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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.

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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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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22984 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22984 clues and answers were published on Mon 10 Nov 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22984 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Copper on trial is composed in dock : CURTAIL
5-across – Sphere of vision : EYEBALL
10-across – A small credit note on which little can be raised : ACRE
11-across – A stage partnership? : WELLSFARGO
12-across – Person who stoops to alcoholic excess? : BENDER
13-across – Abuse found in rapid dispensing of drugs : PHARMACY
14-across – Decoding any signal that’s broadcast : ANALYSING
16-across – Song initially sung in indication of victory : PSALM
17-across – Female behaviour – the lowdown : FACTS
19-across – Brick carrier : STRETCHER
23-across – Mentally ill – needs a change of routine before cure starts : NEUROTIC
24-across – Ask for money to clean up : SPONGE
26-across – Silly rhymes, whether one likes it or not : WILLYNILLY
27-across – Shadows on the log hearth : DOGS
28-across – Song that once charmed Ulysses : CALYPSO
29-across – Speech might indicate where one lives : ADDRESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Pawnbroker takes article that’s dirty : UNCLEAN
3-down – Mind about mid-afternoon drift : TREND
4-down – Where patients are treated internally : INWARDS
6-down – Perhaps men say he’s a sycophant : YESMAN
7-down – As played at the Policeman’s Ball? : BEATMUSIC
8-down – It follows US soldier into the pub : LOGICAL
9-down – Friends were uplifted with delight by this saucy play : SLAPANDTICKLE
15-down – Eleventh hour revival from the side : LATERALLY
18-down – A married woman in the country : AMERICA
20-down – Tried and tested : ESSAYED
21-down – Binds books : ENGAGES
22-down – Notes a mistake and makes amends : ATONES
25-down – The sequence of command : ORDER

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22982 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22982 clues and answers were published on Fri 07 Nov 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22982 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Mock Turtle’s contempt for mathematical process? : DERISION
9-across – City planners can be a letdown : BATHOS
10-across – About half a gallon – could be more : OMER
11-across – Numbers of little stones? : MOSAICWORK
12-across – An opera student is not unusual : NORMAL
14-across – Inflamed with hot rage brought about by reaction to heavy metal : LITHARGE
15-across – Composer gets court decision : VERDICT
17-across – Sportsman in London suburb deprived of space : BECKHAM
20-across – Musical tempo above ground? : AIRSPACE
22-across – Item: Three volunteers – you, you and you! : DETAIL
23-across – Impale – it could lead to an early demise : DEMONDRINK
24-across – Name spoken over the baby’s head : CAUL
25-across – Like Mosley – no saint, but a name above business : FASCIA
26-across – Working out time is not obligatory : OPTIONAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – She has her way with one : HERMIONE
2-down – It can hold one who’s dead drunk, they say : BIER
3-down – Girl’s illness is depressing : DISMAL
4-down – The ego feels no injury : ONESELF
5-down – Jack’s in the 23, say : ABSINTHE
6-down – Workmates take time out in East Anglia : STOWMARKET
7-down – Tramp got up! About time! : TOERAG
13-down – Do it as much as you like – but there’s more to it than making brass : MIDASTOUCH
16-down – You are on a mobile, giving his location : CHALDEAN
18-down – A mail shot has no right to be sharp : ACICULAR
19-down – One archbishop without a blessing : BENISON
21-down – In came tottering one who cometh : ICEMAN
22-down – State of antiquated airplane : DAKOTA
24-down – Idiot gets a hundred pounds in the red : CLOD

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22981 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22981 clues and answers were published on Thu 06 Nov 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22981 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Chance connection between wheels leads head of government to sign on – the like won’t be seen again! : HAPAXLEGOMENON
9-across – Drive mad queen into perilous situation, almost : DERANGE
10-across – Glorious August day, or January night? : TWELFTH
11-across – Fling with frequency : PITCH
12-across – A tiresome character consuming single drink at the first local : ABORIGINE
13-across – Addressee enlivened inert epic : RECIPIENT
14-across – Compiler conceals name of old scold : SHEND
15-across – Class’s subject for investigation takes time : CASTE
17-across – When to take in conviction for artwork : BASRELIEF
20-across – City, seized by strange inclination, goes belly up : RECUMBENT
22-across – Antiquated trust is to run hospital : TROTH
23-across – Lingy little Spaniard interrupting religious festival : ERICOID
24-across – Kentish town is, like, in favour of obstructing Lawrence’s return : ASHFORD
25-across – Point to mushroom ring for saint on the way into state of brain damage : ENCEPHALOPATHY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – London location supplying English pork and cherry pie : HYDEPARKCORNER
2-down – Feverish City rep gets treatment : PYRETIC
3-down – Drunken expat in public house has a nagging wife : XANTHIPPE
4-down – Girl stuffing sow with energy rays, by the sound of it : ELEVATE
5-down – Correspondence published in the Gay Times? It’s the end of civilisation! : OUTPOST
6-down – I brawl endlessly over plant extract : ELEMI
7-down – Not connected with unsavoury part of speech : OFFLINE
8-down – Nightfall, at which is a cliche : THEENDOFTHEDAY
14-down – Unethical business exchange, involving hot food previously : SWEATSHOP
16-down – Require commitment from the strings, perhaps : SECTION
17-down – Scope for life to absorb origin of death : BREADTH
18-down – Leave shore when the scenery’s looking the worse for wear? : SETSAIL
19-down – In modern parlance, I emphatically eschew having regular teeth : ISODONT
21-down – Animal’s low points : MOOSE

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

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