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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21749 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21749 clues and answers were published on Mon 22 Nov 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21749 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Drop a note when in difficulty : SCRAPE
4-across – Big run on a famous Swiss bank : CRESTA
9-across – A feature of Sicily and French North Africa : ETNA
10-across – Educational institution where homework comes before discipline? : PREPSCHOOL
11-across – She has pain from one side to the other : RACHEL
12-across – Mean error puts it just off target : NEARMISS
13-across – How seasick people feel on disembarking? : BETTEROFF
15-across – Boss seen in a boiled shirt : STUD
16-across – Boring makers of laws : AWLS
17-across – A cottager going out may wear it : GREATCOAT
21-across – Proposal made by pilots before landing : APPROACH
22-across – Naturally cold state, but sweet when baked : ALASKA
24-across – Made claim that was upheld : MAINTAINED
25-across – Pubs names one’s made a case for : INNS
26-across – Despicable person possibly got time inside : TOERAG
27-across – Put up with being last : ENDURE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – It’s to be found in the estate agent’s brochure : SITUATE
2-down – Make master, finally, a head : REACH
3-down – Turns up in chilly surroundings yet well received : POPULAR
5-down – A car’s crashed and left by villain : RASCAL
6-down – Graphic new form of catechism : SCHEMATIC
7-down – Stimulated to use a rod, perhaps : AROUSED
8-down – Cheap transport : PENNYFARTHING
14-down – But for this, life would be unbearable : TOLERANCE
16-down – Used when a path’s relaid round top of the lane : ASPHALT
18-down – Leave a bar with a university man : ABANDON
19-down – Question one about point that’s not straightforward : ASKANCE
20-down – Capital city – the big smoke? : HAVANA
23-down – Last word to the French about to expire : ADIEU

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21747 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21747 clues and answers were published on Fri 19 Nov 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21747 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Plant with a sting stuck in the chimney : LABURNUM
5-across – Jack on the way to distant climes? : ABROAD
9-across – Five small English bays suitable for tiny vessels : VEINLETS
10-across – Stuck with History Man : PASTED
12-across – Dexter changing sides develops a delicate touch : LIGHTHANDED
15-across – Catches the blows : HOOKS
17-across – My love, for the record, is starting training as a muscleman : MYOLOGIST
18-across – Measure topless girl by sight : OPTICALLY
19-across – Alien following cat around with hymnal music : MOTET
20-across – Fetch Ron the rum after that : THENCEFORTH
24-across – Pander to wit : HUMOUR
25-across – Small insect, one in a pudding in Chile : SANTIAGO
26-across – Remains of drug in fertilizer : POTASH
27-across – Mechanical writing found to be lacking in diversity : TYPECAST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Reportedly bright criminal devised means of support : LIVELIHOOD
2-down – Fabulous thornbird holds key to Shropshire town : BRIDGNORTH
3-down – Slater turned up, having been fired again : RELIT
4-down – Free upstanding girl: two students have turned clumsily around : UNTRAMMELLED
6-down – Meeting place with offer of food and lodging : BOARDROOM
7-down – Curse that’s old hat, possibly : OATH
8-down – At Carthage she saw the sights for nothing : DIDO
11-down – Noisy cry said to be caused by a personality trait : IDIOSYNCRASY
13-down – Old curiosities cross to the New World : VICTORIANA
14-down – Two chits – right? – required for the plant : STITCHWORT
16-down – Garden tool Tiger hauled into the Bishop’s office, pursued by Bear? Almost! : SECATEURS
21-down – Archaic song, loud yet madly out of tune : FYTTE
22-down – Buy such talk? : SHOP
23-down – Bellies up! Bit of rudeness : SMUT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21746 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21746 clues and answers were published on Thu 18 Nov 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21746 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – The trick is to categorise the companion : CONSORT
5-across – Old-style exam turned the heat on old-style forfeit : ESCHEAT
10-across – Commotion in place of confinement : STIR
11-across – Beats American childrenÕs game in Three Sisters : FUSTIGATES
12-across – Classical mantrap thatÕs never been touched : VIRGIN
13-across – A couple get put through and cut off : AMPUTATE
14-across – Wild Man of the East in the gallery chasing some Parisian : DESPERADO
16-across – Look hurt when cold drink goes round : WINCE
17-across – It gives edge to drinks round : STROP
19-across – Cleaner copies including past papers : COLDCREAM
23-across – Middle bit of Yorkshire-manÕs fish tail? : ENDOCARP
24-across – Feature of middle age or newspaper : SPREAD
26-across – Five wanting the evensong transposed to a sacred site : STONEHENGE
27-across – Headless donkey in the vortex : EDDY
28-across – BirdÕs better suited to Cartesian co-ordinates : APTERYX
29-across – Semi-staged, The Talking Bird requires staying power : STAMINA

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Pickets in silhouette? : OUTLINE
3-down – Show indifference by being quiet on the mat : SHRUG
4-down – Make allusion about popular distiller : REFINER
6-down – Philby infiltrates one of his ilk, supplying inadequate cover : SKIMPY
7-down – The man to make adjustments receives greeting from the fitter : HEALTHIER
8-down – Germ-free secret agents up for apprehending part of tribe : ASEPTIC
9-down – Touring Greece, perhaps, oneÕs purchases include real estate : ISLANDHOPPING
15-down – Make declaration, I say, before church : PRONOUNCE
18-down – Casual dress in the turret, maybe : TANKTOP
20-down – Decline to eliminate odour? : DESCENT
21-down – Best thing to do to the Titanic when thereÕs an orchestra playing : ABANDON
22-down – China animal given fodder : CATHAY
25-down – Discharge ambassador in peculiar circumstances : RHEUM

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21745 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21745 clues and answers were published on Wed 17 Nov 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21745 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Blue swallow found on shed : DOWNCAST
5-across – Managed to cheat millions by chance : RANDOM
9-across – Scold great man touring the West End : TERMAGANT
11-across – Spike is to pop back round : PITON
12-across – Somewhere between flights, bar which pilots use? : LANDINGSTRIP
15-across – Some pianoforte chords reverberate : ECHO
16-across – Running water experiment for use in manufacturing : INDUSTRIAL
18-across – Where, on sea-battered point, you get back trouble? : EASTANGLIA
19-across – Kiss a number, coming back round after that : NEXT
21-across – Sensuous performance, gut reaction to good news? : BELLYDANCING
24-across – Can return in American groups : UNITS
25-across – Imagine going to dig being fantastic? : DREAMLIKE
26-across – The most sensible sink is French : SAGEST
27-across – Bones and leeks cooked by weight : SKELETON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Tax office : DUTY
2-down – Caution if climbing pole and inexperienced : WARN
3-down – Credit note with tax on is for neckwear : CRAVAT
4-down – Rule about GI with gun, trained and acting as a sentry : STANDINGGUARD
6-down – Pop up and put it in fitting : APPOSITE
7-down – Decide you need time at home when caught in the act? : DETERMINED
8-down – Manage to improve upon lap a minute : MANIPULATE
10-down – Insincere language invol-ved with insolence : TONGUEINCHEEK
13-down – In this area theres a house Bert rebuilt : HEREABOUTS
14-down – Cheating companion, one taking money : CHISELLING
17-down – Songs about plays in Greek island : CALYPSOS
20-down – Brutal for a short time? Thats up to Capone : ANIMAL
22-down – Student first to reach table : LIST
23-down – Japanese buyer about a quarter interviewed : SEEN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21744 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21744 clues and answers were published on Tue 16 Nov 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21744 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Prove right, merely by changing book to Kipling poem : JUSTIFY
5-across – One disposing of irritations following Labour Party round : FLYTRAP
9-across – Express boarded by Latin Society : WORLD
10-across – Magistrate’s conflicting votes left America in recession : PROCONSUL
11-across – Big, big band in organ rendition : BROBDINGNAGIAN
13-across – Serviceable fellow rejected northern banker : OUSE
14-across – War and Peace personified: not I – the king’s old gamekeeper : WARRENER
17-across – Round the twist or up the pole? : DUENORTH
18-across – The Animals may initially make a persistent noise! : ZOOM
21-across – Besotted, they pop without introduction up chapel! : THEHAPPYCOUPLE
23-across – Great conqueror’s kiss collected by a beautiful youth : ALEXANDER
24-across – Essential part finally bottled? : VITAL
25-across – Clear drama enacted on court? : NETPLAY
26-across – Fool’s eating bitter plant off the wall! : BERSERK

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Two little women with start of lock jaw : JOWL
2-down – The lead for which one was unprepared? : SURPRISEELEMENT
3-down – Badly behind, missing third payment, ultimately still owing : INDEBT
4-down – Young professional lady’s ending up tart? : YUPPIE
5-down – In terror, disorderly go to pumps? : FOOTGEAR
6-down – Volunteers of yore, with many suffering : YEOMANRY
7-down – Chambers won’t have an entry here, if you’re lucky! : RUSSIANROULETTE
8-down – One retiring medic follows another back into queue behind Dad – or Mum, for example : PALINDROME
12-down – Commercial transport showing considerable stress : GOODSTRAIN
15-down – Number 50 secures bye to last place in quarter-final – my pleasure! : NOTATALL
16-down – Like a fool, puts up with way layabout behaves : STUPIDLY
19-down – That is a horse beetle : SCARAB
20-down – Show fear – this is a case for Robin Hood : QUIVER
22-down – Adverse criticism almost to the end of the scale : FLAK

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

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