Tuesday, October 9, 2018

The Guardian - Cryptic - Oct 9 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
Backing group snaffled your drink once!	TETHYS
Crew perform on string instrument	MANDOLINE
Develop primarily loud threatening sound	GROWL
Dispatch a group of ordinary people across Costa Rica	ALACRITY
Every year top performance pulls in crowd for musical	PAJAMA
German thriller writer's better	GAMBLER
Girl landed up in control of parents	MATILDA
I'm surprised leading couple quit play	HELLO
Jack hopes to work for old carpenter	JOSEPH
Lapp cut stats about unknown secret publishing	SAMIZDAT
Lift rug running round European hotel	WEIGH
Marx brother tours a grand city	CHICAGO
Odds on 26 papers like the Globe	SPHEROID
Pilot who dreams where some pigeons are heading?	HOMEWARDS
Playwright collecting villain's carving	SCRIMSHAW
Poems lack energy describing mother's heart beats	RHYTHMS
Revolutionary faction like some tobacco	CHEWING
Rising river swamps women's course	SWEET
Sailor shrouded in faint glow at night	STARLIGHT
See 24	GAME
Small old coin cracks desirable mirror	SPECULUM
Song about working is set on a pedestal	LIONISED
Soprano cast agree about is fat	GREASE
Star in Fiddler on the Roof	HERO
Talks about a son and daughter's early years	SALADDAYS
Traveller makes tracks round Arab state	ROMANY
US subject accepts Queen's Award for Drama	MACBETH
Washington's sidekick nearly fools poet	HAMILTON
Where to take in salty air and a sleep, possibly	ESPLANADE
Wife killed nursing king's evil	WICKED