This crossword No. 709 clues and answers were published on Sat 10 Aug 2024 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Weekend Crossword No. 709 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
6-across – Molly and Leopold Bloom’s home town? : DUBLIN
8-across – Fictional pig created by Ian Falconer : OLIVIA
9-across – Dialectical materialists? : MARXISTS
10-across – A spice, a bludgeon or a type of tear gas? : MACE
11-across – Singer and actor who starred in Moonstruck : CHER
13-across – Nickname for Barnsley FC : THETYKES
14-across – Malian city near the 16 Down : TIMBUKTU
16-across – Africa’s longest river : NILE
17-across – Muslim religious leader : IMAM
18-across – Sweet smelling posies : NOSEGAYS
21-across – Polish city on the Vistula : KRAKOW
22-across – Continent straddling the equator and the Greenwich meridian : AFRICA
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – South Sudanese city on the 16 Across : JUBA
2-down – Animals, which, as Flanders and Swann tell us, ain’t elks? : GNUS
3-down – Jean-Jacques __, author of The Social Contract : ROUSSEAU
4-down – Capital of 16 Down : NIAMEY
5-down – Joni __, who has “looked at life from both sides now” : MITCHELL
7-down – Egyptian city on 16 Across : LUXOR
12-down – Catholic prayer to the mother of Jesus : HAILMARY
13-down – Dame Kiri __, opera singer : TEKANAWA
15-down – Malian capital on the 16 Down : BAMAKO
16-down – River in west 22 : NIGER
19-down – Fiona __, Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter films : SHAW
20-down – Village People hit from 1978 : YMCA
This crossword has in total 24 where 12 are across and 12 are down.