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.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22966 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22966 clues and answers were published on Mon 20 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22966 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Corrects the final part in a script : AMENDS
4-across – They may be called cliffs : BLUFFS
9-across – Big name appears nightly : STAR
10-across – You may have fun here for a pretty good cause : FAIRGROUND
11-across – Ernest broke records : ENTERS
12-across – Fairly good round the home : HONESTLY
13-across – Make a three-point landing : TOUCHDOWN
15-across – Vessel has got right inside the harbour : PORT
16-across – A Conservative leader about to give ground : ACRE
17-across – Hope yet for an art form : STILLLIFE
21-across – A short-lived engagement : SKIRMISH
22-across – A student with many grants : ALLOTS
24-across – Unlocked and shared out moonshine : BALDERDASH
25-across – Pet that’s all the fashion : RAGE
26-across – Is afraid of disturbing adders : DREADS
27-across – Nothing clear may come from this prophet : ORACLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Merchant who was in debt for a pound : ANTONIO
2-down – Macabre how corpse ends in the lake : EERIE
3-down – Fed up with being exploited and rendered ineffective : DEFUSED
5-down – Get the member to finish an old story : LEGEND
6-down – Pays bill, say, for furniture : FOOTSTOOL
7-down – Just one type of shirt or vest : SINGLET
8-down – Vigilant chap who never does a day’s work : NIGHTWATCHMAN
14-down – Sort of paper round? : CARTRIDGE
16-down – Difficult week in a hospital department : AWKWARD
18-down – Hide article in play : LEATHER
19-down – The weariness of military duty : FATIGUE
20-down – D minor composition by Elgar : NIMROD
23-down – Cyril’s odd ode : LYRIC

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22964 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22964 clues and answers were published on Fri 17 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22964 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – During send-off, show idle characters, such as women of leisure : LADIESWHO
10-across – Test we hear? A river : AURAL
11-across – I haven’t cut up on motorway in colourless environment? I probably have! : WHITE
12-across – Boy short of an idiotic case: on Pike’s head it’s marked Stupid Boy : DUNCESCAP
13-across – Town fast approaching North : PRESTON
14-across – 9’s 10? Almost, possibly violent : INTENSE
17-across – Italian composer to dump resident, no good : TOSTI
19-across – Common toilet – make for it! : BOG
20-across – Log on Kirk’s star-ship only half complete : ENTER
21-across – Desired for rejection of reject, noted discrimination admitted : YEARNED
22-across – A brief question about 4 leaves you trembling : AQUIVER
24-across – Alkaline compound of unstable character absorbing shortfall on the side : HYDROXIDE
26-across – See 9 : LUNCH
28-across – From 4 or Senegal? The former, perhaps? : NORSE
29-across – Make allowances for endless stretch at university at conclusion of course : EXTENUATE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Clown had to be funny during smack, though reaction suggesting otherwise? : SLOW
2-down – Hint of Saatchi and Saatchi product, depravity : ADVICE
3-down – Middle of city centre scrapped in redevelopment, possibly? : PEDESTRIAN
4-down – Country location of Biodome Project and its name : SWEDEN
5-down – Signalling direction in bricklayer’s work : POINTING
6-down – See 25 : RATE
7-down – See 3 : PRECINCT
8-down – See 1 : CLAP
13-down – On this train, loco : POTTY
15-down – Cringeworthy cryptic clue got in : TOECURLING
16-down – Three rights, one heartless, make a wrong : ERROR
18-down – See 19 across : STANDARD
19-down – Bend put straight inside which to rule sheets : BEDLINEN
22-down – A toilet for spies : AGENTS
23-down – See 11 : VANMAN
24-down – See 1 : HAND
25-down – Place too high a price on the speed of deliveries? : OVER
27-down – Lean part of the foot : HEEL

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22963 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22963 clues and answers were published on Thu 16 Oct 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22963 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Forbidding plump women chasing back speaker who crossed the Atlantic : PILGRIM
5-across – See 1 : FATHERS
9-across – Danger point for space traveller axing ecological endeavour : REENTRY
10-across – Noble that is royal before : EARLIER
11-across – Setter’s relative energy encompasses student on first row : IMBROGLIO
12-across – School report saying Rusty? : EATEN
13-across – Glory acquired by repelling vulgar derogation of the country : KUDOS
15-across – Boxer of Animal Farm, with a turn for the right where one went on the parish : WORKHORSE
17-across – Roget on the Lizard? : THESAURUS
19-across – Name for what : NABOB
22-across – Race in Kashmir is hard run : IRISH
23-across – Little Sir from Never on Sunday? : WEEKNIGHT
25-across – Opera lover lost in transit : TRISTAN
26-across – Time for a somewhat aged and 16 27 composer : TAVENER
27-across – His age combined with idleness caused under-production : ENGLISH
28-across – See 27 : DISEASE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Norm has his outlet, not quite what you need to get into non-27 football club : PARTICK
2-down – Idler composed German song about American president : LIEABED
3-down – 10 on beast can be expressed as a fraction : RATIO
4-down – 1 5’s craft is quite likely to prosper : MAYFLOWER
5-down – Somewhat fuddled, I reach South American territory : FUEGO
6-down – Arrogant female perhaps and crucial male in turn : TURKEYHEN
7-down – He turns out to be a winner under direction : EVICTOR
8-down – How far can the street go with its French counterpart a laughing stock? The answer is really unexpected : STRANGE
14-down – Intersection at Bologna, perhaps : SPAGHETTI
16-down – Put off coming up with a gamble as entry that’s well thought of : RESPECTED
17-down – See 1 : THISTLE
18-down – Job with paper, say, first in the row to go in : EDITING
20-down – This bloomer could be a big one : BEGONIA
21-down – See 8 : BUTTRUE
23-down – Acquire companion by helicopter? : WINCH
24-down – 1 – 0 66666, 1000m volcano : NEVIS

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

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