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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22954 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22954 clues and answers were published on Mon 06 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22954 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – It’s safer not to stray by the shore : SEAFRONT
9-across – More work repairing high-class patio : UTOPIA
10-across – The highlight of the Nativity : STAR
11-across – Unfit, so ousted : OUTOFPLACE
12-across – Boatswain’s mate found at the end of the line : BUFFER
14-across – Former partner to create trouble, leading to censure : EXECRATE
15-across – The environment is declining : SETTING
17-across – Slowly executed movements get a soldier into difficulties : ADAGIOS
20-across – One who’s left without credit : DESERTER
22-across – Animal hunt : FERRET
23-across – Finance companies issuing notes, not silver : BRASSBANDS
24-across – Wine, or pop : HOCK
25-across – Roadworks in order : ORDAIN
26-across – Almost a hit with the girl next door? : NEARMISS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – One does nothing to make such treatment effective : RESTCURE
2-down – A long way off getting a rising service : AFAR
3-down – Slightly exaggerate an account and blush : COLOUR
4-down – Experience initial difficulty in speech-making : STUTTER
5-down – The deep – place for many catches : OUTFIELD
6-down – Jovial acknowledgement of a bad standard : JOLLYROGER
7-down – Game needing a light touch with the whip : TIPCAT
13-down – Annual pop festival : FATHERSDAY
16-down – Mark closely and upset the club three-quarters : NOTABENE
18-down – Public company that could be mine : OPENCAST
19-down – I call round on pressing business : IRONING
21-down – Fears losing head and making blunders : ERRORS
22-down – Calif’s worried about revenue : FISCAL
24-down – Depression characteristic of the camel : HUMP

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22952 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22952 clues and answers were published on Fri 03 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22952 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Hopin’ for relief when achin’ : ASPIRIN
5-across – Shield to absorb impact? : BUCKLER
9-across – Operation of falling in love? : HEARTTRANSPLANT
10-across – Gate for those facing the bowling : MENIN
11-across – Mend a torn dress with decoration : ADORNMENT
12-across – In Scotland they say ‘Thicko! Stupid!’ : DUNSINANE
14-across – Journalist, having gone to jail, is given corporal punishment : CANED
15-across – BT swapped wooden spoon for other prize : BOOTY
16-across – To Nelson it meant a load of balls : BROADSIDE
18-across – What nurses did after a shift, turning to port : LEFTWARDS
21-across – One with a concern in a holiday resort : IBIZA
22-across – Posh station with a junction wanting space down the line : VICTORIABECKHAM
23-across – Contract given to a composer : ABRIDGE
24-across – Lives with corrupt desires : RESIDES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Humiliated by a spurious education : ASHAMED
2-down – Patrol leader takes girl in with force – if force makes a controller of development : PLANNINGOFFICER
3-down – Rubbish and untidy mess – nature of an all-rounder? : ROTUNDITY
4-down – She’s not quite like other girls : NORMA
5-down – Senor of the road as well as in the dance : BANDOLERO
6-down – Bird with covered head : CAPON
7-down – What to do if the puzzle is too difficult : LEAVEUNFINISHED
8-down – Staff guarding art collection took turns : ROTATED
13-down – European Union bearing modified vegetable produce : AUBERGINE
14-down – Once worn, often battered : CODPIECES
15-down – Country girl from Birmingham, initially : BOLIVIA
17-down – Arithmetic is rejected by renaissance scholar : ERASMUS
19-down – Former SM first to wind round : WOOLD
20-down – Robes embroidered, but not gaudy : SOBER

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22951 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22951 clues and answers were published on Thu 02 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22951 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Capital Radio airwave to include capital, if 100 were 50 : MOSCOW
5-across – Office junior, having died, taken on by God, so in a tizzy : DOGSBODY
9-across – So not about to be given sequence of notes to follow? : TONEDEAF
10-across – Cash, about a grand and a half? : MONKEY
11-across – I inherit cash, moving to area of Tuscany with other expats : CHIANTISHIRE
13-across – At which point I don’t want any more drink : WHEN
14-across – Time bequeathal detailed, or… you won’t become one? : TESTATOR
17-across – No beef for kippers! : INSOMNIA
18-across – Top secret primate? : APEX
20-across – Red dish with yellow heart, they say : CHICKENTIKKA
23-across – Kofi’s people in lacklustre display : FLAUNT
24-across – Racy tome, novel about heavenly body : COMETARY
25-across – Celebration, seeing crowd wave to sweetheart : JAMBOREE
26-across – Plague returns to engulf a plant : YARROW

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – O, there’s only half an aeroplane, blow it! : OBOE
3-down – Belief about view endlessly increasing : CRESCENDO
4-down – The Queen declares herself nefarious and a crawler : WEEVIL
5-down – The bad life : DEFINITEARTICLE
6-down – Most tacky to get married twice, that is, in rush : GUMMIEST
7-down – Flowers, a selection of which with thanks insincerely appreciated? : BUNCH
8-down – Under river torpedo set off, but held firmly : DEEPROOTED
12-down – Feature cool on a rodent : CHINCHILLA
15-down – A red flower becomes white and smooth : ALABASTER
16-down – One creating opening in cast iron : INVENTOR
19-down – Inadequate to see Philby infiltrating himself? : SKIMPY
21-down – Cuba needs its dance not a bit : CRUMB
22-down – Vivacity of Brazilian capital and city : BRIO

This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22949 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22949 clues and answers were published on Tue 30 Sep 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22949 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Punitive action to restrict duke is what egalitarians want : REDISTRIBUTION
8-across – Alluring, full of Eastern sparkle : GLEAM
9-across – Salt mixed in a gelatin : ALGINATE
11-across – Doctor’s pronouncement – take time off for a bit : MODICUM
12-across – Gordon? Crooked, but keeping clear of all charges : BENNETT
13-across – Does prohibition-buster have the ability to provide a conduit for trade? : CANAL
15-across – Adherent’s mainstay – one set of holy books : PROPONENT
17-across – Old fossils, who caused trouble to the Israelites? : AMMONITES
20-across – America backing old tribe in Africa : SUDAN
21-across – Gross charlatan taking in Europe’s foremost financier : GRESHAM
23-across – Run away from salons seen to be terrible : PARLOUS
25-across – Looking like a star with stuff in show? The opposite : STELLATE
26-across – One desiring solitude – magnificent but ultimately twisted : GRETA
27-across – Undo the side nut somehow to get at the side : SOUTHENDUNITED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – National upheaval as a recipe for creating emigre? : REGIMECHANGE
2-down – Horror brought by low grade – extra study required : DREAD
3-down – Stop one half of an internal passage? : SEMICOLON
4-down – One may find a way through this book : ROADMAP
5-down – Harmful creature given a shout of disapproval – object of fear : BUGABOO
6-down – TV critic who shocked many – and not all fusty nannies : TYNAN
7-down – Getting better? No, the opposite, when it comes to those people facing death : ONTHEMEND
10-down – Instant deals negotiated somewhere in New York : STATENISLAND
14-down – Deputy union man faces endless distress : NUMBERTWO
16-down – Hormone can make one get so randy, initially : OESTROGEN
18-down – Dish bringing torment to little fellow : TIMBALE
19-down – Fool in part of trench nearest enemy : SAPHEAD
22-down – Most religious? Not one English composer : HOLST
24-down – Go, start off, with green clearly observable : OVERT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22948 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22948 clues and answers were published on Mon 29 Sep 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22948 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Sort of picture that’s a topic for debate? : MOTION
4-across – Hope is dashed for her : SOPHIE
9-across – Courage needed by chickens? : GRIT
10-across – Personal subscriptions : SIGNATURES
11-across – Temporary work in the theatre : ACTING
12-across – Fighting and winning : ENGAGING
13-across – Top hat too fancy? It’s a controversial issue : HOTPOTATO
15-across – To expose a lie, it needs hammering home : NAIL
16-across – Cape being blown in the wind? : HORN
17-across – Entry to a profession : ADMISSION
21-across – Diverted assets from workers’ home and shed : HIVEDOFF
22-across – Don’t encourage delay : PUTOFF
24-across – Cross-examiner? : SCRUTINEER
25-across – Not true talent : BENT
26-across – This religious belief is held by our opponents : THEISM
27-across – Swindle and run, having taken in the City : FLEECE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Book covering part of North Africa : MOROCCO
2-down – Everybody’s playtime? : TUTTI
3-down – Love things to be settled right away : ONSIGHT
5-down – Tree house : ORANGE
6-down – Sort of figure that changes with time? : HOURGLASS
7-down – Constant distress alter one, nonetheless : ETERNAL
8-down – Dodgy gear forfeited in compromise : AGREETODIFFER
14-down – To harass thus is in itself clever : PERSECUTE
16-down – Reduction in capital growth : HAIRCUT
18-down – Put in danger in drive round Rhode Island : IMPERIL
19-down – Crime of a receiver of stolen goods : OFFENCE
20-down – Members sortie out : TORIES
23-down – Furniture catalogue : TABLE

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

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