Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23051 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23051 clues and answers were published on Thu 29 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23051 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Draw into pub where there are shops etc? : INTOWN
4-across – Avoid terrible pest over the course of fateful day : SIDESTEP
9-across – Like celebration heartlessly wild across the street : FESTAL
10-across – Fail to collect runs with ball keeping low : GROUNDER
11-across – Cheerer stopped getting excited – no words coming directly : REPORTEDSPEECH
13-across – Smart when beset by a soreness – bit of salve is appropriate : APPERTAINS
14-across – Writing on the wall round gents : OMEN
16-across – Want servant you rejected to be dismissed : LACK
18-across – Likely to provoke legal proceedings in a court – one with bail broken : ACTIONABLE
21-across – See 2 : AYTHERESTHERUB
23-across – Drug given name – very cold round object swallowed : NARCOTIC
24-across – Great fictional character has guns near : GATSBY
25-across – Covered building retains warmth : SHEATHED
26-across – What’s brilliant about the old horse? It has stamina : STAYER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Dodgy moment after the leader’s been deposed : IFFY
2-down – Old PM, drunk, knocked over seat? Act done carelessly! He must be rare hearty fouling up lines on stage : TOSLEEP
3-down – Bore should keep quiet about what Iraq seems to have lacked! : WEAPONRY
5-down – I do wrong upsetting the person who needles me – I just want to get my own back! : IRREDENTIST
6-down – Furnishes Head of Entertainment with jokes : EQUIPS
7-down – See 2 : TODREAM
8-down – See 2 : PERCHANCE
12-down – Old right-winger gives yon revolutionary service : THATCHERITE
13-down – Girl band given a special day in the calendar? : ALLSAINTS
15-down – Be too unemotional maybe, contriving heartlessly cold nature : UNDERACT
17-down – Camp bed overlooking lake : COTERIE
19-down – Zero cloud cover is still theoretical : BLUESKY
20-down – Counter is part of chemist’s equipment : RETORT
22-down – Philosopher is always right : AYER

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23050 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23050 clues and answers were published on Wed 28 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23050 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Sculptor trying Job’s patience : JACOBEPSTEIN
8-across – Dummies scoff at good times : MOCKUPS
9-across – Contract bridge player’s ploy : SQUEEZE
11-across – Noodles one provided with game or cheese : SAPSAGO
12-across – Salesman is not to put on new coat : REPAINT
13-across – Craftiness that is ____ I rate as misrepresentation : ARTIE
14-across – Votes about further education? About Desperate Dan! : REFERENDA
16-across – Opium-eater you would back to bear fruit : DEQUINCEY
19-across – Viz gives advice on how to use a trailer : TOWIT
21-across – Unearth little jumper that’s quite French : ROOTOUT
23-across – Craftsman less inclined to work after midnight : GLAZIER
24-across – Villains crazy about article by Lawrence : BADHATS
25-across – Italian city in a different country : ROMANIA
26-across – They claim pal is suffering with stress : EMPHATICALLY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Luck of the draw for man on grass? : JACKPOT
2-down – Military expedition caused havoc with capture of Richard I : CRUSADE
3-down – See one store in unfinished block : BISHOPRIC
4-down – Model problem : POSER
5-down – Shaking the rump makes rabbit animated : THUMPER
6-down – Ireland’s first chief of police in Russia joins Pole from part of southern Europe : IBERIAN
7-down – Such robbery from handbags mars outing : SMASHANDGRAB
10-down – Appliance for one who likes old farm vehicles? : EXTRACTORFAN
15-down – Nice cop, perhaps, impounding unknown substance derived from seaweed or fungus : FLYAGARIC
17-down – Former question by university don agitated and upset graduate : QUONDAM
18-down – Line marked on chart revealed his boat at sea : ISOBATH
19-down – Transport Gibson in hamper : TRAMMEL
20-down – Holiday money spent abroad is raised in Houston : WHITNEY
22-down – Try to get up about five to see telly : TVSET

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23049 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23049 clues and answers were published on Tue 27 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23049 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – cccccc aaaaaa tttttt? : THREELINEWHIP
10-across – Endless financial support not starting around end of May : UNDYING
11-across – Italian dish with instruction underneath in Italian : RISOTTO
12-across – Chop back, chop, remove centre right : EXACT
13-across – Worm turning to red meat : TREMATODE
14-across – Layer around left layer : TILER
16-across – O’Connor clutches swooning lady in lust, perhaps : DEADLYSIN
18-across – Entry into Baghdad wasn’t about overthrowing of government, so has come apart : UNCOUPLED
19-across – Star inside nebula : DENEB
20-across – With heads rolling, a desire for one’s own to do so? : DEATHWISH
23-across – Nut cuts star in half : BETEL
24-across – Ringer, a monster : CHIMERA
25-across – Not all the book, but about right : EXCERPT
26-across – Man, the soldier : GUANTANAMOBAY

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Around university hardly in trouble: one caught and given type of suspension : HYDRAULIC
3-down – I’d say women are for cooking and ironing, get decapitated, but live : EXIST
4-down – Smoker’s request made for dieting : LIGHT
5-down – Guardian over issue is unarmed when edited : NURSEMAID
6-down – Manilow finally worried, having offered Silent Night : WASSAILED
7-down – Opening bars, take penny off drink and bar won’t close : INTRO
8-down – Bear much about non-A1 communications medium – blame him? : RUPERTMURDOCH
9-down – What do you want from us, Tony Blair? Give over! : GOVERNABILITY
15-down – Clue for when without refinement : ROUGHHEWN
16-down – In retirement, a country boy follows a spiritual man : DALAILAMA
17-down – Atmosphere’s raised about bodily form, losing my patients here : SANATORIA
21-down – Gilded cube is so long : ADIEU
22-down – Beast with desire in its brief call? : HYENA
23-down – Fine young beast brought up to become young man : BUCKO

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23048 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23048 clues and answers were published on Mon 26 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23048 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Regroup in large formation : REALIGN
5-across – Retire with the magazine section : PULLOUT
10-across – Sailor boy in his hammock : ABED
11-across – A halting apology? : LAMEEXCUSE
12-across – A jolly girl for the Fleet : ARMADA
13-across – What Cinderella became after twelve? : TEENAGER
14-across – Goes from house to house soliciting for bits of bread : DOORSTEPS
16-across – Inclines to be quixotic? : TILTS
17-across – A wound made with a point that’s sharp : ACUTE
19-across – Cover for soldiers in scrap beset by enemy at summit : FORAGECAP
23-across – Sweetheart who kept on sending Christmas presents : TRUELOVE
24-across – Check provided in extreme care : VERIFY
26-across – The merry-go-round instrument : HYGROMETER
27-across – Corner disallowed : NOOK
28-across – Ten, fuddled with drink, weave around : ENTWINE
29-across – Does it help some men to forget? Yes and no : MEMENTO

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Stop and go after amber changes : EMBARGO
3-down – Employ new daily woman : LYDIA
4-down – Dashing chap with exotic tan on cheek : GALLANT
6-down – Odd vigil held by distraught nun : UNEVEN
7-down – Though a pound short, victualler may be making a profit : LUCRATIVE
8-down – News put out and the dust allowed to settle : UNSWEPT
9-down – Useless demonstrations of hunger marchers? : EMPTYPROTESTS
15-down – Adverse criticism of Boat Race is overridden : ROTTENROW
18-down – Continue to make a fuss : CARRYON
20-down – Contrary commercial jingle : ADVERSE
21-down – A slight but not trivial offence : AFFRONT
22-down – General, as Commanding Officer, wearing a decoration : COMMON
25-down – Scope for target practice? : RANGE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23046 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23046 clues and answers were published on Fri 23 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23046 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Take risks to get chilled fish? : SKATEON
5-across – See 1 : THINICE
9-across – Agile and casual, but not to begin with : LITHE
10-across – Reveal something involving a girl in non-alcoholic drink : TELLATALE
11-across – Euston, for example, is joined to a railway still : STATIONARY
12-across – A Hindu bear? : YOGI
14-across – I harm things terribly – it’s like a bad dream : NIGHTMARISH
18-across – Crossworder has a change of heart about more than one country : CROSSBORDER
21-across – Unopened cyclopedia contains description of sound system : EARS
22-across – 1400 hours or 1500 hours for a few : TWOORTHREE
25-across – So that it’s possible to ride or not with a switch : INORDERTO
26-across – Chaste girl degenerates about noon : AGNES
27-across – Start in a new activity by walking in the rain? : GETONES
28-across – See 27 : FEETWET

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Place in band for trumpet : SPLASH
2-down – Wrong when on salver : ASTRAY
3-down – It’s seen wandering round a tree, says the Observer : EYEWITNESS
4-down – Unacceptable, whichever way you look at it : NOTON
5-down – Do a letter correctly and it will be accepted : TOLERATED
6-down – Russian bed without a head : IVAN
7-down – I’m starting, so I’ll have sago with tumbleweed : ISAGOGIC
8-down – Ability to see very well inside the boat : EYESIGHT
13-down – Incentive to get cover for the tea table : CARROTCAKE
15-down – Acts of charity performed in sizeable factory : GOODWORKS
16-down – Blow the whistle to keep hands going round : SCREWING
17-down – Upright troops do when scattered : DOORPOST
19-down – Before this is carried in the Renown : ERENOW
20-down – Pad in which to make love and then rest : BEDSIT
23-down – Type of switch, worn and disconnected : ONOFF
24-down – Eastern place of work or play is paradise : EDEN

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

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