The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3865 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 3865 clues and answers were published on Sun 08 Nov 2020 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Everyman Crossword No. 3865 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


1-acrossStunt-performing actor given key for automotive device : CRUISECONTROL
8-acrossEndlessly booed scordato member of orchestra : OBOE
9-acrossCourse sped around with appropriate safeguards : DUEPROCESS
10-acrossComposer’s name called out : HANDEL
11-acrossIntoxicated faun to make incursion, being fearless : UNAFRAID
12-acrossDoing borders of Hawaii, then either border of Woodstock : HANDIWORK
14-acrossEldest of children usually expressed pretentiousness : AIRS
15-acrossBig cheese regularly chills : ICES
16-acrossKerfuffle before token of love offered on vacation lovingly, lovingly : ADORINGLY
20-acrossDry in the morning; before start of afternoon, Italian’s knocked back liqueur : TIAMARIA
21-acrossSomeone with a lisp’s shy, becoming talkative : MOUTHY
23-acrossVet’s confused after duck escapes holding underwear : STRINGVEST
24-acrossSinger’s keen on retiring : DIVA
25-acrossCheered and chased off something from Somerset : CHEDDARCHEESE

All Down Clues and Answers:


1-down – Primarily ‘correspondence’: arcane Biblical beliefs; Abrahamic literature absorbed? : CABBALA
2-down – Whereby unpleasant burden is exclusing reek, primarily? : UBEND
3-down – So Dad’s starter comes on a salad? Something bad will inevitably occur : SODSLAW
4-down – Wildly cheered queer car that’s had good and bad times : CHEQUEREDCAREER
5-down – Some forsaken or waylaid in the country : NORWAY
6-down – Going back to find suspicious Puerto Ricans denied tap dancing : RECURSION
7-down – Fool with slander, perhaps, about young women : LASSIES
13-down – ‘Milk a deer’? That’s freakish, surreal : DREAMLIKE
15-down – Unwise to assemble 3rd, 7th, 9th, 20th, 22nd, 27th & 28th pieces from Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich : IDIOTIC
17-down – Mum’s overcome by strain when game’s played again : REMATCH
18-down – Corrupt chevalier’s heading off, abandoning one French city : LEHAVRE
19-down – Run into tree? Everyman would, becoming unresponsive : FRIGID
22-down – Fun duet; ‘side splitting’? … a bit much : UNDUE

This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.

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