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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22925 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22925 clues and answers were published on Tue 02 Sep 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22925 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – 5 across, or 24 : FASHION
5-across – Partner of vice, church designer : VERSACE
9-across – See 10 : WELLS
10-across – Letters of worst ugliness, befuddled git their creator? : DISGUSTED
11-across – Chicken appeared tender stuffed into tree, needing no more temperature : SCAREDYCAT
12-across – The Guardian and the Queen are sort of friendly? : USER
14-across – Deception of Raj, or honest deception? : TROJANHORSE
18-across – See 10 : OFTUNBRIDGE
21-across – Recent killer of old emperors reported : SARS
22-across – Barrier providing cutting message? : BARBEDWIRE
25-across – Criticises bishops with one in tears : RUBBISHES
26-across – Gaul, having lost 9, makes bloomer : ASTER
27-across – One moving stealthily on foot in America : SNEAKER
28-across – Time for Mahler composition, one currently uplifting? : THERMAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Partners to ram into newspaper at least : FEWEST
2-down – Israeli king loses a brown sovereign : SULTAN
3-down – Examiner’s job is to replace sign around what helps to create jam : INSPECTING
4-down – Children’s favourite teacher turns up with empty diary : NODDY
5-down – Pass round university and face up to what’s seen to be helpful : VISUALAID
6-down – Scrummy game involving love and kiss a basis for sauce : ROUX
7-down – Brilliance of wandering star, one held to move heaven and earth : ARTISTRY
8-down – Backs back with those eating ‘ay? : ENDORSES
13-down – Interpret stake pocketed by the poor : THREADBARE
15-down – Devious fraud virtually concealed by extra supplication : OURFATHER
16-down – Those associating with criminal types : CONSORTS
17-down – Gold in firm can be banked : STORABLE
19-down – See 1 across : VICTIM
20-down – Noncombatant, though heartless and impulsive? : NEURAL
23-down – Troubled head of school gripped by alternative to cane : BESET
24-down – Useful for keeping some warm in Knightsbridge? : MINK

This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22924 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22924 clues and answers were published on Mon 01 Sep 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22924 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – A run to clinch the match? : ELOPEMENT
10-across – Colonel’s aircraft : BLIMP
11-across – Salerno a French city? Could be! : ORLEANS
12-across – Writer’s block? : NOTEPAD
13-across – One to do it wrongly : IDIOT
14-across – Job wasn’t made any easier by advice from this dummy : COMFORTER
16-across – Propellers for jumbo jets? : ELEPHANTSTRUNKS
19-across – Rejection? Not as a rule : EXCEPTION
21-across – Instrument for one in the performing arts : SITAR
22-across – Firm purpose to settle : RESOLVE
23-across – The jam-making trade? : TRAFFIC
24-across – Book a strong man : ATLAS
25-across – Dog gets bit – final news item : TAILPIECE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – This old boneshaker is a strangely loved piece : VELOCIPEDE
2-down – House-warming arranged for Alice : COALFIRE
3-down – The others pop in for a meal : REPAST
4-down – Canteen stew? : MESS
5-down – One responsible for statue of mother and child? : STONEMASON
6-down – Place equipped for stock dispatch : ABATTOIR
7-down – Inferior saucepan : TINPOT
8-down – One’s pedometer will show how fast one went : SPED
14-down – One form of insurance covers home and vast lands : CONTINENTS
15-down – Bound to give others credit for reform : RESTRICTED
17-down – Joint censure about southern vessel carrying spirit : HIPFLASK
18-down – If done, it might be reported : NOTIFIED
20-down – Move king to a stronghold : CASTLE
21-down – Is upset, internally affected by seafood : SCAMPI
22-down – Where ships anchor in island sound : ROAD
23-down – One among many getting up to work : TOIL

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22922 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22922 clues and answers were published on Fri 29 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22922 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Price of 20 for itinerant healer, former pupil, going in from there and going on : THREEHALFPENCE
8-across – See 14 : TOWER
9-across – Number for a hospital on channel island saved us from 1 down, as it were : NOAHSARK
11-across – Abroad, the one expensive meal taker : LUNCHER
12-across – The schemer’s only part of the writer : EMERSON
13-across – Firm supporter of poisoner : COBRA
15-across – Hold forth on right being taken away from resident alien : EXPATIATE
17-across – What can’t be caught can be made bad in lieu : INAUDIBLE
20-across – Sam’s corner – he keeps little money – wanted for 9 : MAPLE
21-across – Tenant from Peter-borough makes no mistake : SOKEMAN
23-across – Country under Prohibition only on top of 14 8 in 9’s day : DRYLAND
25-across – My sword I wield to deal with noisy behaviour : ROWDYISM
26-across – Major mark of forty times 1 across : CROWN
27-across – Boiler for some famous people backing deceptive alien outlet : ELECTRICKETTLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Complete obliteration of story on pieces of film in digital envelope : TOTALECLIPSE
2-down – Producer of red berries from Lambeth? : ROWAN
3-down – Change of heart a drawback when descending? : EARTHWARD
4-down – One in 2 or 20, of course : AINTREE
5-down – Sudden outbreak causing about turn in panic : FLAREUP
6-down – Succeed in removing it from private bathroom : ENSUE
7-down – Cheat to go on and on after getting his notice? : CARDSHARP
10-down – Indecent books withdrawn : INDEPENDENCE
14-down – Whale keeps changing tack around the water, high spot of holiday? : BLACKPOOL
16-down – Childish complaint of boat in loch being both unfinished : TUMMYACHE
18-down – Better-looking and not so plump when disheartened : BONNIER
19-down – Conclusion: mice sadly may well be ineradicable : ENDEMIC
22-down – Wine is both your tormentor and therapist : MEDOC
24-down – See 1 across : AFOOT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22921 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22921 clues and answers were published on Thu 28 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22921 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Hide in the grass, having got stronger : RECOVERED
6-across – Graduate backstage gets bread roll : BAGEL
9-across – Sweet spice with perfect taste : PEPPERMINTCREAM
10-across – Children’s author had turned left : DAHL
11-across – Force hemp to be unravelled by a half-sister : EMPHASIS
14-across – When one appears in person, it’s slander : ASPERSION
15-across – Russian girl in North America at daybreak : NADYA
16-across – Sinatra label covered Expression of Joy : TRALA
18-across – At home, mater treated foot problem : HAMMERTOE
20-across – Bright foreign editor : POLISHED
21-across – Native South American partly incapacitated : INCA
25-across – Improperly ask Athens singer, one involved in deception : SNAKEINTHEGRASS
26-across – Insect caught short – it’s in the corner : INSET
27-across – Manager’s sharp, which is an initial advantage : HEADSTART

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Swift passer-by starting to interrupt robbery : RAPID
2-down – Catches party where there are police : COPSHOP
3-down – Judge’s attitude : VIEW
4-down – Womaniser loses love in Italy : ROME
5-down – Do as you please! I need no baby-sitter! : DONTMINDME
6-down – Bribe former worker with hesitation : BACKHANDER
7-down – Covered with fat when consumed by gluttony : GREASED
8-down – Had sample moulded for translucent cover : LAMPSHADE
12-down – Indecent film exposed in the Guardian, for example : BROADSHEET
13-down – Of course this is the last hole : EIGHTEENTH
14-down – Hors d’oeuvres make Anita spit : ANTIPASTI
17-down – A k-king’s attentive : ALLEARS
19-down – Blast makes insect hide in bracken : TANTARA
22-down – Help hound hiding its head : ASSET
23-down – Doctor, one that stops a horse : WHOA
24-down – Personalities, for example, getting very large : EGOS

This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22919 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22919 clues and answers were published on Tue 26 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22919 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Loud knocker cut short, appearing chilled : FRAPPE
4-across – Country where adolescent converted having dispensed with drugs : SCOTLAND
9-across – Where Ariel Sharon’s heading for reform, disorder or disaster : ISRAEL
10-across – Tea’s gathered and at end of season freshly made : BRANDNEW
11-across – Mother marrying men admits I’m such a nightmare, they’re picked to send me delirious : MAGICMUSHROOMS
13-across – Embellished, transparent feature of rude words one passed round the Caribbean? : ROSEWINDOW
14-across – Whiskey with it to create a monster : YETI
16-across – Victoria’s work about to be given to mum : POSH
18-across – In marriage to socialist she gave _____ to provide a diversion : REDHERRING
21-across – Gore more favoured to British Lord, ‘e cursed : BLOODTHIRSTIER
23-across – Clandestine affair for which pair of eyes sounded urgent, possibly : INTRIGUE
24-across – Married to eleven men, perhaps? : UNITED
25-across – Safeguarded money certain to go to family? : SURETIES
26-across – Black man all washed up? : JETSAM

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Elizabeth divorced from Nick about to go berserk : FLIP
2-down – Having endless cunning, brings up children in debt : ARREARS
3-down – Early showings of seats the right : PREVIEWS
5-down – Traveller inordinately rich – don’t let her get away! : CHRISTOPHER
6-down – Bleak prospect, one difficult to crack, heading off heavenwards : TUNDRA
7-down – Unreliable man I love, the heartless reptile, perhaps : AMNIOTE
8-down – Motion to strike in the southwest in street of government : DOWNSWING
12-down – Beastly accommodation for Spooner’s beast with squeaky voice on steroids? : MONKEYHOUSE
13-down – Codgers to maintain The Queen’s Head, maybe, in places where the Queen isn’t! : REPUBLICS
15-down – Island accommodating non-revolutionary material : CRETONNE
17-down – One could be obsessed with training, bearing Harry : SPOTTER
19-down – Imagines one goes out with potential partners, trapping a quarter : IDEATES
20-down – Might one smoke forty a day? Rebelliously, did indeed : ADDICT
22-down – One’s mildly tasteful and, though somewhat aged, amazing! : EDAM

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

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