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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23016 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23016 clues and answers were published on Wed 17 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23016 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Part of the catch suffered cut : HADDOCK
5-across – Sanitising agents for scouring passages : CENSORS
10-across – Perhaps sandal or shoe accessory : TREE
11-across – It’s put on when the shadow is lifted : AFTERSHAVE
12-across – Universities working in agreement : UNISON
13-across – One could be ready for Nemesis : RECKONER
14-across – Girl, Lily, drunk in a familiar bar : AMARYLLIS
16-across – Biblical name for Eliot’s heartless mariner : SILAS
17-across – Jumbo’s dangerous when at it : LARGE
19-across – A good boy devoured the whole lot : AGGREGATE
23-across – Station at Vichy looks cut off : WATERLOO
24-across – Caine Mutiny originally flickered here : CINEMA
26-across – Free connection could bring you into such discussion : CONFERENCE
27-across – A couple in the news? : ITEM
28-across – Second bid to seal off quarantine : ISOLATE
29-across – Looks like tension initially in muscles : ASPECTS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – LETS, perhaps, be intimate in the morning : ACRONYM
3-down – Put flags on battered red ship : DRESS
4-down – … or 5 on the remote waterway : CHANNEL
6-down – When Richards was batting, he showed grace : ENRICH
7-down – Student choosing otherwise would still have it : SCHOOLING
8-down – Troubled, I arrive here for a seaside holiday : RIVIERA
9-down – The first words of the novel Train Spotting : STARTINGPOINT
15-down – Mournful note – Greek playing flute : REGRETFUL
18-down – Lady-killers? : AMAZONS
20-down – A game for dodgers? : RACKETS
21-down – English politician in trial uproar : TEMPEST
22-down – Poet with little time for wine : CLARET
25-down – Green French water welling up : NAIVE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23015 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23015 clues and answers were published on Tue 16 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23015 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Seafood without rooster won’t be finished : COCKLES
5-across – Tube vehicle backed into one article and another : TRACHEA
9-across – A cinema movie’s not bloody enough : ANAEMIC
10-across – Check fly, perhaps, having caught end of zip : INSPECT
11-across – Criminal has to serve one’s time : DISHONEST
12-across – Dance with male during refrain : STOMP
13-across – Dance, its Latin origin central : SALSA
15-across – Yes I can, yet both sides dubious : CERTAINLY
17-across – Infer anger by prisoner? The military might : FIREPOWER
19-across – Dance with beat and vitality : TANGO
22-across – Dance in row : BRAWL
23-across – A letter P’s compound, potassium compound : SALTPETRE
25-across – Dance a Greek character passed round : LAMBADA
26-across – Well, just ask! : SOLICIT
27-across – 6 heading off returning for meal, almost full : REPLETE
28-across – Model also interrupting drink, don’t show for date : STANDUP

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Dance with hideous scar, down up : CSARDAS
2-down – Vilified child supporters accepting endless praise left after having words : CLAUSAL
3-down – Dance second, something stretched round : LIMBO
4-down – A higher lower? : SACREDCOW
5-down – Dance with Rick : TWIST
6-down – Brown Tony’s leader? Under the fool one’s second : ASSISTANT
7-down – Dance? They say we did with topless dress! : HOEDOWN
8-down – Check when one’s gone past you, having come to grief : AUTOPSY
14-down – Concerned with second opinion, awfully pale, keeping quiet, then dead : APPELLATE
16-down – Caught dodging racist slur about countrymen : RURALISTS
17-down – Nameless bone in substance virtually like another : FIBULAR
18-down – Having lost our way, might this be useful in Jerusalem? : ROADMAP
20-down – Spotted, though lacking decoration : NOTICED
21-down – Dance with love at home to record : ONESTEP
23-down – Dance with Arab, say : SHAKE
24-down – Dance with Dot : POLKA

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23014 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23014 clues and answers were published on Mon 15 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23014 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Out-of-the-way place for unusual monopoly : ODDCORNER
10-across – Quick drink, right? : ALERT
11-across – He makes adjustments more suitable to modern times : ADAPTER
12-across – Paying high regard to a party combination : ADORING
13-across – Artist returning companion’s bow : ARCH
14-across – American women honour old weapon : BROADSWORD
15-across – Wanted revolutionary to support sideshow : DESIRED
17-across – Handover of French meat : DELIVER
19-across – Sailor having to go round with singer : NELSONEDDY
22-across – Pass back to leading brain in power group : BLOC
23-across – To have a nincompoop in charge is unwise : IDIOTIC
24-across – Wine Scotsman has terrible itch to swallow : CHIANTI
26-across – She brings back some piece intact : NIECE
27-across – Foresight shown in quiet homework : PREVISION

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Club to suit elderly monarch? : ROYALANDANCIENT
2-down – Bold behaviour from publisher : ADVANCES
3-down – He entertains a lot : HOST
4-down – Ray, perhaps, uncovering rare find : INFRARED
5-down – Protect girl from the fleet : ARMADA
6-down – Party song about America : CAROUSAL
7-down – Sheep doctor in Ireland : MERINO
8-down – Point to orders actor should obey : STAGEDIRECTIONS
16-down – Ridgepole representing ceiling to actor : ROOFTREE
17-down – Took away pipe? Indeed! : DEDUCTED
18-down – Farewell to Inca characters from Spanish city : VALENCIA
20-down – Hang about to see strange rite : LOITER
21-down – Evade issue : ESCAPE
25-down – Fair Isle’s flower : IRIS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23012 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23012 clues and answers were published on Fri 12 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23012 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Expression of surprise following books for the play : OTHELLO
5-across – Die to complete the training : PASSOUT
9-across – Broken leg, we hear, could adjust one’s speed : GEARWHEEL
10-across – Girl with bad back after a ball : OLIVE
11-across – The senator’s own alliance : NATO
12-across – Machine : CHECKMATED
14-across – The way to go round using a permit : BYPASS
15-across – Pedal in church the French set in order : CELESTE
16-across – Butterfly man? : PUCCINI
18-across – Sweet nothing when one displaces hydrogen : NOUGAT
20-across – Make known that an ambassador almost dined : ANNUNCIATE
21-across – British soldier returning in ship : BRIG
24-across – ‘esitate with time to turn aside : AVERT
25-across – Big room one left untidy – a mess : IMBROGLIO
26-across – Two of these for a match? : ELEVENS
27-across – Carries out one’s personal belongings : EFFECTS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A noted publication : ORGAN
2-down – Well! Fancy lathe being seen in hospital yard! : HEALTHY
3-down – Code number for the fabric : LAWN
4-down – The position lies precariously to begin the fighting : OPENHOSTILITIES
5-down – Control applied by artist in copper : POLICECONSTABLE
6-down – Indicator of trouble to come before the fall : STORMCLOUD
7-down – Dope obtained as a symbol held by explorer : OPIATES
8-down – Shift altered to work by foot : TREADLE
13-down – I’m held up by overheads in the theatre : MARIONETTE
16-down – Calm letter from abroad about high rise turned up : PLACATE
17-down – Admit defeat against a good player, say : CONCEDE
19-down – Synthetic account worried Cyril : ACRYLIC
22-down – The whole taken together is repulsive : GROSS
23-down – Rich man to the fellows below? : TOFF

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23011 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 23011 clues and answers were published on Thu 11 Dec 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 23011 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – See 8 : THEBOGEYMAN
9-across – Follow the ‘ounds with compassion; is that wrong? : UNTRUTH
10-across – About time some Muslim backed American pressure on Japanese : SHIATSU
11-across – She hung, she swung, ‘e went to pieces on the floor : TESSELLAE
12-across – For a noted fair sight, they say, book that dame, Diana : BRIGG
13-across – No order for unordered currency : RAND
14-across – They measure the drops in, eg, a sugar solution : RAINGAUGES
16-across – Dearth of French leaves French opera externalised in Wales : CARMARTHEN
19-across – Lowers stock of the hoi polloi : HERD
21-across – Heroine of Berlin and Vienna not very bothered : ANNIE
22-across – Speed unheard of in such waters? : UNCHARTED
24-across – Sol Campbell on the bench? Get away with you! : BACKOFF
25-across – RIP, for example, bound to recall memory : TRIGRAM
26-across – So the Germans might curse two of their 17 7s : SCHWEINHUND

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Left first and third characters from Count Dracula’s Sin, failing as a play : TITUSANDRONICUS
2-down – Could be due from old sweat : EXUDE
3-down – She drowned up river; he raised flag : OPHELIA
4-down – But did he sculpt the Beatles? : EPSTEIN
5-down – Vessel taking lettuce, they say, to and from Kos? : MAILBOAT
6-down – Didn’t speculate? Evidently, no div! Then get run out : NOTHINGVENTURED
7-down – Watch maintained by the Countryside Alliance? : HUNTER
8-down – What gives me a funny turn outside Wolfson’s concern? The loo! : FUNGUS
15-down – Choose one or the other? No! Tho’ almost behave badly : HAVEBOTH
16-down – Growling growler driver? That’s about right! : CRABBY
17-down – 8’s collar could be let out : TRUFFLE
18-down – Electron bound to arouse notice in Times? Quite the reverse : EXCITON
20-down – Old bird of Mauritius with mother in Tanzania : DODOMA
23-down – Second farewell to the Spanish ladies : ADIEU

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

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