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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23032 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23032 clues and answers were published on Wed 07 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23032 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Stonewall against the Australian blast in epic performance : BLOCKBUSTER
9-across – Pleasantness shown in matey arrangement : AMENITY
10-across – City church’s inner nature : ESSENCE
11-across – Part of the joint where the spat took place? : ANKLEBONE
12-across – A farmer’s endlessly active : AGILE
13-across – Serving of venison sent back in the function : SINE
14-across – Tube to get the pulse going? : PEASHOOTER
16-across – Potentially hot stuff to teach in art school : ANTHRACITE
19-across – Look at drill going to-and-fro : PEEP
21-across – Riffraff finally ignored the rules : DREGS
22-across – In trouble if I left AA as associate : AFFILIATE
24-across – Put on uniform as a sign of rank : CHEVRON
25-across – Wishing to have leaderless soldiers competing : ENVYING
26-across – Firm demolished flats internally with determination : STEADFASTLY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – How one gets set when making an announcement : BREAKINGTHENEWS
2-down – Twist a bit off the tree : OLIVE
3-down – Part of the lock at wharf, we hear’s a dump : KEYHOLE
4-down – It’s no good to economise : USELESS
5-down – One with the will to try a rocky height : TESTATOR
6-down – Produced by cricketing father and son, naturally? : RUNSINTHEFAMILY
7-down – Birds with bird sounds to a degree : MACAWS
8-down – The space traveller’s remote after being set off : METEOR
15-down – Safeguard the wildlife enclosure : PRESERVE
16-down – Snatch from sailor with a pipe : ABDUCT
17-down – How to keep a wild echidna? : CHAINED
18-down – Stuff with metal core at bottom of river : TAFFETA
20-down – Place on the border needing a sign of security : PLEDGE
23-down – Officer goes round most of cricket ground in a shade of green : LOVAT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23031 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23031 clues and answers were published on Tue 06 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23031 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Patient support for tasteless plot : SICKBED
5-across – Seafood that’s the object of heart-warming exercise : COCKLES
9-across – Boy from Northern Ireland turned outside : ERNIE
10-across – Enclosure for farm animals or duck, almost Dickensian inside : SHEEPCOTE
11-across – Bridge hands in training get something to write on : PARCHMENT
12-across – Ruler keeping nothing back from cook : ROAST
13-across – A less than meaty bit of science paper, pejoratively speaking : SCRAG
15-across – Drop them! – proverbial expression in Asian city : BOMBSAWAY
18-across – Adaptable character making mess of clean home : CHAMELEON
19-across – Get hold of deceased VIP : NABOB
21-across – Understood to be coming back somewhat tosticated : TACIT
23-across – Force to renew involvement with fruit : GREENGAGE
25-across – Italian recipe involving one chicken’s head to be plucked : PIZZICATO
26-across – Prove equal to the contest : MATCH
27-across – Doubts this planet’s seen 7 : WONDERS
28-across – Unconventionally packaged spirit aurally recounted by 23 down? : TINDRUM

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Trumpet’s first to be replaced by piano in chamber groups raised in flat landscape : STEPPES
2-down – Heard someone doing wrong song – Where the Dead Men Go : CINERARIA
3-down – Woodworker’s companion : BEECH
4-down – Broadcaster dropping by to take bearings and mislead : DISSEMBLE
5-down – Do talk about Spain! : CHEAT
6-down – Decoration for eunuch holding a knight up : CAPARISON
7-down – Money wrapped in note to scrubber : LOOFA
8-down – With charm and cunning, taking little time : SWEETLY
14-down – Regrouped after Geri’s London catastrophe : GREATFIRE
16-down – Skin trouble salesman gets from vegetable : MANGETOUT
17-down – Dramatist receiving degree from IT officer : WEBMASTER
18-down – Puppet producing a lot of litter? : CATSPAW
20-down – Conductor, oddly, became hot : BEECHAM
22-down – 5 down with firm religious ethos : COZEN
23-down – Novelist and teller of tales : GRASS
24-down – Sister admits Shed is God : NUMEN

This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23030 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23030 clues and answers were published on Mon 05 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23030 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – We run by building in Berkshire : NEWBURY
5-across – Idler putting newspaper inside towel : DRIFTER
10-across – See 27 : BELL
11-across – Songster of field and frolic : MEADOWLARK
12-across – Weary with a line from The North Wind : BOREAL
13-across – Competent scholar embraced by non-drinker takes cover : TABLEMAT
14-across – Said to be genially drunk on a wee whisky, a piece of exaggeration : MELODRAMA
16-across – Woody’s a lad accepting return of heartless kiss : BOSKY
17-across – Like the garden, all awry : ASKEW
19-across – Approaching a denouement after one politician is threatening : IMPENDING
23-across – Student taken in by unfamiliar expression from America : NEWWORLD
24-across – Cast from the seat of kings, reportedly : THROWN
26-across – Nonchalantly dispel time restriction : SPEEDLIMIT
27-across – Mum’s gong for developing muscles : DUMB
28-across – From maybe a mishap, emerges radiant : BEAMISH
29-across – Estate workers, including gardeners, finally dive into the river : DEMESNE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – It’s unsightly to look resentful : EYESORE
3-down – Sudden increase in the openings of bars under local government encouragement : BULGE
4-down – Bishop accepts blame surprisingly for Rose : RAMBLER
6-down – Angular figures seen by house doctor in Rhode Island : RHOMBI
7-down – Lie when expressing surprise, say, about educational establishment getting in meat : FALSEHOOD
8-down – Set aside final ace and prepare to do battle with a pair of kings : EARMARK
9-down – He always takes her part! : PANTOMIMEDAME
15-down – Crush gets too much for wife at steering wheel : OVERWHELM
18-down – Soak in the Spanish architectural feature : STEEPLE
20-down – Dub with style : ENTITLE
21-down – Actor Paul keeps the Sabbath; he helps to spread the word : NEWSMAN
22-down – Sings of the Yorkshire flowers : TRILLS
25-down – Game not started by a back : RIDGE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23028 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23028 clues and answers were published on Fri 02 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23028 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – A Schubert composition is capital : BUCHAREST
6-across – Society follows better customs : MORES
9-across – Stop one sweeping : AVAST
10-across – Someone gets a letter – a general form of communication : PARTYLINE
11-across – A good match for Quasimodo? : DEADRINGER
12-across – Grass is set : BENT
14-across – Composition represented in recital : ARTICLE
15-across – Jerk catches service fellow in run : TRAFFIC
17-across – Note a bit of twisting in sharp instrument : CURETTE
19-across – Partner embraces English girl to restore harmony : MEDIATE
20-across – A swimmer’s assistant : AIDE
22-across – Hold good person in favour before sour person : BOSTONCRAB
25-across – Idol eats ancient royal plant : GOLDENROD
26-across – Terribly inane markswoman : ANNIE
27-across – Oxygen absorbed in smaller amount of clay deposit : LOESS
28-across – Hide experienced soldiers during exercise : PARCHMENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Agreeable company consumes port : BLAND
2-down – Bond eats a cold kidney : CHARACTER
3-down – It’s found in an old Balkan country, this fuel : ANTHRACITE
4-down – Loss of writers in river : EXPENSE
5-down – Annoy people being in the wrong : TORMENT
6-down – A county in Virginia : MAYO
7-down – Put up and soundly knock down : RAISE
8-down – Speculation over report about Tory parade : SPECTACLE
13-down – The way a mug may be brought up : GARDENPATH
14-down – One holding money in both hands in Russia : ARCHANGEL
16-down – Scent badger in the country : FRAGRANCE
18-down – ‘e obtained epitaph to flatter ‘imself : EGOTRIP
19-down – Killer disposed to drama : MATADOR
21-down – 500 tinkers endlessly investigate : DELVE
23-down – Sovereign tucking into buffet gets bellyache : BLEAT
24-down – Dirty canteen : MESS

This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23027 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23027 clues and answers were published on Thu 01 Jan 2004 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23027 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

5-across – Balance a vessel containing cold drink : SCALES
6-across – Pleased about a note, but certainly didn’t look pleased : GLARED
9-across – Get wrinkled serving men into condition : CREASE
10-across – Attractive binding : ENGAGING
11-across – Interior decoration gives many trouble : DADO
12-across – Schooled in cunning with much effort : STRAINEDLY
13-across – Recent stage production of The Spy : SECRETAGENT
18-across – Advise colleague in casual fashion : INFORMALLY
21-across – Some furniture – a desk etc – for study : READ
22-across – A few words in condemnation : SENTENCE
23-across – He going off, as the French say : LEAVER
24-across – Darted about and arranged some deals : TRADED
25-across – An animal’s lair amid rubbish : RODENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – An American Indian chief could make a long story longer : SAGAMORE
2-down – Staggers outside quietly and drives away : REPELS
3-down – Blocking promotion : PLUGGING
4-down – Talk of an Irishman – soft rascal : BROGUE
5-down – Mark, a good man, associated with rake surprisingly : STREAK
7-down – Note fish hang about : DANGLE
8-down – Hunter might well go ahead : DEERSTALKER
14-down – Prompter dealing with the baby-sitter? : REMINDER
15-down – Tells of an arrest being wrongly ordered : NARRATES
16-down – A little crawler joining the currently popular party : INSECT
17-down – When overdue, a lot of books may be hidden : LATENT
19-down – Dreadful lout, a Western desperado : OUTLAW
20-down – Cry out in pain, being chicken-hearted : YELLOW

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

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