The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26442 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 26442 clues and answers were published on Sat 13 Dec 2014 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26442 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


9-acrossMake children harp on about heartless shade : PROCREATE
10-acrossShow disdain for fortune-teller’s adopted name : SNEER
11-acrossName of a range of tawdry goods artist produces : TATRA
12-acrossBefore noon, steal into courtyard on which criminals get out : PROBATION
13-acrossSunblock for friend keeping oars moving : PARASOL
14-acrossCause corruption of French composer embracing upstart : DEBAUCH
17-acrossLeonardo’s Painted Lady — love poem that’s big in China? : LISAO
19-acrossOvercooked? Not at all : WAR
20-acrossPiping like a pig with no head? : REEDY
21-acrossProduce image of inverted boy : SCANDAL
22-acrossPhysically challenged person’s cold wavelet : CRIPPLE
24-acrossOrder: eyes left? right? whichever way you like? : FREESTYLE
26-acrossSported outside hospital : WHORE
28-acrossEvidence of damage to Spain : SCARE
29-acrossCheeky about 5 being skint : INSOLVENT

All Down Clues and Answers:


1-down – Evinced contempt for minor dispute : SPAT
2-down – Wanting a beer mat : COSTER
3-down – Weapon offering promise of American woman? : BROADSWORD
4-down – Tunnel of sorts, putting 24 down on a plate of sorts : CARPAL
5-down – Registrar’s pipe : RECORDER
6-down – Land mass held back by Karzai’s Afghanistan : ASIA
7-down – Incomplete command interrupting virgin’s attention to extremities : PEDICURE
8-down – Me neither, on reflection : IRON
13-down – Fundamental problem of stately buildings : PILES
15-down – Ring to secure termination of father-in-law’s dodgy old partition : BERLINWALL
16-down – Gap filled by unknown astronomer : HOYLE
18-down – Celebrity outdoes returning long-distance traveller : SPACEMAN
19-down – Noted rider to tread on bird’s nest, topless : WALKYRIE
22-down – Understand revolutionary interrupting revolutionary : CHEESE
23-down – Bird providing introduction to Petrushka’s sweetheart : PLOVER
24-down – Discounting deception, life is death, ultimately : FISH
25-down – Offspring’s letters returned : SEED
27-down – Unspecified ordinal number restricted by obsolete letter : ENTH

This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.

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