Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23074 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23074 clues and answers were published on Wed 25 Feb 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23074 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Play hard to get about some drug : COMEDY
4-across – Erotic will become sordid when time has elapsed : STEAMY
9-across – Taffy’s home – right, left and roundabout : LANDOFMYFATHERS
10-across – A key man, not unknown in ancient street : AKEMAN
11-across – Dime reportedly divided in two, as put in by novel schoolteacher : NICHOLAS
12-across – Rodent catcher who can’t stop talking? : RABBITER
14-across – Machine with gamma for chi when deciphered : ENIGMA
15-across – Zero tax on company with backing sheets : OCTAVO
18-across – Game for milkmaid on monument : PATIENCE
21-across – See 11 : NICKLEBY
22-across – Money placed in shot? : PESETA
24-across – Setter’s maternal relations are legally placed, keeping poor Tommy with the ladies : ONMYMOTHERSSIDE
25-across – One exposed as lunatic around the underworld : NUDIST
26-across – Essential part of officer’s report? : KERNEL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – People of intelligence without fun make a bloomer : CLARKIA
2-down – Converter’s way with Frenchman? : MODEM
3-down – Dead skilful about a French college : DEFUNCT
5-down – In sleepy state, take hot slice : TRANCHE
6-down – Love for other – other paid : APHRODITE
7-down – Detectives give weapons to stick on the mast : YARDARM
8-down – National leader : HYTNER
13-down – Plant servant in county : BLACKEYED
16-down – Well in Essex : CHIGNON
17-down – It’s hard to bear when emperor follows round the States : ONEROUS
18-down – Spy out revolutionary loved by 6’s child : PSYCHE
19-down – Piece of advice on genealogy in Essex : TIPTREE
20-down – Strong point of : CITADEL
23-down – See 13 : SUSAN

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23073 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23073 clues and answers were published on Tue 24 Feb 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23073 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – No 7, showing alarming instability : MARGINAL
5-across – Drink current at watering holes : BARSAC
9-across – Fear memory gives short measure : ANGSTROM
10-across – Stick on a Scottish island : STAFFA
11-across – Move officer into counselling service : RELOCATE
12-across – The end of western enlightenment? : SUNSET
14-across – Furious at being made redundant : GOINGSPARE
18-across – Money in Ireland terribly short over here : LANCASHIRE
22-across – With this he cuts designs in lithography : TUSCHE
23-across – Risk over American leader showing the nature of his ambition? : IMPERIAL
24-across – It’s with an eye to requirement by the French : NEEDLE
25-across – Get company in to cork the bottle? : SCREWTOP
26-across – In India it makes me itch : MYSORE
27-across – Put the opposition in to get them out : DECLARED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Some think time a great healer – but it doesn’t amount to much : MEAGRE
2-down – English brew up for feast : REGALE
3-down – Ulster backing diplomacy without a break : INTACT
4-down – The poor sap’s work abused by tradespeople : APOSTROPHE
6-down – What’s obvious to a student is unselfishness : ALTRUISM
7-down – Peterhouse represented at Westminster? : SAFESEAT
8-down – Bishop of a foreign cathedral : CHARTRES
13-down – Exciting romance had led Hector to the altar : ANDROMACHE
15-down – A container in choice metal : PLATINUM
16-down – Grass hen chewed up with teeth : GNASHERS
17-down – Single part transposed by composer : BACHELOR
19-down – Soap sounds corny : CEREAL
20-down – German trying to lose weight : DIETER
21-down – Having gone downhill, Trollopean died : SLOPED

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23072 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23072 clues and answers were published on Mon 23 Feb 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23072 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Soldiers ordered to carry equipment : BRIGADE
5-across – Tower encountered round parts of Iran : MINARET
10-across – Trendy accountant who lived in South America : INCA
11-across – Market researcher on camera : VIEWFINDER
12-across – Miscellaneous collection of biblical characters : JOBLOT
13-across – Incentive to romp in a bed? : LARKSPUR
14-across – Fell – to this cheap sort of price? : KNOCKDOWN
16-across – Ships made fast : FLEET
17-across – A salesman’s pitch : SPIEL
19-across – Lady dines out, showing gluttony perhaps? : DEADLYSIN
23-across – For an NCO such punishment may well involve stripes : CORPORAL
24-across – Ancient stone vessel found in metal wrapping : FOSSIL
26-across – Pretty as a picture : PHOTOGENIC
27-across – One run scrambled in overthrow : RUIN
28-across – Leaves high and dry on the beaches : STRANDS
29-across – Trip and fall following initial slip : STUMBLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – The opposite of praise? Well, no! : RUNDOWN
3-down – A girl in distress sought by Lohengrin : GRAIL
4-down – Dedicated to the faithful : DEVOTED
6-down – Not well employed by company : INFIRM
7-down – Shy relative : AUNTSALLY
8-down – Finish off the job? : EXECUTE
9-down – Don’s touching sympathy : FELLOWFEELING
15-down – Make actor leap about in Shakespearian role : CLEOPATRA
18-down – He foresees a hold-up over the reform : PROPHET
20-down – Loss of business : DEFICIT
21-down – The first sign : INITIAL
22-down – Fine at first, then harsh and cold : FRIGID
25-down – Pushing forwards : SCRUM

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23070 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23070 clues and answers were published on Fri 20 Feb 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23070 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Needleworker accidentally cut up curtains : ACUPUNCTURIST
10-across – Unyielding response entered in record of debates : HANSARD
11-across – Get lady confused with poet : LYDGATE
12-across – Many long stockings contain this : NYLON
13-across – Raised edge is going into space, putting it mildly : EUPHEMISM
14-across – Legally ban illegal stimulants and : ESTOP
16-across – Hot trail in mine led back to military transport : TROOPSHIP
18-across – Make economies, drinking German wine with alarming aftereffect : SHOCKWAVE
19-across – Make second appearance with bishop pocketing old coin : RECUR
20-across – Director has regrets about following British soldiers with American ones : REGISSEUR
23-across – Pious type is able to prove who he is : HASID
24-across – Vehicles containing accountants’ remains : CARCASS
25-across – Theologian hands in books for scrap : ODDMENT
26-across – Use alibi a slob fishily concocted : BOUILLABAISSE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – He painted a European in a boat, mostly : CANALETTO
3-down – Open country without milk : PLAIN
4-down – Undressed, taking note of suggestive gesture : NUDGE
5-down – Ring tone involving proverbial mnemonist : TELEPHONE
6-down – Soviet officer in song is a vegetable? : REDPEPPER
7-down – Religious instructor is eating, belly up : SWAMI
8-down – Much alarmed when lorry passes noisily overhead : THUNDERSTRUCK
9-down – Female : HERMAPHRODITE
15-down – I take endless pains to corrupt a citizen : PAKISTANI
16-down – Coming across party animals in short story : TRAVERSAL
17-down – Martyr receives crest king wrested from touts : HUCKSTERS
21-down – Film star with nothing to boast about : GARBO
22-down – Greek character putting medical qualification on form : RHOMB
23-down – Returned pilgrim’s greeting interrupted by a record player : HADJI

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23069 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23069 clues and answers were published on Thu 19 Feb 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23069 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – 8 22down needs mate to come out on top – heart not in it : CHINATOWN
10-across – Note: constant sex is about building muscles – straight! : RECTI
11-across – Subtly shaded nude composition, admits party : NUANCED
12-across – Bait and tease a groveller : RAGWORM
13-across – Old English land-holder therefore grabs a lot of money : THEGN
14-across – Instrument even cracked by George Michael and Kylie finally : FLAGEOLET
16-across – City venue occasionally spotlighting tattoo artists : EDINBURGHCASTLE
19-across – Perhaps Annie drinks quickly, leading to clashes : SHOWDOWNS
21-across – Popular standard form of a URL needs one : LAURA
22-across – Marine creature managed to back onto itself almost : NARWHAL
23-across – Asylum given over to pauper : HAVENOT
24-across – Turkey portion once one gets round my city’s sports venue : IONIA
25-across – Makes fighters ready to give lives in southern US port to a point : MOBILISES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Head’s unwelcome visitors after school: without enthusiasm, one leaves cutlets : SCHNITZELS
2-down – Blasts inspire a celebrated engraver : PIRANESI
3-down – See 15 : FALCON
4-down – Carbon dating constituent agent allotted three figures : BOND
5-down – Is an intruder seen off grabbing cold fish? : ENCROACHES
6-down – Travel – road up – head out of town along the Boyne : DROGHEDA
7-down – Produce a moving display : SCROLL
8-down – Projected style company, Northern Petroleum, swapping right and left : FILM
14-down – Get on OK : FAREWELLMY
15-down – A 8 22down’s Mediterranean islanders’ river trick : THEMALTESE
17-down – A 8 22down’s result of personal calorie output : BODYHEAT
18-down – Instructed over the phone by Eliot Stretching : TAUTNESS
20-down – Shouting head off when having a row : OARING
21-down – See 14 down : LOVELY
22-down – See 8 : NOIR
23-down – Philosopher said top of the range supports : HOBS

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

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