The Guardian – Cryptic crossword No 27,407 – Jan 16 2018 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| ‘Pooch! That sweet sauce!’, as Spooner might do well to say |
CUTTHEMUSTARD |
| … guy has a way to avoid legume |
MANGETOUT |
| Appropriate person looking for most prosperous area of the country? |
SEQUESTER |
| Cell for one on the staff, briefly, at Oxford college |
CORPUSCLE |
| Chap in key wager collapses complex mathematical construction |
MANDELBROTSET |
| Cry of joy as overweight girl takes on husband |
HOSANNA |
| During drinking bout, large mixer |
BLENDER |
| Engineers new fabulous figures for property lists |
RENTROLLS |
| Force that turns English out at a yard in town |
TORQUAY |
| Graphically transform most of pain relief |
MORPH |
| Grunt, adjusting corset — it’s no business of the state! |
PRIVATESECTOR |
| Hesiod is truly entertaining poet |
ODIST |
| In scientific study trip miss coach; pity! |
ATOMICPHYSICS |
| India feeds pest with a cucumber preparation |
RAITA |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Led astray and misused a month back |
SEDUCED |
| Legume, very hot, to eat with the others … |
VETCH |
| Lying undisturbed at first in peaceful state |
CALUMNY |
| Male deadlier when swinging the hammer here |
MIDDLEEAR |
| Needle, say, reversed to make lace |
GETAT |
| Old mnemonic device a joke at university |
QUIPU |
| Punch hole in cloth |
CHINO |
| Showing a slight tinge, metal smoked, keeping temperature well up |
TINCTURED |
| So great a number deprived of noble title? |
UNCOUNTED |
| Sow chews end of one waistcoat |
GILET |
| This on table in diner on Level 5 |
CAFETIERE |
| Time went fast, they say; it’s sickening |
BIRDFLU |
| Top of loft in the morning frozen up: that’s beside the point |
DECIMAL |
| Where one may read the news, telling of traffic congestion |
AUTOCUE |
