The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22021 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22021 clues and answers were published on Thu 05 Oct 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22021 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


1-acrossIndecent exhibitions seen through tinted glasses : BLUESPECTACLES
9-acrossHe takes something out of old farm vehicle : EXTRACTOR
10-acrossCondescend to sound like a foreigner : DEIGN
11-acrossLift is warm on the outside : HOIST
12-acrossDuck with very strong heart is not quite in the middle : OFFCENTRE
13-acrossUnpractical person laying scheme on table : IDEALIST
14-acrossNot there to see sailors with net out : ABSENT
17-acrossBe opposed to the end : OBJECT
19-acrossThe Spanish can nip back to the top : PINNACLE
22-acrossForeshadow a silent tear, perhaps : ADUMBRATE
24-acrossMoulding solo voice partly in the wrong way : OVOLO
25-acrossReturn, for example, no article from Italian city : GENOA
26-acrossOutstanding professional first met in oriental book? : PROMINENT
27-acrossToo accomplished a speaker for moral part to be wrongly construed : PLATFORMORATOR

All Down Clues and Answers:


1-down – Fruit of battle to get round mountains : BLENHEIMORANGE
2-down – Open out by ordering tun – sherry, perhaps? : UNTWINE
3-down – Fashionable drink first consumed by one trying to be clever : SMARTALEC
4-down – Turned out to be right sort, bursting into flower : EXTRORSE
5-down – Squabble about Arabic list of customs’ duties : TARIFF
6-down – Anxiety about deuterium nucleus : CADRE
7-down – Record is let out in letter : EPISTLE
8-down – Receiving treatment in accordance with article by physician? : UNDERTHEDOCTOR
15-down – Soldier losing head rashly after veto on shoulder belt : BANDOLIER
16-down – Send cable on creature that’s a garden pest : WIREWORM
18-down – Newspaper diary : JOURNAL
20-down – Least ardent boy taking bird out : COOLEST
21-down – Poetess making simpleton hop about : SAPPHO
23-down – Brag about neckwear on the way : BOAST

This crossword has in total 28 where 14 are across and 14 are down.

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