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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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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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