The Guardian Cryptic Crossword May 22 2025 Answers (5/22/25)

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword May 22, 2025 Answers

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« May 21 2025 Answers

#	Clue
9A	Beautiful tree: feel bad with any being cut down in such a manner
10A	Wide gap, though with nothing removed
11A	Trendy to inject heroin after a litre drink
12A	The American author eliminating last hero from Greece
13A	I’m a Bishop, tucking into meagre vegetarian food
14A	Uncooked meat? Experts brutally cut it open at first
15A	Is ‘zero’ accepted by English logician? Meaty stuff
17A	Publication I term running short regarding glamour
19A	Offering easy growth in computing? Clear hype’s misplaced
22A	See 13
23A	Something described as metallic burning smell surrounding one …
24A	… largely swamping one with some water?
26A	Keen to abandon Right, adopting Left as standard
27A	Roux perhaps about to backtrack after redesign of kitchen
1D	Artefact of old battle? Bet Valhalla came alive
2D	Government official, large, appearing in bowler?
3D	Easy thing to miss top edge
4D	Drive through South American country with Northern seed
5D	Position occupying excellent section in the current circumstances
6D	Top of sluice losing liquid on a big scale
7D	Convincing information secured in crib
8D	Police operation – dastardly con, apparently
16D	Showed precipitation without precipitation? That’s twisted
17D	Exploit making no sense, kidnapping one farmworker
18D	Beguiling warmth after cold
20D	Servant carrying some Londoner’s scalding soup
21D	Refined behaviour inclined to take a back seat around Cambridge University
25D	Dark and perverted, though not at first

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