Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22990 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22990 clues and answers were published on Mon 17 Nov 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22990 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Vow made by page left on one side : PLEDGE
4-across – Article on foreign currency – about one no longer current : ANCIENT
9-across – Transient arrangement needed right now : INSTANTER
10-across – The subject of progeny : ISSUE
11-across – Part a lush grassy slope, part a scree : TALUS
12-across – Gentlemen of the press making cracks? : REPORTERS
13-across – Blame the salesman taking stroll : REPROVE
15-across – Flashback : SECOND
17-across – Daren’t, maybe, get fiery : ARDENT
19-across – A couple of beasts uniting could present a problem : ANAGRAM
22-across – Traveller vandalising train without point : ITINERANT
24-across – The Spanish swimmer is like a little fairy : ELFIN
26-across – Drink the health of a high-minded person? : TOAST
27-across – Cleaner hiding joint she’s stolen : PURLOINER
28-across – Book – something to fall back on : RESERVE
29-across – Recall a peer newly created by the sovereign : REPEAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A director’s tip : POINTER
2-down – Over 50, still making a stand : EASEL
3-down – Prime Minister lets go and goes to pieces : GLADSTONE
4-down – Stay on the large side after a fit : APROPOS
5-down – Announcer gets little credit and that is right : CRIER
6-down – Oriental feature about 8 : EASTERNER
7-down – He believes he is entered in certain races : THEIST
8-down – A writer who could be quite uncompromising, note : STERNE
14-down – Champions quiet workers : PARTISANS
16-down – Providing tea for single companion : CHAPERONE
18-down – Crush tribal leaders with large following : TRAMPLE
19-down – Get-up that makes a sober individual rage : ATTIRE
20-down – Mixed in among relevant matter : MONGREL
21-down – Have offspring and, inevitably, a mess! : LITTER
23-down – A consumer bearing with a change of rate : EATER
25-down – Guard for a malefactor : FENCE

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22988 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22988 clues and answers were published on Fri 14 Nov 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22988 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Welsh river name : CAMBRIAN
5-across – Effect of childish behaviour? : IMPACT
9-across – Good-looking worker getting part : HANDSOME
10-across – Main type of fastener : STAPLE
11-across – Coward going about in trance, perhaps : RECREANT
12-across – Dedicated skill, involving study, … : ARDENT
14-across – … to turn Paris into a dream, … : ASPIRATION
18-across – … skill and experience : COMPETENCE
22-across – Gun-toting general’s deputy : LEGATE
23-across – Audacious when ten lions assembled : INSOLENT
24-across – Italy endlessly leaning to the right : ITALIC
25-across – Gall in pear causes disease on the skin : PELLAGRA
26-across – Lower contents of one thermos flask : NETHER
27-across – Medical man takes time to fish : STURGEON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Firm at this point must be consistent : COHERE
2-down – People take one as a threat : MENACE
3-down – Is in a hurry to get results of the day’s shooting : RUSHES
4-down – Run as today’s politician? : ADMINISTER
6-down – Of importance, but not spiritual : MATERIAL
7-down – Order something to eat : APPLEPIE
8-down – Giving pleasure, while standing around : TREATING
13-down – Underworld entertainment that can be off-putting : DISCONCERT
15-down – Onion ring found in Jerusalem : SCALLION
16-down – One going abroad on allowance from music group : EMIGRANT
17-down – She may be a little time : BEATRICE
19-down – Ring everybody up about fabulous bird : COLLAR
20-down – Union measure : LEAGUE
21-down – Music suggesting bad weather’s on the way : STRAIN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22987 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22987 clues and answers were published on Thu 13 Nov 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22987 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Oil producer making composer take a test : BERGAMOT
9-across – Get out of bed for our pot shot? : UPROOT
10-across – Be very heartless in company : BEVY
11-across – Author having go as gender bender : GEORGESAND
12-across – Monster with no drink to knock back? : GORGON
14-across – In harmony with one in a new key : AGREEING
15-across – A painter is artificial, if not natural : FANTIN
17-across – See 15 : LATOUR
20-across – Burn more than a pirate : SEAROVER
22-across – Mock some travellers at Zeebrugge : ERSATZ
23-across – Wicked home in America without love : VILLAINOUS
24-across – Undemonstrative Conservative getting on with it : COLD
25-across – Artist holding recipe for soup : BORSCH
26-across – Bell sounds for fight : DINGDONG

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – We raised a bloom, a monster : WEREWOLF
2-down – Community centre, by golly, oddly unattractive : UGLY
3-down – Shakespearean king’s daughter depicted by Stubbs : IMOGEN
4-down – Womble country : BULGARIA
5-down – Successful prose pours out : PROSPEROUS
6-down – Intrude for an hour mid-morning : HORNIN
8-down – Old headmaster giving Orlando maths revision : THOMAS
13-down – An officer is beginning to train one without special skills : GENERALIST
16-down – Given a shiny loco without any rails : INVEIGHS
18-down – Making a noise? Jolly good! : RATTLING
19-down – See 8 : ARNOLD
21-down – Shakespearean king’s mother going up river or down under : ELINOR
22-down – Moving cautiously, say, to admit a transgression : EASING
24-down – Blighters start to court publicity : CADS

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22986 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22986 clues and answers were published on Wed 12 Nov 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22986 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – The breaking position? : HALFTIMESCORE
10-across – Amiable chap edited text about dog : EXTROVERT
11-across – Graduate’s sporting association in the island : MALTA
12-across – Drank a lot back at the store : DEPOT
13-across – Ease price put out to the listeners? : EARPIECES
14-across – The old line on fish making a noise : YELLING
16-across – A language, possibly vital one : LATVIAN
18-across – Fiery boss, an impetuous one : HOTHEAD
20-across – Prompt about the introduction of Edwardian past : ONETIME
21-across – Sort of carer? My charges could be small : NURSEMAID
23-across – Screen cook : GRILL
24-across – It leaves scope in South America for the dance : SAMBA
25-across – Thinks too highly of what concerns cricketers : OVERRATES
26-across – Condition of the : STATEOFTHEART

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – One enters car scheme for device to keep on course : AUTOPILOT
3-down – Bob put forward an idea : FLOAT
4-down – One to 3, mainly hidden from sight : ICEBERG
5-down – Absorb and learn about the short sort : ENTHRAL
6-down – Body meeting to pledge help to golfers? : COMMITTEE
7-down – Old memorial in state of dereliction : RELIC
8-down – Have control of metal by sheet on ground : LEADBYTHENOSE
9-down – All aboard! : PASSENGERLIST
15-down – End of rope in tangle could be this : INELEGANT
17-down – Ration one – it’s exceptional as a starter : INITIATOR
19-down – Pitch assistance turning up over ball game : DIABOLO
20-down – Peculiar people with time for a scrap : ODDMENT
22-down – Clock up and send money in payment : REMIT
23-down – Wolf in the valley? : GORGE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22985 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22985 clues and answers were published on Tue 11 Nov 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22985 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Wreck shoe, turn grey : SABOTAGE
9-across – Day nothing changed? : NIGHT
10-across – Slip without leader into recess : APSE
11-across – Fruit and bread wrapped in parcels, distributed : CRABAPPLES
12-across – Ally during controversial US conflict briefly seeing what was used in it : NAPALM
14-across – Bottom : BUTTOCKS
15-across – Piano with E# : PERHAPS
17-across – Embrace popular Swedish product curtailed, back to massage : INVOLVE
20-across – Instrument, one with register : RECORDER
22-across – Rock once found beside quite a few strata : LAYERS
23-across – Diversion to the left, I’m across, nearly up, then … : ANTICLIMAX
24-across – … blue sort of clue : DOWN
25-across – Dog killer captures Rex : CAIRN
26-across – Gas about, talk incoherently and make message unintelligible : SCRAMBLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Bend on road to Lancaster, for example : WARPLANE
2-down – See 18 : DONE
3-down – Bit of a gut for Goon : CAECUM
4-down – Balfour’s first novel abused by smears : BEDAUBS
5-down – Number after kinky fun, as free : UNFASTEN
6-down – Non-U commendation about pain given to study of antiquities : EGYPTOLOGY
7-down – Run to show all right when beset by cut : STREAK
13-down – Strong desire to make dark hairdo more light-headed, we hear : APHRODISIA
16-down – Wee weeing : PIDDLING
18-down – Alfred the Great’s exceptional home economics report? : VERYWELL
19-down – Order in force demonstrating commitment : PROMISE
21-down – Brussels fanatic almost given the chop: operation cancelled, though his wasn’t : EUNUCH
22-down – Change to be topless: twelve topless shows extravagance : LUXURY
24-down – Part of pound – I mean part of dollar : DIME

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

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