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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22960 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22960 clues and answers were published on Mon 13 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22960 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Man of affairs : DONJUAN
5-across – Tried writing to the editor : ESSAYED
10-across – Chopped and changed when solving this clue : HEWN
11-across – Witchcraft : BROOMSTICK
12-across – Father’s bird is no longer in her prime! : PASTIT
13-across – Pig in fat calls for old port : LARBOARD
14-across – Recommended a course in physics : PRESCRIBE
16-across – General stall : BOOTH
17-across – It’s loud for a musical note : FORTE
19-across – Serious measure needed for those that are late : GRAVEYARD
23-across – Members of this society have a lot in common : AFFLUENT
24-across – Settles for cat food : LIGHTS
26-across – Magazine for women? : POWDERROOM
27-across – Lovely article in wood : FAIR
28-across – Eccentricity of uneven quality : ODDNESS
29-across – He enters the office uninvited : USURPER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Frank! Look out! : OPENAIR
3-down – Girl making article in stone : JANET
4-down – He will try to cook rarebit : ARBITER
6-down – Gloomy with ulcer: a case for the doctor : SOMBRE
7-down – A choice literary gathering : ANTHOLOGY
8-down – Right in, but it’s taken out : EXCERPT
9-down – Concert party in an arrangement of hues : COLLABORATION
15-down – Become comfortably established in seat on row : SETTLEDIN
18-down – Jettison a mouldy cargo : OFFLOAD
20-down – Masses of books : VOLUMES
21-down – Sailor comes up a rope – this one? : RATLINE
22-down – Stones left in fruit : PEARLS
25-down – Prefer to attack : GOFOR

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22958 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22958 clues and answers were published on Fri 10 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22958 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Dickensian, mad about food : PEGGOTTY
5-across – Flee city in the rain : DECAMP
9-across – Capital asset supports family : BEARSKIN
10-across – Copper has last word about judgement : ACUMEN
11-across – Swimmer put the Parisian through the window : LANCELET
12-across – Waif shows vital energy when boarding vessel : URCHIN
14-across – Vagrant’s old job being a bouncer : TRAMPOLINE
18-across – Waterway worker has food in cupboard : LOCKKEEPER
22-across – Fool makes a full stop approaching a road : DOTARD
23-across – Raise case being resolved tardily : ESCALATE
24-across – Obtain endless happiness : ELICIT
25-across – Put at risk the outcome with ill-temper : ENDANGER
26-across – Nobody keeps a German in a state of immaturity : NONAGE
27-across – Ringing factory without information : PLANGENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Footballer collects books of calculus : PEBBLE
2-down – Monitor shot girl : GOANNA
3-down – Some teddy boys terrorised native : OYSTER
4-down – Cloth samples found in bathroom : TOILETRIES
6-down – Is in Paris holding shipment of delicacy : ESCARGOT
7-down – Badly cram stuffing into furniture : ARMCHAIR
8-down – Swan formerly on sovereign’s banner : PENONCEL
13-down – Detached and processed iron sample : IMPERSONAL
15-down – Prepare glue, bond and stick : BLUDGEON
16-down – Cutter cut boy of an ancient region : SCYTHIAN
17-down – Drink absorbed in smart fabric : SKIRTING
19-down – An African leader in prison in the Promised Land : CANAAN
20-down – Hang many a crook : DANGLE
21-down – Feel sorry for river bird : REGRET

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22957 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22957 clues and answers were published on Thu 09 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22957 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Slimy, backward dregs of humanity embracing Open University : MUCOUS
6-across – Hard rain falling on the dragon : HARRIDAN
9-across – Substandard rum to toss around : SHODDY
10-across – Corral by which holy man keeps house in state : OKLAHOMA
11-across – Failure is about to enter partnership : MISCARRIAGE
15-across – The worst place one can be – in pocket of thin coat : SHELLAC
17-across – Inmate arranged early start for show : MATINEE
18-across – Protest, showing some degenerate tarts no mercy in return : REMONSTRATE
22-across – Medic has a try to catch little monster : DRAGONET
23-across – Races into trunk, displaying courage : BOTTLE
24-across – Shocked at Turin Shroud, initially – one revealing body : NATURIST
25-across – Woman in wild is wild woman : MAENAD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Barren setting for model and German artist : TUNDRA
2-down – Game finds defender loading empty gun with bullets : BACKGAMMON
3-down – Alternative title for books on decoration : ORNAMENT
4-down – Motorway pile-up with hospital involved: a confused mess : MISHMASH
5-down – Unknown hack to go to court over dish : CHOPSUEY
7-down – Rising temper is a foregone conclusion : DOOM
8-down – Ungenerous approach : NEAR
12-down – Reward fellow member in strangely serene surroundings : RECOMPENSE
13-down – Release catch and have wild fun with a gun : UNFASTEN
14-down – Father, perhaps, to tear about continually : REVEREND
16-down – Left fat pig inside : LARBOARD
19-down – Hammer-wielder taking short chopper to chest : THORAX
20-down – A place to hide the port : ADEN
21-down – Speaking philosopher’s jargon : CANT

This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22956 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22956 clues and answers were published on Wed 08 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22956 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – An integral part of the house : PLAYGOER
9-across – Older woman hanging over girl’s back : DUENNA
10-across – Old number Elvis called Old Sea Dog : VIKING
11-across – Brought together, indifferent about being delayed : COLLATED
12-across – Back at university someone’s emptied the kitty : PUSS
13-across – Deprive of three claws and despatch quickly without thanks : EXPEDITATE
15-across – Letter lost, allowed to fall on the ground : TERRAIN
16-across – Emphatically accepting choice when provided with a list of subjects : INDEXED
18-across – Settling down with advance team, getting directions to capture castle, initially : SUBSIDENCE
19-across – Swarm seen in retrospect as seemly : TEEM
20-across – Pear lies rotten by fruit tree : ESPALIER
22-across – Ignoring the alternatives, whirls Dolly with exuberance : WILDLY
23-across – Steer straight : DIRECT
24-across – First member of union forcing open rebellion : UPRISING

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A garland : ALEISUREPURSUIT
2-down – Smiley’s pleader a suspect? I’m not at liberty to say : MYLIPSARESEALED
3-down – Language bound to cause difficulty in speaking : TONGUETIED
4-down – A principle to be discerned in group receptions : PRECEPT
5-down – One will be good enough for Liberal’s image : IDOL
6-down – Go to dinner, say, clutching book – one’s first experience of split up : DEPARTMENTALISE
7-down – Little squirt preventing us getting a bite : INSECTREPELLANT
14-down – An asinine performance? : DONKEYWORK
17-down – Pouring out for us exclusively : INGROUP
21-down – Ten volunteers is not much : IOTA

This crossword has in total 24 where 14 are across and 10 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22955 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22955 clues and answers were published on Tue 07 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22955 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Succour can come from refined bishop : BEFRIEND
5-across – Put a stop to drink : SCOTCH
9-across – One of the witch’s early lessons? : SPELLING
10-across – It’s built on a northern river : ANNEXE
12-across – Tenor’s music transposed and misread : MISCONSTRUE
15-across – Punjabi has reversed part of his address : SAHIB
17-across – Eagles can initially excite her : ERNESTINE
18-across – The local biosphere? : ECOSYSTEM
19-across – A penguin, perhaps – one of several! : DIVER
20-across – They keep strangers at bay : COASTGUARDS
24-across – Infection spreading up a leg : PLAGUE
25-across – Countryman getting to his home via Norway : PERUVIAN
26-across – Summary process : DIGEST
27-across – After their flight they see space differently : ESCAPEES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The wild, original snake : BUSHMASTER
2-down – Where the charges are not charged? : FREESCHOOL
3-down – Accommodation built in a Circle : IGLOO
4-down – It’s not needed on a sentinel’s beat : NONESSENTIAL
6-down – Kind of milk made into 26 : CONDENSED
7-down – So the name … : THEN
8-down – … of the man in the ephod was Uriah : HEEP
11-down – Women like Moses : GRANDMOTHERS
13-down – Cut in the Second XI … : SILVERSIDE
14-down – … shows now in the first-half result : REPRESENTS
16-down – Youngsters required to be prepared to serve at Oxford? : BOYSCOUTS
21-down – Two universities in contention with the French mouthpiece : UVULA
22-down – Murphy was sick when ‘e left : SPUD
23-down – When it goes, it’s the end absolutely : BANG

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

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