The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22312 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22312 clues and answers were published on Wed 12 Sep 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22312 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


1-acrossRecord snub : PUTDOWN
5-acrossMoth getting by without extreme poverty : BEGGARY
10-acrossConcerning wild oats : ASTO
11-acrossTudor drink : BLOODYMARY
12-acrossDogfish on film : BASSET
13-acrossRolled gold ware of inferior quality : LOWGRADE
14-acrossPriest, perhaps, making well-known person fulminate : CELEBRANT
16-acrossInsulting language from American imprisoned by Lincoln : ABUSE
17-acrossCoal remaining at the end of three months : EMBER
19-acrossAlmost 50% treasure birds : OSTRICHES
23-acrossScale for winds in the open air : ALFRESCO
24-acrossPreserve the end of past prestige : CACHET
26-acrossSaucy book planted before man of brass : HERBALPERT
27-acrossClothes worn back-to-front for game : BRAG
28-acrossOdysseus’s first demand – to hold you once like a Cyclops : ONEEYED
29-acrossCell material in heart of young Rudge : BARNABY

All Down Clues and Answers:


2-down – Steal the limelight from the coach to London : UPSTAGE
3-down – The medicine goes down : DROPS
4-down – Composer crossing street to see lexicographer : WEBSTER
6-down – Supplies the same in every way? : ENDOWS
7-down – Adhesive setting for tooth and tongue : GUMARABIC
8-down – Screen left out round solderer : REREDOS
9-down – Group playing north or south lost Elgin marbles, perhaps : ROLLINGSTONES
15-down – River and seafood the French found atrocious : EXECRABLE
18-down – Scottish promontory with a German plant : MULLEIN
20-down – Biscuit loaded with leaves? : RICHTEA
21-down – We blame knitter for small woolly jumper : EWELAMB
22-down – Yseult’s other name is Old English : ISOLDE
25-down – Murderer outside second-class compartment : CABIN

This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.

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