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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21638 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21638 clues and answers were published on Thu 15 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21638 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Diner consumes Sunday feast : EASTER
6-across – Excess of dubious help to artist : PLETHORA
9-across – Party minister backed in speech : VERBAL
10-across – Old resistance fighter given prize by governor : HEREWARD
11-across – Bar terms : LEGALJARGON
15-across – Model left part-time involvement with church dignitary : PRIMATE
17-across – Some baby, small enough to be bottomless : ABYSMAL
18-across – Titanic orchestra playing to order? : ABANDONSHIP
22-across – Sea captain – not half a terrible wretch : BLIGHTER
23-across – Get away – piss off, in common parlance : GOSSIP
24-across – Little by little, a man takes over – he’s over there : AMERICAN
25-across – Inferior competitor follows Cambridge lead – but not so far behind : CLOSER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Lament rise of fear in the party : BEWAIL
2-down – Whereof George is 15 : ALLENGLAND
3-down – They lean precariously in Somerset : ATHELNEY
4-down – Covering letter? : ENVELOPE
5-down – Logis are inappropriate accommodation for concubines : SERAGLIO
7-down – Type of ring to give a friend? : OPAL
8-down – Like have a degree in sums : ADDS
12-down – A mean fellow is not unusual : AVERAGEMAN
13-down – Stress breaking up ship; mate’s lost heart : EMPHASIS
14-down – Lightweight journal? : FLYPAPER
16-down – Pioneer of the web site? : ARACHNID
19-down – Donkey and another old one : NOODLE
20-down – Father participates in Hebrew Sabbath observance : ABBA
21-down – Trick of speaking at length : WILE

This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21637 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21637 clues and answers were published on Wed 14 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21637 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – 3kw, perhaps, to make a strong nation redundant? : FIREPOWER
6-across – Ultimate blow for the Electric Company at the Lizard? : GECKO
9-across – 3-ed MPs met Church of England twice; I lost the drift : SELECTCOMMITTEE
10-across – Betted, backing out-of-form steeplechaser up from Hitchcock film : DIAL
11-across – The devil within the law is not expressed : IMPLICIT
14-across – Female students, one of them in Scots county till sell-by date : SHELFLIFE
15-across – Butterfly provides clue about prince and king getting badly stuck between hard and soft : CHALK
16-across – 10 ephah arrival : COMER
18-across – Hope tuner can make it on cue : THEREUPON
20-across – Brought up by unexpected U-turn at sign of danger : NURTURED
21-across – See 26 : FLAG
25-across – Rides out with complete article about a wing from home base : RESIDENTIALAREA
26-across – Yellow iris the police, without worry, backed with most of … : WATER
27-across – … setting of precious stone: there’s poetry in set of sail : SILVERSEA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Browsed around the Guardian, ready for lights out? : FUSED
2-down – Get a new tenant for free : RELEASE
3-down – Choose a burner of papers? : PICK
4-down – See 3 : WICK
5-down – One who belongs in the grass between 24 and 23s : REMEMBERED
6-down – Diagram of crossword requiring key when one’s stuck : GRIDLOCKED
7-down – Dealt, with two aces, the first of two wales : CETACEA
8-down – Passed green brought in from a tree : OVERTAKEN
12-down – See 10 : MFORMURDER
13-down – Literary lions, classically, are troubles wished on brides : LITTLEONES
14-down – Back protest by centre forwards? : SECONDROW
17-down – Impressionist causing upset to treacher during assembly : MORISOT
19-down – Missile discovered by plough : POLARIS
22-down – Fruit from Antigua vastly overrated : GUAVA
23-down – See 15 : HILL
24-down – See 15 : BLUE

This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21636 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21636 clues and answers were published on Tue 13 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21636 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Heartless shoplifter beats popular cinema : THEFLICKS
6-across – Slew King of the Underworld, backing out : SKID
10-across – Guardian of Tower opposed in rear approach : RAVEN
11-across – Refuted by Donne in the Irish Sea? : ISLEOFMAN
12-across – Make a cartoon about terrorists capturing former African dictator : ANIMATE
13-across – Turned pale at Latin, but passed : ELAPSED
14-across – Demonstrate on unusual instrument : ONDESMARTENOT
17-across – Split up in the haze and take the wrong way : MISUNDERSTAND
21-across – Hun and Inca breaking loose : UNCHAIN
22-across – Would being so suit her? Doubtful : HIRSUTE
24-across – Pets rejected famous Roman’s clipped bits : STACCATOS
25-across – Put up with stockings: turn in : HOUSE
26-across – Grass in a mess : HASH
27-across – Quiet celebrity put out, having to get to work manually : PUSHSTART

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Flavour of salt on cooked organ : TARRAGON
2-down – Message delivered by spoken voice : ENVOI
3-down – Percival’s about to stop fool finding a way to help : LENDASSISTANCE
4-down – Ring artist to get vision : CHIMERA
5-down – The Sun has a gap in funds : SOLVENT
7-down – With skill, initially, Uncle Sam and a king look up old manual : KAMASUTRA
8-down – Strip city slicker possessing two quarters : DENUDE
9-down – Composer displays a measure of energy and resistance, pinching hot-headed woman’s underwear : JOHANNESBRAHMS
15-down – Note celebrity’s comeback for a party : DEMOCRATS
16-down – Worker accepted Lawrence before becoming a fan : ADHERENT
18-down – Dope’s no introduction to narcotics, if taken the wrong way continuously : NONSTOP
19-down – Confused sheep’s turn in the old town : EPHESUS
20-down – Places a Companion of the Revolution : PUTSCH
23-down – It may catch in the throat : UVULA

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21635 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21635 clues and answers were published on Mon 12 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21635 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – A really quiet rest can bring calm : APPEASE
8-across – A butcher may use it to cut credit without permission : CLEAVER
10-across – Code word for ‘S’ is rare in use : SIERRA
11-across – It means raising the subject at the Palace : ACCOLADE
12-across – A natural hanger-on, in a manner of speaking : BURR
13-across – Tender name, perhaps : ENDEARMENT
14-across – Taking such action will not be offensive or illegal : SELFDEFENCE
19-across – Yet such ads are seen by the public : CLASSIFIED
22-across – General’s remains : LEES
23-across – Follow and observe for a two-hour period : DOGWATCH
24-across – Stay and check mother in : REMAIN
25-across – Keep track of warship : MONITOR
26-across – Examining body to many a doctor : ANATOMY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Best that it be raised with mother after work : OPTIMUM
2-down – Present home of the partridge : PEARTREE
3-down – Bolt or lock the cell door to prevent it : ESCAPE
4-down – City investment? : BLOCKADE
5-down – Part of New York Mahler variation : HARLEM
6-down – Title for a chapter in a football manual? : HEADING
9-down – Something wicked and frivolous helps dispel the gloom : CANDLELIGHT
15-down – False story about ringleader can produce bad feeling : FRICTION
16-down – A strike in UK’s financial centre would be a catastrophe : CALAMITY
17-down – Where is this sold? Oh, in the local, perhaps : ALCOHOL
18-down – They may raise people’s spirits : MEDIUMS
20-down – A swift turnaround was considered proper : SAWFIT
21-down – Bold prosecutor takes on a cartel : DARING

This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21633 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21633 clues and answers were published on Fri 09 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21633 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Jail-bait? : PORRIDGE
9-across – A rendezvous at Shaftesbury : AVENUE
10-across – Nice, so they say, stretch of 20 water : FYNE
11-across – See 15 : MACKINTOSH
12-across – It holds one up at last : COFFIN
14-across – A Bolshevik leaning over to include a number back : LENINIST
15-across – After tea Leslie came inside, returning with family rubbish for 20 architect : CHARLES
17-across – 20 city, working gas in radiance : GLASGOW
20-across – This cast no blight on semi-conventional party : SCOTTISH
22-across – See 15 : RENNIE
23-across – Drunken kilty whams a dram … : MALTWHISKY
24-across – … and another, by the sound of it, on a 20 isle, while … : RHUM
25-across – 20 cap some vermouth : BONNET
26-across – It controls drift when Rosie’s apathetic, they say : LEEBOARD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – 20 submarine base reported to be totally secure : HOLYLOCH
2-down – Amerind procreates without benefit of pastor : CREE
3-down – Umpire? He was out at the cinema : ODDMAN
4-down – Rider covers awfully nice first long drawers : PENCILS
5-down – See 20 : NATIONAL
6-down – Symbolic of Japan? Quite the reverse at the end of the day : SETTINGSUN
7-down – 20 smackers? Utter transport! : BUSSES
13-down – It’s to be cast by the sinless Matthew and Mark on being consumed by fervour : FIRSTSTONE
16-down – Terms of article written in a fit of spite : EPITHETS
18-down – Statistician has lost the bill, old boy! I first give notice of being late : OBITUARY
19-down – The opposite of that let out? It’s a prickly one : THISTLE
21-down – Keep talking about the setting of the Ring : CHATON
22-down – Modes of loads of Toad’s odes : RHYMES
24-down – A piece of fleece : ROOK

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

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