answers
The Guardian – Cryptic crossword No 29,256 – Dec 18 2023
Clues | Answers |
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A hard growth seen on oak | ACORN |
Adds something against eulogies | CONTRIBUTES |
Arsenal supporter heading off into New York women’s house | NUNNERY |
Best, perhaps, granny’s hairpiece | TOPKNOT |
Certificate Foreign Office employee doesn’t complete | DIPLOMA |
Could this suggest daughter only nine? Imagine! | PRETEND |
Died after aerial battle: going to heaven? | SKYWARD |
Eloquent preacher’s year in church | ORATORY |
Extremely plaintive, desperate appeal for money abroad | PESOS |
Foreign character turns up in Paris park | PSI |
Having nothing to face? | CLEANSHAVEN |
Hotel room may have this ban on short skirt | MINIBAR |
It may be close to the church, or a serious distance | GRAVEYARD |
Man a terrible tsar? Not very | IAN |
New to drink, run empire badly | ENPRIMEUR |
Newly initiated into food authority | DIETITIAN |
Clues | Answers |
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Notice love is a great bother | ADO |
Nymph has bedroom that creates sound effects | ECHOCHAMBER |
Perhaps dog at college a bloomer | PETUNIA |
PM meeting an indigenous American | MAYAN |
Put off seeing how library books are displayed? | SHELVED |
S for Sovereign | HEADOFSTATE |
Scotsman, the first person that’s regularly driven over | MACADAM |
Showing arrogance, paid sportsman perhaps duly sacked | PROUDLY |
Something done on the brass perhaps, causing some friction | RUBBING |
Something in the garden for pet owl to chew | FLOWERPOT |
Time for everyone to pass on their knowledge | TEACH |
Tiny vegetable, and not a whole fruit | PEA |
Told a tale about drug being craved | YEARNED |
Two shortly become confused in silly talk | TWADDLE |
Undeserving rich and their pampered pets? | FATCATS |
Unusual way to the mountains | STRANGE |