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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22912 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22912 clues and answers were published on Mon 18 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22912 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – PC Skinner : PEELER
4-across – Something said about Antony? : REMARK
9-across – Show fond regard for the opposite sex : OGLE
10-across – Straightforward reason why fountain pen needs a refill? : POINTBLANK
11-across – Non-bowler put in to bowl : BATTER
12-across – Global degree of freedom : LATITUDE
13-across – Those chosen travelled with the conductor : ELECTRODE
15-across – Heavy piece of wood, though it could be light : BEAM
16-across – Fight a spell of illness : BOUT
17-across – Taking away Sherlock Holmes’s secret of success : DEDUCTION
21-across – Insisted order is order : TIDINESS
22-across – Neutral gear : UNISEX
24-across – Help one man in trouble? That’s fantastic! : PHENOMENAL
25-across – Money taken at gunpoint? : GATE
26-across – Possibly seated and quite composed : SEDATE
27-across – Recollect nasty times in grammatical structure : SYNTAX

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Ill-mannered person with dog in queue : PIGTAIL
2-down – Construct perpendicular : ERECT
3-down – Ruler and a sheet of paper required : EMPEROR
5-down – Housing development willingly left : ESTATE
6-down – Share in a growing concern : ALLOTMENT
7-down – State engineer’s middle name : KINGDOM
8-down – Muckspreading may be a remedial application : FIELDDRESSING
14-down – Given a warning about education : CAUTIONED
16-down – Spoils the opening of Blackpool Illuminations : BLIGHTS
18-down – American friend takes a turn more often than not : USUALLY
19-down – Fleece to wear out : OVERTAX
20-down – Let pass : PERMIT
23-down – Mint bar? : INGOT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22910 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22910 clues and answers were published on Fri 15 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22910 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Rush to see the rain : PRECIPITATION
10-across – Plays around in company dance : CALYPSO
11-across – Complaint that chimney’s black from that time : LUMBAGO
12-across – Stars seen going round foreign capital : ORION
13-across – Direct the winning player : FIRSTHAND
14-across – Sounds like very small power : MIGHT
16-across – Against poetry talks : CONVERSES
18-across – Leave flower on going : DEPARTURE
19-across – Post of interest : STAKE
20-across – Meant, perhaps, to follow trial of will? : TESTAMENT
23-across – Managed with straight lines : RULED
24-across – Is incumbent on someone to have done with falsehood : OVERLIE
25-across – Girl eager to obtain material : NANKEEN
26-across – Makes up garlands with flower when convenient : ATONESLEISURE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Arriving by tube? : ROLLINGUP
3-down – Tin containing river fowl : CAPON
4-down – Demonstration of strength of spirit : PROOF
5-down – Putting up with permitted deviation : TOLERANCE
6-down – Siren may lure soldier on board ship : TEMPTRESS
7-down – A poor actor gets round about in America : OMAHA
8-down – Adaptation in living quarters : ACCOMMODATION
9-down – Patronising Tory on the way down : CONDESCENDING
15-down – Old sailor’s waterproof sheet : TARPAULIN
16-down – Chartered accountant no good without provocation : CAUSELESS
17-down – Dissipated bear smell is of no importance : SMALLBEER
21-down – Pamphlet man placed outside : SHEET
22-down – Rigid model seen off : TENSE
23-down – Old letters returned by Chinese nurse : RUNES

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22909 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22909 clues and answers were published on Thu 14 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22909 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Sick person takes a sort of medicine containing iodine : PATIENT
5-across – Headline by hack across top of page : SPLASH
9-across – Pat’s gob spouting rubbish : CLAPTRAP
10-across – One to inspire the flower of York? Right! : ROUSER
12-across – House that’s in a different location : ANOTHERPLACE
15-across – Piety embraces love to a great extent : GOODLINESS
17-across – Head teachers : NUT
19-across – Tip of tail, shall we say? : CUE
20-across – Where to see stars a short time before song on stage : PLANETARIA
22-across – Boasters such as Tony Benn? : NAMEDROPPERS
26-across – Drinks hard, being dissolute : RAKISH
27-across – A boy with a can starting to make short work of it : SONATINA
28-across – Many a love token to show affection : CARING
29-across – Had an irrepressible desire to drink for a number of years : LUSTRUM

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Treaty is in the bag, we’re told : PACT
2-down – Walk most of the way, then take public transport : TRAM
3-down – Catch fish with broken net first : ENTANGLE
4-down – Attribute loss of soldiers to fifth columnist : TRAIT
6-down – Immediate help for one who’s lost for words : PROMPT
7-down – They are unlikely to take over seats in bar : ABSTAINERS
8-down – Eight-footer came a cropper : HARVESTMAN
11-down – Boy child features in Bible reading : LESSON
13-down – Conceited like Gregory, literally : EGOCENTRIC
14-down – Bread producer has a profitable business : MONEYMAKER
16-down – Lose to Napoleon? Extremely odd for him! : NELSON
18-down – Leading hostilities is IDS? Quite the reverse! : STARWARS
21-down – Little boy with current issue of The Inventor : EDISON
23-down – Nose left to do a bit of snooping : PROWL
24-down – Criticise elevation of perjurer : LIAR
25-down – Girl grasping left hand : PALM

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22908 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22908 clues and answers were published on Wed 13 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22908 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – It can be hammered in the pit : XYLOPHONE
10-across – Small piece of self-indulgence : ELFIN
11-across – Step taken to account for the bends : ECHELON
12-across – They stop interim arrangement : TERMINI
13-across – Sheltered from west-facing artillery : SNUG
14-across – Spelling power : WITCHCRAFT
15-across – Carry on in the theatre : OPERATE
17-across – President producing cut diamonds : MADISON
19-across – Household product of sugar field? : LIFEGUARDS
22-across – Demon start to rage and horrify us : RAHU
23-across – Garment with blue dot design : DOUBLET
24-across – Knowledgeable drivers? : CABBIES
26-across – Changing the 99 rules of behaviour : ETHIC
27-across – Solo recital sounds like a non-stereo record : MONOLOGUE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Fault in hose under wing? It’s ready for longer flight : EXTENSIONLADDER
2-down – Ivy was a sign of this bitter place : ALEHOUSE
3-down – A car in hopeless condition : OPEL
4-down – Two instruments accompanying dance : HORNPIPE
5-down – Spirit-tapping : PEPTIC
6-down – Cratered ground made into ledges : TERRACED
7-down – A Gulf War ends with CIA in confusion here : AFRICA
8-down – Judge in nude cavorting! That’s not unusual : UNDISTINGUISHED
16-down – She’s a cake decorator : ANGELICA
17-down – Doctors’ dance held in the gym? : MEDICINE
18-down – They’re left when the planes’s taken off : SHAVINGS
20-down – What boxer did following tough preparation? : FOUGHT
21-down – A maths problem? Its victims think it’s a wheeze : ASTHMA
25-down – See 17 : BALL

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22907 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22907 clues and answers were published on Tue 12 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22907 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Exceptional hit to get pigeon with gun that’s no good : HOMERUN
5-across – Scrap involving American gunman creates scene of confusion : BEARPIT
9-across – Girl takes vehicle to US city : CARLA
10-across – Rebuke players getting one wicket? : CASTIGATE
11-across – Nasty smell with vessel in kitchen going over – little encouragement to enjoy food! : BONAPPETIT
12-across – Half the folk at university wanted virile young man : STUD
14-across – A girl, British one aflame with yen to show appeal to her man? : ADORABILITY
18-across – Yes, aprons go messy herein : GREASYSPOON
21-across – Our duty is to embrace a foreign language : URDU
22-across – Sham argument from one of the foreign secretary’s supporters? : MANOFSTRAW
25-across – Agitator expected to hold them enthralled : DEMAGOGUE
26-across – Man losing head on island is from Des Moines, perhaps : IOWAN
27-across – In international, Matthews could be twinkling : INSTANT
28-across – One of the porters’ conveyances they trundle for hospital : TROLLEY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – King’s wife in explosive country : HECUBA
2-down – Yarn from doctor about Ireland : MERINO
3-down – Judge again is to receive plaudits : REAPPRAISE
4-down – Hard substance containing nitrogen on part of the estate? : NACRE
5-down – Fuss after former Arsenal player’s given old-fashioned punishment : BASTINADO
6-down – Got down the catalogue of those coming first, not second : ALIT
7-down – Fruit that’s unattractive with insect in it : PLANTAIN
8-down – Pick times for listeners – slots near the middle of the week : TUESDAYS
13-down – Musical instruction briefly conveyed by Suppe : PIANISSIMO
15-down – Attack on street stifling roar maybe : ONSLAUGHT
16-down – Idea sung about in part of Mass : AGNUSDEI
17-down – Old women could provide bed and meals : BELDAMES
19-down – The alien plant must come up using this? : TROWEL
20-down – Bird starts to kiss you, showing off : SWANKY
23-down – Hidden? Not initially – anything but : OVERT
24-down – Modern drug knocking six out in Indian city : AGRA

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

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