Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23025 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23025 clues and answers were published on Tue 30 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23025 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Meditating for all that time … : THOUGHT
5-across – … how Medusa’s snakes may be put on? : ASSUMED
9-across – Paint roller covers passage initially : INTRO
10-across – Pickpockets – parasites and fools : DIPSTICKS
11-across – Wisdom displayed by King George, say, as a golfer : GREGNORMAN
12-across – Electrical safety device for explosive lighter : FUSE
14-across – This deflected battle spear : BREASTPLATE
18-across – Odd people in error in Eden : ORIGINALSIN
21-across – Tots turn round : NIPS
22-across – Lawman going round capital to discover pests : MOSQUITOES
25-across – Translate name found in prettier version : INTERPRET
26-across – Wise random number generator : ERNIE
27-across – Former philosopher has daughter brought to light : EXHUMED
28-across – Others must have a right to turn over a new leaf : RESTART

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Understand heartless guy following model : TWIGGY
2-down – Shop exit : OUTLET
3-down – This will attract fish during boat trip : GROUNDBAIT
4-down – Trade union leaders stick up for royal family : TUDOR
5-down – A parish priest puts up rates : APPRAISES
6-down – Vision in audio place : SITE
7-down – He wrote about the past master having gold buried in earth : MACAULAY
8-down – Norfolk town always separate : DISSEVER
13-down – Spirit of revolutionary beasts? Extremely serious! : SPUNKINESS
15-down – Spoony, perhaps, with stirring demeanour : ENAMOURED
16-down – Reduce filler and stiffener : DOWNSIZE
17-down – Haste makes waste : DISPATCH
19-down – Cockney instrument for Trollope : JOANNA
20-down – Insist upon a sure thing for the auditor : ASSERT
23-down – Queen meeting a sailor in the country : QATAR
24-down – Concert for Maidenhead : PROM

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23021 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23021 clues and answers were published on Tue 23 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23021 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Priest and curate outed, leading to schism : FRACTURE
9-across – Term for Clinton without Lewinsky to begin with : HILARY
10-across – Old painter’s abridged reflection : AGED
11-across – Big blow that enabled Joshua to cross the Jordan? : PILEDRIVER
12-across – English apt to brew with it : TEAPOT
14-across – A bit on the floor with a couple of girls : TESSELLA
15-across – Invective of one caught in traffic : TIRADE
17-across – Conflict was about capital : WARSAW
20-across – Latin and French, these novels : ROMANCES
22-across – Afghan ordered to shut up : PUSHTU
23-across – Rose gets hairdo in a state : FLORIBUNDA
24-across – State of bewilderment said to last a while : DAYS
25-across – Whitehall begins to take a stand – such words are misleading : WEASEL
26-across – Teaches to see about accepting old money : EDUCATES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A bit about Steptoe and Son in the paper : FRAGMENT
2-down – Drug used in medication? On the contrary : ACID
3-down – Though not great writing, it gets published here : PULPIT
4-down – Untidy hairdos emanating originally from old colony : RHODESIA
5-down – Old sect, first appearing important through glasses : ALBIGENSES
6-down – River or spring : ORWELL
8-down – Old tool – hole could be made with it : EOLITH
13-down – Hairdos with some style – but understatedly cool : PERMAFROST
16-down – Monotreme with nothing on account : DUCKBILL
18-down – Power to depend on rising, so he rose : WATTYLER
19-down – Interest in making a name in American establishment : USANCE
21-down – No lime squash found on a rig : OILMEN
22-down – Spin fever in the capital : PRAGUE
24-down – Part of Shrove Tuesday taken up with a tot : DRAM

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23020 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23020 clues and answers were published on Mon 22 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23020 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – No rare bird, best seen around at Christmas : ROBINREDBREAST
9-across – One and all included in the celebration, but not completely : PARTIALLY
10-across – Hesitantly stated colour of Santa’s hat and was wrong : ERRED
11-across – He grasps a policeman on the way back – it will mean time : EPOCH
12-across – It ensures you won’t be spotted having Christmas dinner : SERVIETTE
13-across – Watches Rose dancing – horrors! : EYESORES
14-across – In this way, there’s a sort of thaw – but who cares? : SOWHAT
17-across – A number tucked into a bird in the inn : TAVERN
19-across – Find crab near Australian city : CANBERRA
22-across – Christmas fare from the Argentine : TANGERINE
24-across – I dine out with a music group : INDIE
25-across – It may be snowy when this bird is born : OWLET
26-across – Went around singing carols, yet complained about a wise man’s transport : WASSAILED
27-across – Charming marriage after this nursery guardian’s spell in panto : FAIRYGODMOTHER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Formal protest about a gift : REPRESENTATION
2-down – How prices are displayed by pub laws : BARCODE
3-down – Hour being struck for close acquaintance : NEIGHBOUR
4-down – Registered requirements for presents, getting one finally in consequence : ENLISTED
5-down – Shop’s agents or customers at the January Sales? : BUYERS
6-down – Emile provides something fragrant – could be myrrh : ELEMI
7-down – Eke out the bird : STRETCH
8-down – It opens up as Christmas approaches : ADVENTCALENDAR
15-down – This is an essential part of a player’s score : OBBLIGATO
16-down – Showed touching affection under the mistletoe? : CARESSED
18-down – House includes an ice cream flavour for dessert : VANILLA
20-down – Drawer for the Christmas presents? : RUDOLPH
21-down – Panto dame’s outsize accoutrement makes her an important person : BIGWIG
23-down – Accept an invitation and stop being an outsider : ENTER

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23018 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23018 clues and answers were published on Fri 19 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23018 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Recorder nearly set about cheat : SCRIBE
4-across – Indicate a rough measure : FINGER
9-across – Scene: boozer – Gere playing a skinflint : EBENEZERSCROOGE
10-across – In the latrine, thermometer is lower : NETHER
11-across – Kindly person to see : HUMANELY
12-across – Bone in the doctor’s fish? : STURGEON
14-across – Beads in a sorry state : ROSARY
15-across – Leaves flanking old game : QUOITS
18-across – Following light raise beat softly : REARLAMP
21-across – Bareheaded, going after crooked horse : SKEWBALD
22-across – Pretext about our lot being in the river : EXCUSE
24-across – What’s bestowed on Hood and Thurber, say, in confusion missing the point : BIRTHDAYHONOURS
25-across – Get less recoil : SHRINK
26-across – Happened a month back to the Spanish leading lady : BEFELL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Jeb’s cut out part of sentence : SUBJECT
2-down – Smuggled companion into farm : RANCH
3-down – Fantastic sounds of an Eastern marketplace : BIZARRE
5-down – Johnny-come-lately means resistance : INCOMER
6-down – Evidence of railroad plant : GROUNDSEL
7-down – Soldier going up-river with a pistol : REGULAR
8-down – Old city feature, a ragamuffin : URCHIN
13-down – Soft fall? : RAINWATER
16-down – Relaxes with a French aroma rising : UNKNITS
17-down – Status detailed for substitute : STANDIN
18-down – Look after the ruddy whiskey! : REDEYE
19-down – Dreadful openings to American Westerns – everybody singing open mouthed and enthralled : AWESOME
20-down – Part of Mimi’s tra-la-la-ing is bluster : MISTRAL
23-down – Many adore a little garlic : CLOVE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23017 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23017 clues and answers were published on Thu 18 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23017 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – As a primate gives blessing to one during party : BABOONISH
10-across – Get knotted, scorer! : RAVEL
11-across – Having spokes injected with carbon is basic : RADICAL
12-across – Switches between kind of shirt and topless swimwear : TOGGLES
13-across – Reflective lines, say, in city : ELEGY
14-across – Mini modified genera of seaweed : CARRAGEEN
16-across – High Street employees after those lifting items? : STOREDETECTIVES
19-across – Repulsive pants and saintly features restrict sex lives : HALITOSIS
21-across – Leading United and excited : ONEUP
22-across – King Edward exploited having the royal habit : ERMINED
23-across – One getting into old film star’s bodice : BUSTIER
24-across – PM Blair’s heart shaped bread : PITTA
25-across – Cooler to swing? Nonsense! : FANDANGLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Superman’s from Brum: hence Lois’s terminal dithering : UBERMENSCH
2-down – Daniel’s mate sleeping at Newcastle region game : ABEDNEGO
3-down – Sensitive Tynan’s missing relative with that hurt inside : TOUCHY
4-down – Miss having new top and bunting : CIRL
5-down – Lessons to be learnt when Carreras and chums lose 10-0 : THETHREERS
6-down – Loudmouth Simpson’s without Josh – good : BRAGGART
7-down – Develop gun : EVOLVE
8-down – Advantage of puzzle lacking number and name : PLUS
14-down – McBain enters Leicester High, fed up : CHEESEDOFF
15-down – Interested party prone to tangle with Krays : NOSYPARKER
17-down – National schoolboy gobbling seconds : ESTONIAN
18-down – Estate agents’ examinations : VIEWINGS
20-down – One’s no right to go in off them : LIMITS
21-down – Legendary bard, Ms Phillips, goes after map makers : OSSIAN
22-down – Public showing of Blake’s final version of Windows with Duck : EXPO
23-down – Plump knight’s gone thin : BONY

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

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