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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22972 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22972 clues and answers were published on Mon 27 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22972 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Comfortable situation for a professor : EASYCHAIR
10-across – A gem looks right in the ring : PEARL
11-across – Denied a civil education : ILLBRED
12-across – Direction for making a machine part : BEARING
13-across – Work I mislaid : ILIAD
14-across – Stops or starts playing billiards : BREAKSOFF
16-across – Gamble on race – a chance to win lots of money : NATIONALLOTTERY
19-across – Cooked best o’ fare? : ROASTBEEF
21-across – Run a special edition : EXTRA
22-across – Agreed everything was bound to come out : TALLIED
23-across – Involving one’s stomach in following a strict diet : GASTRIC
24-across – Jar in which pound may be kept in ready money : CLASH
25-across – Treat wage adjustment as a political scandal : WATERGATE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – One with a suit may give tip to Ernie : PETITIONER
2-down – One sings his praises : PSALMIST
3-down – Kept a record that’s scratched : SCORED
4-down – Musicians forbidden to speak : BAND
5-down – Right-handed key : TREBLECLEF
6-down – Superior tram? : UPMARKET
7-down – A coin’s tossed in a gambling situation : CASINO
8-down – Beat in a round of golf : FLOG
14-down – Knocked flat by a hard bargainer? : BEATENDOWN
15-down – Shrewd fielder in sticky leg trap : FLYCATCHER
17-down – Completely wrong direction : OUTRIGHT
18-down – Always includes ten on the outside : EXTERNAL
20-down – Find love in a home on the water : AFLOAT
21-down – Follow Rex in to make certain : ENSURE
22-down – Moment that can worry sheep and cattle : TICK
23-down – Pluck the strings : GUTS

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22970 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22970 clues and answers were published on Fri 24 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22970 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Quality T-bone swallowed by a student, almost : ATTRIBUTE
10-across – Japanese product reversed into a Suzuki? A Honda! : HAIKU
11-across – Overthrow fat obstacle : BOLLARD
12-across – Foul web untangled by giant-killer : BEOWULF
13-across – Senior Church figure in a skirt : TUTU
14-across – Girl kept downstairs : CINDERELLA
16-across – Signal to approach amateur footballer : BECKHAM
17-across – Chain head-to-tail – they rise when aggravated : HACKLES
19-across – Springtime visitor from afar catching flower and fish : EASTERTIDE
22-across – Survey that’s less than barely adequate : SCAN
24-across – Monarch born to drink and revel : KNEESUP
25-across – Muscle of sorts for virtual church servant? : ERECTOR
26-across – Divine messenger taking human form : NAHUM
27-across – Old black god taking time to go back into the pantry : STOREROOM

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Sword protects leader of Boston Spa from a chessman’s breach of Rule 4 : SABBATHBREAKING
2-down – Olympian ambassador welcoming student in Greek dialect : ATHLETIC
3-down – Dead Russian on the couch : DIVAN
4-down – Lawrence enters Hell in tramp’s religion : BUDDHISM
5-down – Children taking mariner to a watery grave, perhaps : SEABED
6-down – The commander’s rather naughty religious ruling : THEOCRACY
7-down – Concerning sight of bottle holding American up : VISUAL
8-down – Side effect of conflict involving surly gnome and dwarf : GULFWARSYNDROME
15-down – Putting prophet up in model dwelling results in triangular relationship : THREESOME
17-down – How to secure gardening tool for pastoral feature : HEDGEROW
18-down – Expression for madman accepting commission on island : LOCUTION
20-down – Feel very cross with girl keeping support up : SEETHE
21-down – Office worker reported Siamese drunk : TYPIST
23-down – Cross and unsettled : VEXED

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22969 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22969 clues and answers were published on Thu 23 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22969 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Shirts lost here. Desire, after all, loses one in laundry : WALLSTREETCRASH
9-across – What, some Europeans say, old singer’s got in purse : EXCHEQUER
10-across – The Guardian’s about to make a stink : ODOUR
11-across – Top wine waiter’s pointless and muddled, showing sluggishness : INERTIA
12-across – One of the regulars is rather noticeable in appearance : HABITUE
13-across – What’s owed penniless victim of trickery : DUE
14-across – Plant polled fern included in enigmatic clue : LUCERNE
17-across – Jumpy over spread in back of tabloid : NERVOUS
19-across – Even Pequod’s missing circling whales with competence : EQUABLE
22-across – I long to leave capital before getting occupancy of new sculptor : BERNINI
24-across – This vehicle reverses into its club : CAR
25-across – To demonstrate hostility I shall repeatedly hug women : ILLWILL
26-across – Syrian city not prepared to support MacAllistair’s enlightenment? : ANTIOCH
28-across – In homage, went down pathetically like 10 that’s unnecessary : KNELT
29-across – A conventional US vessel for pulling back round a country : GUATEMALA
30-across – Understanding needed to encode a letter in translation? : ENTENTECORDIALE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The town crier is running late : WEEWILLIEWINKIE
2-down – Sinister cult has locked up its riches : LUCRE
3-down – Someone in a restaurant in Cornwall or Jersey : SWEATER
4-down – Outwardly profligate young man filling in with this? : ROULADE
5-down – Encourage head to drop towards feet of clay … : EARTHEN
6-down – … worker on coverings for feet left aiming for head dress : CLOBBER
7-down – In compiling, Afrit : AFORTIORI
8-down – Sporting myth – viewer has to be treated with a V : HARVEYSMITHWAVE
15-down – The fourth described thus by poet in case change to 2 takes precedence : CRUELLEST
16-down – Footballer’s reciprocal love for tennis player : NIL
18-down – One sees part of rare object in haystack : EYE
20-down – Two reports of money being integral to the deal : BUILTIN
21-down – Bucolics, say, turn up to feed drug to pointer : ECLOGUE
22-down – Well done, Bill! Cracking display! : BRAVADO
23-down – Take to be French and notice the patch-up job : RETREAD
27-down – Order – I’ve found it in Nebraska! : OMAHA

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22968 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22968 clues and answers were published on Wed 22 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22968 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Former English kingdom reduced, thanks to our neighbours : MERCI
10-across – 15 novel, Terrible Truth of Loco Thorpe : THEFOURTH
11-across – Beginning of novel: perhaps, Lord and Servant : TITLEPAGE
12-across – See 22 : OFWAR
13-across – … si tnemesrodne : BACKING
15-across – See 30 : FORSYTH
17-across – Crack a small number brought into Dover, perhaps : SOLVE
18-across – Undesirable movement practically contained : TIC
20-across – One Downing Street, no good man, a criminal : EATER
22-across – 15 novel where death row’s fog obscure : THEDOGS
25-across – Provides 13 across for guitar players, though no lead : ASSISTS
26-across – Tradesman’s admission is perfect : IDEAL
27-across – Book to convert into newspaper of lower status : SUBALTERN
30-across – Fetch frisky order : FREDERICK
31-across – Reportedly, boy now skinhead? : SHORN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Point to virtually dumb filth : SMUT
2-down – See 10 : PROTOCOL
3-down – Quote from 15 novel incestuous, yet I eye no cooee! : NICE
4-down – Frank, no mixer : STRAIGHT
5-down – Concerned with this woman adversary upset : HEREOF
6-down – Appearing anaemic, if left for dead, cures sought here within island : COLOURLESS
7-down – Tired of lifting weapon at end of day : DROWSY
8-down – Bearer of hammer and spike, but not pole : THOR
13-down – Plague of live television : BESET
14-down – Lie fabricated about principal in Casterbridge, Hardy’s answer to get licked : ICELOLLIES
16-down – Egyptian god beheading singers : HORUS
19-down – US picnic with meat found in Madeira, perhaps : CLAMBAKE
21-down – See 3 : TOSEEYOU
23-down – Old gnarled tree in city : EXETER
24-down – Finch with female relative and others : SISKIN
26-down – Suspicious bag unopened : IFFY
28-down – Record of Hungarian composer heard … : LIST
29-down – … by Italian one either way in London, on order : NONO

This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22967 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22967 clues and answers were published on Tue 21 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22967 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Pointless crazy smile at museum’s wanton destruction : VANDALISM
10-across – Dean loses head over another girl : ELLIE
11-across – League tables of art work in grammar school : RATINGS
12-across – Low road taken by body-liner : LARWOOD
13-across – Project of former politician : EDEN
14-across – Dutch Courage? : BEERBOTTLE
15-across – Start in edited passage : TRANSIT
17-across – Gettin’ a lift in Hertfordshire : HITCHIN
19-across – Manual delivery? : MAILEDFIST
22-across – Time taken by mountain to turn into level ground … : PLAT
23-across – … a large area and not with people : NORFOLK
24-across – Setter’s function, one given to deceive : IMPOSER
26-across – Maiden could be better without one : AMEND
27-across – Grade one hit could arise from it : RIGHTIDEA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Poem in neat Milton fashion, but cloying : OVERSENTIMENTAL
2-down – Curse articles leading to a degree : ANATHEMA
3-down – Curse with 8 : DARN
4-down – A girl to beat vigourously, perhaps : MISSPELT
5-down – Eric Walker? : AMBLER
6-down – Confirms findings of Goldilocks : BEARSOUT
7-down – Next to nothing in offertory tray to begin with : ALMOST
8-down – Could the ladder need an operation with these? : NEEDLEANDTHREAD
16-down – Their leader after Tories unfortunately lost one given to body building : STEROIDS
17-down – Hangs about – it’s unusual by the sea : HASTINGS
18-down – One’s inclined to conceal internal ailments : HILLSIDE
20-down – Land of serial disruption : ISRAEL
21-down – They pretend to be ascetics out East : FAKERS
25-down – Exercise with it in Chatham : PITT

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

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