The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22769 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22769 clues and answers were published on Tue 04 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22769 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:


9-acrossView to drop work at the back of the 18 : INION
10-acrossDoll swallows a large quantity of 26 : BARBITONE
11-acrossSuperheat boiling water in Asia : EUPHRATES
12-acrossGeneral conveyance : GRANT
13-acrossTangle one, perhaps, gets into from such activity : GENITAL
15-acrossDirection providing no way without conflict : NORWARD
17-acrossLetter conveying resistance to current pressures : OMEGA
18-acrossHead teachers : NUT
20-acrossRule out sliced bread : DEBAR
22-acrossPals die wrestling with poisonous snakes : ELAPIDS
25-acrossOvertures made by boy to girl? : LEONORA
26-acrossImagine 250,000 sheets : DREAM
27-acrossCows spirit in workers : RUMINANTS
30-acrossPut pressure on journalists to drink : PRESSDOWN
31-acrossOccasion for dissent? : NONCE

All Down Clues and Answers:


1-down – With this trouble you need a doctor before becoming able to move : BILE
2-down – Writers inside wrongly get hand out : DISPENSE
3-down – Heavy blow upset gambling centre : ONER
4-down – Plate dropped in ablution plant : ABUTILON
5-down – Birdcage : PRISON
6-down – Did Halliwell perform nothing on an instrument? : DIDGERIDOO
7-down – Steer ran over a Mrs Alexander : ROXANA
8-down – Advanced fast : LENT
13-down – Wood of musical fame … : GROVE
14-down – … great music composed by one of 28 : TRAGICMUSE
16-down – Backs along unmade roads : DORSA
19-down – 8 mean different composer : TELEMANN
21-down – Poet’s weapon : BROWNING
23-down – Primate took up 13 across activity – it’s the tops! : APEXES
24-down – Street area in Kent : STROOD
26-down – Perform athletic activities? The fool! : DOPE
28-down – Some men in back of Morris? : NINE
29-down – Detail of undressed kid taken to court : SUED

This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.

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