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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23039 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23039 clues and answers were published on Thu 15 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23039 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Plight of a mischievous child : PICKLE
4-across – Deny agent arranged to get Lincoln out : ABNEGATE
9-across – Material point to occupation : LINEN
10-across – Rate dodge made to seem disreputable : DEROGATED
11-across – Conflict involving sailor in American port : SEABATTLE
12-across – Resort king found more pleasant : NICER
13-across – Honest, but uninteresting, artist wearing strange tights : DEADSTRAIGHT
17-across – Dire straits of doctor led astray by professional show-off : ARTISTSMODEL
20-across – Right for inclusion in theatrical hamper : CRAMP
21-across – Declares that girl’s put on weight : ANNOUNCES
23-across – Do these in sequence in addition to normal job : ONTHESIDE
24-across – Pin said to be for surplice : COTTA
25-across – Preparing sauce : DRESSING
26-across – Fatal attribute of French lady, perhaps : DEADLY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Friend with ideas about fencing : PALISADE
2-down – Brain can confuse a moth : CINNABAR
3-down – Notice nothing up with girl : LINDA
5-down – Spartan life in nudist camp? : BAREEXISTENCE
6-down – Urge to hand over morning to sandwich filling : EGGANDHAM
7-down – Offensive criticism : ATTACK
8-down – Tolerate being close to river : ENDURE
10-down – Resolve to show backbone : DETERMINATION
14-down – Press trip arranged for performers : STRIPPERS
15-down – Taught English money by journalist : EDUCATED
16-down – This dictionary is a grossly muddled publication : GLOSSARY
18-down – Agree to provide cloth on account : ACCORD
19-down – Conductor for children’s entertainment : RATTLE
22-down – Cryptic clue about new relative : UNCLE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23038 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23038 clues and answers were published on Wed 14 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23038 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Crazy single issue president : MADISON
5-across – Far-reaching reduction in military establishment : DEEPCUT
9-across – Salami for the one French revolutionary discussing some of its treatment : LUNCHEONSAUSAGE
10-across – Gloomy otologist? : DREAR
11-across – Diamonds twice the money with stick inserted? : ICEDLOLLY
12-across – Burial places for Manx cat: put another one back in them : CATACOMBS
14-across – Zoroastrians with no leader – that’s where the stress comes : ARSIS
15-across – Live and die initially successfully : DWELL
16-across – Paid back the Queen about a paper disc : DIAPHRAGM
18-across – She’s a living member of a cathedral choir without note : LADYVICAR
21-across – Note on incomplete remedy will not be for the first time : RECUR
22-across – Mitchell’s set sail without having to tack : GONEWITHTHEWIND
23-across – High note, high note, high note : TREBLED
24-across – Figure of 100 in part of New Zealand : OCTAGON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Musical doctor – see within : MELODIC
2-down – Wait carefully: take to the floor at 2200 hrs – again : DANCEATTENDANCE
3-down – Childless woman in charge almost all round : SPHERICAL
4-down – Setter laments rise of Biblical widow : NAOMI
5-down – A spy spied – hence that uncomfortable feeling? : DYSPEPSIA
6-down – Uniform as in railway : EQUAL
7-down – Can’t gas children, possibly, but could be abducting them : CRADLESNATCHING
8-down – Hear those that see; they have it in passing : THEAYES
13-down – Being drugged, perhaps, got married without decree : MEDICATED
14-down – Bear North? Hardly, it’s far from desirable : ABHORRENT
15-down – Pleasure obtained from French fast mover : DELIGHT
17-down – People about to travel in Middle England : MERIDEN
19-down – Letter sent with love : VOWEL
20-down – Proportion in preparation : RATIO

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23037 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23037 clues and answers were published on Tue 13 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23037 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Frank keeps proportion in theatrical performance : OPERATION
10-across – Lack of control in a Hackney report : ATAXY
11-across – Travel through water reflecting assumed identities : ALIASES
12-across – Pork pies provided by house agent : LEASING
13-across – Macdonalds, perhaps, put ecstasy in char : CLEAN
14-across – College support sees no uncertainty : BRASENOSE
16-across – Indians ain’t much moved by old chief with muted war cry : IAINDUNCANSMITH
19-across – Passing trains on network : TRANSIENT
21-across – Legitimate head deposed, which is highly 5 : AWFUL
22-across – Seasonal listening for one awaiting a connection? : VIVALDI
23-across – Feeling of boy getting two ducks? : DESPAIR
24-across – Odd not to get the Guardian, which is a collector’s item : CURIO
25-across – One may get drunk on ale glut or otherwise : LAGERLOUT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Charm is not working for the royal family : MONARCHIST
2-down – Fruits said to cause disease : BERIBERI
3-down – Minister who is soft on crime : PARSON
4-down – A 16 can be lethal : AIDS
5-down – Annual pest can be disagreeable : UNPLEASANT
6-down – Vehicles boy goes in are always late : CADAVERS
7-down – Where a lot of money is lost, but turns up on one’s account : CASINO
8-down – Admiral finished as next to no good : BYNG
14-down – A dart aimed at the bull : BANDERILLA
15-down – Cheer at Sussex town centre – at a price : EXHILARATE
17-down – Reject a girl who’s not Rosy? : DISALLOW
18-down – Pump for Latin translation : INFLATOR
20-down – It describes how 3 turns up in bad form : ADVERB
21-down – A bus broken down on the way is ridiculous : ABSURD
22-down – In place of five diamonds : VICE
23-down – Understands student accommodation : DIGS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23036 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23036 clues and answers were published on Mon 12 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23036 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – The rest of the workers call for help : MAYDAY
4-across – Head dancer? : SALOME
9-across – Use the office keys? : TYPE
10-across – Showed appreciation for creation of co-designer : RECOGNISED
11-across – Support by arms or threaten by them : HOLDUP
12-across – Oral examinations for wine buyers? : TASTINGS
13-across – Misery of a teacher working with horrible head : HEARTACHE
15-across – Property to come down : LAND
16-across – Fools the youngsters : KIDS
17-across – Horror of man beset by terrible spectre : THECREEPS
21-across – Legislation that went against the grain : CORNLAWS
22-across – Its lead decreases and it often draws : PENCIL
24-across – Dance with Jack before everyone retires : TARANTELLA
25-across – I turn to a matter of trivial importance : IOTA
26-across – Vehicle it is illegal to leave in the street : LITTER
27-across – Create goodwill by being a close listener : ENDEAR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Centre of a dance revolution : MAYPOLE
2-down – Submit a return : YIELD
3-down – Roman general has a hold on father : AGRIPPA
5-down – The overflowing craft of poetry : ARGOSY
6-down – Start to make a speech without a single drink : ORIGINATE
7-down – Got together after an important point cropped up : EMERGED
8-down – National emblem put down on the list going out : SCOTCHTHISTLE
14-down – Surplus to requirements and turned off : REDUNDANT
16-down – A professor of infinite wisdom : KNOWALL
18-down – Second man fitting in as chief officer : CAPTAIN
19-down – Artist keeps a boat by the bank : PAINTER
20-down – Wrongly arrest French intellectual : SARTRE
23-down – Innocent one in church body : NAIVE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23034 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23034 clues and answers were published on Fri 09 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23034 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Superlatively fine art suffering : SMARTEST
5-across – Burns doesn’t do any work on book : BLAZES
9-across – Singular health centre surrounded by singular grass : SQUEALER
10-across – Remarkable Scots look round or square : UNCOOL
12-across – Soviet leader in coat no longer politically correct in Belarus : MINSK
13-across – Tough, shrewd and practical hands rode range : HARDNOSED
14-across – There’s parliament – there’s no substitute : THEREALTHING
18-across – Talk for a change about empty apartment : CONVERSATION
21-across – A strange device is better than one with nothing right : EXCELSIOR
23-across – Antelope discovered by Maori biologist : ORIBI
24-across – Hard worker – one familiar with long-term investment? : TROJAN
25-across – Pacifier to go on trial : DUMMYRUN
26-across – Action not premeditated by arbitrator going to law : REFLEX
27-across – Slough keeps articles enclosed : SHEATHED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Heads of Shell and Esso accompany identical oil producer : SESAME
2-down – A smoker in Arbroath turned in by graduates : ALUMNI
3-down – Shortcake mix on athlete’s foot? : TRACKSHOE
4-down – Shippers heed order for food : SHEPHERDSPIE
6-down – Redhead has number left over : LENIN
7-down – From America to Australia, revolutionary modern technology producing garb of the 1940s : ZOOTSUIT
8-down – Logo said to represent herbaceous plant : SOLIDAGO
11-down – Significant development as holiday finished : BREAKTHROUGH
15-down – To love, seek the love of one who’s qualified for business in Queensland : TOOWOOMBA
16-down – Bird, in a manner of speaking, joining other ranks : ACCENTOR
17-down – Nick has to stop work : KNOCKOFF
19-down – One man in a boat looking up old address : SIRRAH
20-down – Was an offender heard in a province of Pakistan? : SINNED
22-down – Don’t touch and go : LEAVE

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

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