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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22948 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22948 clues and answers were published on Mon 29 Sep 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22948 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Sort of picture that’s a topic for debate? : MOTION
4-across – Hope is dashed for her : SOPHIE
9-across – Courage needed by chickens? : GRIT
10-across – Personal subscriptions : SIGNATURES
11-across – Temporary work in the theatre : ACTING
12-across – Fighting and winning : ENGAGING
13-across – Top hat too fancy? It’s a controversial issue : HOTPOTATO
15-across – To expose a lie, it needs hammering home : NAIL
16-across – Cape being blown in the wind? : HORN
17-across – Entry to a profession : ADMISSION
21-across – Diverted assets from workers’ home and shed : HIVEDOFF
22-across – Don’t encourage delay : PUTOFF
24-across – Cross-examiner? : SCRUTINEER
25-across – Not true talent : BENT
26-across – This religious belief is held by our opponents : THEISM
27-across – Swindle and run, having taken in the City : FLEECE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Book covering part of North Africa : MOROCCO
2-down – Everybody’s playtime? : TUTTI
3-down – Love things to be settled right away : ONSIGHT
5-down – Tree house : ORANGE
6-down – Sort of figure that changes with time? : HOURGLASS
7-down – Constant distress alter one, nonetheless : ETERNAL
8-down – Dodgy gear forfeited in compromise : AGREETODIFFER
14-down – To harass thus is in itself clever : PERSECUTE
16-down – Reduction in capital growth : HAIRCUT
18-down – Put in danger in drive round Rhode Island : IMPERIL
19-down – Crime of a receiver of stolen goods : OFFENCE
20-down – Members sortie out : TORIES
23-down – Furniture catalogue : TABLE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22946 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22946 clues and answers were published on Fri 26 Sep 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22946 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Help this punter put in order for game : HUNTTHESLIPPER
9-across – Specify coat that’s to be put on the door : NAMEPLATE
10-across – Indication, they say, for American line : QUEUE
11-across – Partly erroneous copy : RONEO
12-across – Getting a place below is a humiliation : ABASEMENT
13-across – Music provider lured mice mostly abroad : DULCIMER
14-across – Playwright round the North in Lancashire : BOLTON
17-across – Keep in – or, alternatively, eg cane? : ENCAGE
19-across – Observe at length the reference below : FOOTNOTE
22-across – Without exception included in a class : CATEGORIC
24-across – River bend makes a neat arc : OXBOW
25-across – Not quite typical as a constellation : NORMA
26-across – There a lab prepared an aromatic drink : HERBALTEA
27-across – Not a very nice spirit : MEPHISTOPHELES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – All give it for maximum effort : HUNDREDPERCENT
2-down – Token in name only : NOMINAL
3-down – I get point playing, going carefully : TIPTOEING
4-down – Issued the final mandate, perhaps : EMANATED
5-down – General method to get elbowroom : LEEWAY
6-down – Edible item without question causes irritation : PIQUE
7-down – It’s always estimated as extremely high : EVEREST
8-down – Held down slates, we hear, being concealed : KEPTUNDERWRAPS
15-down – I’m certainly not bone idle : OSTEOPATH
16-down – Composition on sure thing in firm : CONCERTO
18-down – Circle round terrace in French company : COTERIE
20-down – Bristol centre overlooked taking a turn going round city : ORBITAL
21-down – Pollarded trees forming curved structures : ARCHES
23-down – Plot involving good man missing line? : GRAPH

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22945 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22945 clues and answers were published on Thu 25 Sep 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22945 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Bedroom capers resulting in tedium : BOREDOM
5-across – Too much : EXCISES
9-across – Keep working : ACTON
10-across – More or less impartial before a contest : JUSTABOUT
11-across – Say something tactless and let down a stout fellow : DROPABRICK
12-across – Check plug : STOP
14-across – Nimble pirate given the backing of The Mirror? : QUICKSILVER
18-across – Dumb Harpo is lone star : SOPHIALOREN
21-across – Company sounded cocky? : CREW
22-across – For example, Aesop’s dog-in-the-manger? : POSSESSIVE
25-across – Non-standard lime from a red standard : ORIFLAMME
26-across – Charlie’s predecessor hired killer : BRAVO
27-across – Can bird found abbey? : TINTERN
28-across – Sick and tired team held back? That can be arranged : FIXEDUP

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Stage directors have seats on them : BOARDS
2-down – Backward-looking duke walked on again : RETROD
3-down – European noblemen depicted by American author : DONMARQUIS
4-down – Special subject for American officer : MAJOR
5-down – Orchestrating score, take one of four quartets : EASTCOKER
6-down – Plastic material for Cassius : CLAY
7-down – It proves playing is playful : SPORTIVE
8-down – Heads turned by paintings etc devoted to a special purpose : SETAPART
13-down – See tree that’s seen in court : WITNESSBOX
15-down – Where is Douglas Donne denied? : ISLEOFMAN
16-down – Peggy Wood’s small-holding : ASHCROFT
17-down – Wild sheep – one taken by an old citizen : EPHESIAN
19-down – Spiffing Hogwarts alumnus? : WIZARD
20-down – Make good cop rue corruption : RECOUP
23-down – Who must be obeyed? One beginning to fire a lot of arrows : SHEAF
24-down – Joy on Grant’s first meeting with Confederate general : GLEE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22944 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22944 clues and answers were published on Wed 24 Sep 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22944 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Shallow versifying in Measure for Measure? : POETICJUSTICE
10-across – Phil, some say, a royal playing for Liverpool : ORCHESTRA
11-across – Rut cut in from left : LETCH
12-across – Broad, conclusively representative art retrospective : TRAMP
13-across – With no trace of Les Miserables, singularly leading in the British charts : ODOURLESS
14-across – Miserable Les; no German holds with backing this composer : NIELSEN
16-across – Last Stuart detailed first victim; Ms Lee? : ANNABEL
18-across – French horn’s theme in Berlioz’s overture : CORSAIR
20-across – Non-Reithian reference to his fiefdom? : THEBEEB
21-across – Authoritarian, dehumanising and oppressive: like Blair? : ORWELLIAN
23-across – Who’s the would-be geisha around here? All right! I am! : MAIKO
24-across – Holy Island welcoming one Greek outpost : IONIA
25-across – Love at first sight sought on this appointment? : BLINDDATE
26-across – Topping gag inducing low, glum, sour ‘Ha!’ : GALLOWSHUMOUR

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Eye on a car, perhaps? When do you get your Christmas bonus? : ONCEAYEAR
3-down – Time and money absorbed with Queen’s fool : TWERP
4-down – Picasso’s model? On the contrary, theirs … : CITROEN
5-down – Beautiful! An ovation surrounds the Bolshoi’s finest! : ULANOVA
6-down – Two articles from Anatole France: no French play here! : TOLERANCE
7-down – On which, quietly speak of pretty girl : CUTIE
8-down – Oo! One fruit cake cooked, not a biscuit! : FORTUNECOOKIE
9-down – Wow! The libel’s fabricated! Right, who blabbed? : WHISTLEBLOWER
15-down – Hill’s thorn-bound 7am delivery service? : SNAILMAIL
17-down – Without ceremony, brother, I’ve returned Old Trafford’s shorts! : BREVIMANU
19-down – Trout knocked off by Lawrence? : RAINBOW
20-down – Hot nudist refreshed with a funnel : TUNDISH
22-down – Fish so called with a new lawyer in New York : WANDA
23-down – Impulsive transmitter of verse between masses : MODEM

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22942 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22942 clues and answers were published on Mon 22 Sep 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22942 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – I’m in favour, yet show displeasure : GRIMACE
5-across – Plain girl goes to dance : PAMPAS
9-across – Mere existence? : PONDLIFE
10-across – Valiant choir somehow held a note : HEROIC
12-across – Butchery firm owned by a combine? : JOINTCONCERN
15-across – Chars at night to gain freedom from debt : CLEANSLATE
17-across – A warning to say nothing about evidence of arson : ASH
19-across – One Italian girl’s name : UNA
20-across – Principal finding company in one churchman or another : ARCHDEACON
22-across – Performed with a high degree of skill : ACCOMPLISHED
26-across – How to march on foot? : INSTEP
27-across – A champion paper : GUARDIAN
28-across – A tree’s transformed in springtime : EASTER
29-across – Ties the rest in knots : TETHERS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Effect of gravity on a monkey is to yawn : GAPE
2-down – Early centre of missionaries : IONA
3-down – No one is missing full board and lodging : ALLFOUND
4-down – Delicate and charming female trapped by rising river : ELFIN
6-down – An egg I scrambled, obviously not new-laid : AGEING
7-down – Derivation of article discovered in French region : PROVENANCE
8-down – It’s used on watch : SECONDHAND
11-down – Stop and have a drink : SCOTCH
13-down – A case for making a charge : ACCUSATIVE
14-down – Price of a suit? : LEGALCOSTS
16-down – Uncommonly haughty : LORDLY
18-down – In the main, it’s classed as vermin : SEWERRAT
21-down – Frenchman in our power : AMPERE
23-down – Become a sitting tenant : SQUAT
24-down – They are outnumbered in play : DICE
25-down – In extremities, they can be accommodating : INNS

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

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