This crossword No. 15159 clues and answers were published on Fri 07 Dec 2018 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Quick Crossword No. 15159 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Children’s game with bat and tennis ball : FRENCHCRICKET
8-across – Unpleasantly harsh in sound : GRATING
9-across – Swedish prize-giver : NOBEL
10-across – Unsmiling : GRIM
11-across – Captain Nemo’s submarine : NAUTILUS
13-across – Take-off and landing strip : RUNWAY
14-across – King Edward, for example : POTATO
17-across – Charmed : BEGUILED
19-across – Flat mass of sea ice : FLOE
21-across – Yellow fruit : LEMON
22-across – Compunction : REMORSE
24-across – Stubborn refusal to compromise : INTRANSIGENCE
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Sweet fleshy fruit, often dried : FIG
2-down – Avoidance : EVASION
3-down – Plagiarise : CRIB
4-down – Brandy : COGNAC
5-down – Mechanism firing up an internal-combustion engine : IGNITION
6-down – Capital of Afghanistan : KABUL
7-down – Instrument to magnify the image of distant objects : TELESCOPE
10-down – Italian hero, who led his Thousand Redshirts against the Austrians, d. 1882 : GARIBALDI
12-down – Large Spanish estate : HACIENDA
15-down – Aircraft’s wing foil that controls lateral motion : AILERON
16-down – Red playing cards : HEARTS
18-down – Full extent : GAMUT
20-down – Visible air pollution : SMOG
23-down – Period immediately before : EVE
This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.