Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22906 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22906 clues and answers were published on Mon 11 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22906 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Swiftly booked traveller : GULLIVER
9-across – Usual pattern followed by an Anglo-Saxon conqueror : NORMAN
10-across – Shot for security reasons? : BOLT
11-across – Concerned, but not impartial : INTERESTED
12-across – Foremen’s outright blunders : GAFFES
14-across – Not playing – cancelled coach : OFFSTAGE
15-across – Pays out and relaxes : UNWINDS
17-across – New cadet or old soldier : REDCOAT
20-across – Could be another’s fishing ground : NORTHSEA
22-across – German sub : ERSATZ
23-across – Very different from East Poplar : POLESAPART
24-across – A touch of style : DASH
25-across – Make fast? : STARVE
26-across – Bottom gear : KNICKERS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The English way? Ah, no! But a foreign sort : AUTOBAHN
2-down – Uninteresting piece of scenery : FLAT
3-down – Profits from propagating salvia : AVAILS
4-down – Speech from Love on the Dole? : ORATION
5-down – An incoming charge : ENTRYFEE
6-down – Supporters with lots of hard facts : BRASSTACKS
7-down – Unsavoury scoundrel : BADEGG
13-down – Timorous person, eager to acquire the skill : FAINTHEART
16-down – In poor health, expired taking the waters : DISEASED
18-down – Flair shown when skill is added to effort : ARTISTRY
19-down – Frolic in springtime? Nonsense! : MALARKY
21-down – How a witness may appear to Noah in new guise : ONOATH
22-down – Involve in late changes : ENTAIL
24-down – Noble king in appropriate setting : DUKE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22904 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22904 clues and answers were published on Fri 08 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22904 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – H is for icing on the cake : FINISHINGTOUCH
9-across – It’s carried on a sleigh : LUGGAGE
10-across – One who might incur blame going round in a posh car ? : RAMBLER
11-across – Retreating soldiers cover leading Egyptian officer : EMEER
12-across – Girls’ neat figures? : TRIANGLES
13-across – Manipulator hates to trouble about work : OSTEOPATH
14-across – Add 1 across to a party of sailors… : ADORN
15-across – … sailor aboard takes a lead : STARS
17-across – Cunningly planned distribution of cigarettes : STRATEGIC
20-across – 18th century spin doctor? : ARKWRIGHT
22-across – Note a mere drop of medicine : MINIM
23-across – The sign of spun jute : HENGIST
24-across – She repels Nick with a triumphant laugh : NATASHA
25-across – Many set free by military leader : GENERALAMNESTY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Same touch in disguise? : FALSEMOUSTACHE
2-down – Many gentle types show lack of attention : NEGLECT
3-down – Fixers in flight for 15, Dior fashion : STAIRRODS
4-down – Reactionary tendency of a tier in administration : INERTIA
5-down – 1 across could be gaudy, if lacking heart : GARNISH
6-down – The sultan was a great guy : OSMAN
7-down – Taken short, state needs a toilet after West Indian greens : CALALOO
8-down – You are owners of a gift shop : PRESENTCOMPANY
14-down – Relative loses time gathering fruit – a mindless worker : AUTOMATON
16-down – Obliquely request an Anglican : ASKANCE
17-down – Pointed 15 : SAGITTA
18-down – Deterioration reported beneath a building : ROTUNDA
19-down – See sign giving origin : GENESIS
21-down – Demolish, they say, or the reverse : RAISE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22903 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22903 clues and answers were published on Thu 07 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22903 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Mount which has to gallop faster? : RUSHMORE
9-across – Macho man breaking into cold sweat : CLINT
10-across – Buzzer now loud? : WASP
11-across – Shield appearing cute on chest, almost battered : ESCUTCHEON
12-across – What’s left of delicate fabric, say, pocketed : LEGACY
14-across – More remote country shortly getting vital organ, but not heart : CHILLIER
15-across – Noted man being taken to court, this the result? : VERDICT
17-across – Doubly the 22 across and the 3 with 9 26 : THEGOOD
20-across – One Greek character in exam is most irritable : ITCHIEST
22-across – Came together to catch Satan headless, as Satan is : WICKED
23-across – Energy to express one’s disgust? : GETUPANDGO
24-across – Yanks cut short skirt : TUTU
25-across – Titan’s assault sounded in retreat? : ATLAS
26-across – See 9 : EASTWOOD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – African girl maintaining Europeans : SUDANESE
2-down – See 24 : SHIP
3-down – Plain would be otherwise, if hot were cold : HOMELY
4-down – Bird establishing a business in what hen does : PEACOCK
5-down – Royal meeting leaderless immigrant finally changed his nationality : SCOTTISH
6-down – Rocky, light and cool, I suspect : LITHOLOGIC
7-down – Flasher’s way to dress : STROBE
13-down – See 17 : ANDTHEUGLY
16-down – Rescuer returned in case adult disappeared into glacial fissure : CREVASSE
18-down – Passed open book, skipping introduction : OVERTOOK
19-down – Considers settling disputes when penniless : STUDIES
21-down – See 17 : THEBAD
22-down – Question put to topless Spice Girl sounds like it went straight over her head? : WHOOSH
24-down – Settlement to beat North/South divides : TOWN

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22902 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22902 clues and answers were published on Wed 06 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22902 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Associated with alderman concealing deception : ALLIED
5-across – Gives ground, with sponsor so very strong : BACKSOFF
9-across – Find out the CD’s finished… : DISCOVER
10-across – … reserved for Mussorgsky : MODEST
11-across – Swallow one’s pride – that is, after he put Mabel out : EATHUMBLEPIE
13-across – 9 put back the best : TOPS
14-across – Chief expected to protect king and nobleman : ARCHDUKE
17-across – Fellows curse what they have to put on : MENSWEAR
18-across – Being this tight is utterly wrong : TAUT
20-across – Teacher’s hot – cools off by moving stream : SCHOOLMASTER
23-across – Tattered coat hidden by the French 9 : LOCATE
24-across – Try catapults on young birds : GOSLINGS
25-across – When required, call to have base reassembled outside : ASNEEDBE
26-across – Lays out after leader of separatists hangs : SPENDS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Warren’s a flashy young Australian : LAIR
3-down – Home line service initially escalates : INCREASES
4-down – Bed coverings for five, getting in where only two should be performing : DUVETS
5-down – Shape of doom in the Atlantic for ships and aircraft? : BERMUDATRIANGLE
6-down – Officer wants me to support rally : COMEBACK
7-down – Move with stealth among feckless idlers : SIDLE
8-down – 9 scouts OK, if moved : FOSSICKOUT
12-down – 9 make an impression : COMEACROSS
15-down – Colliery at first put off 9 : DETERMINE
16-down – Literate and in good health, getting about these days : WELLREAD
19-down – One of the family sat up during the stoppage : STASIS
21-down – No fixed charge for spout? : ORATE
22-down – French painter rises shortly over the hill : AGED

This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22901 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22901 clues and answers were published on Tue 05 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22901 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Not 26’s normal rate : STANDARDFARE
8-across – African city, converting oxygen to energy, turned Portuguese, say : IBERIAN
9-across – Showing effects of a bumpy bus ride? : BRUISED
11-across – Garden implement takes type of beetle prisoner : HOSTAGE
12-across – 4 within hearing? It’s not important : TRIVIAL
13-across – Bottle opener very cunningly concealed : NERVE
14-across – Monica’s in trouble and she won’t get off lightly : INSOMNIAC
16-across – Paralysis when model replaces learner in 8 province : CATATONIA
19-across – Revolutionary holding up half a fish : TROUT
21-across – First pilgrims to Bethlehem included sort of poet : IMAGIST
23-across – Make use of the quality of diamonds – without diamonds : HARNESS
24-across – Bent PC helps to discover haul : SCHLEPP
25-across – People with something in common take notice of dyke : TRIBADE
26-across – Euch! Is Auntie cooking fancy food? : HAUTECUISINE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Poet and writer aboard the Queen Elizabeth : SPENSER
2-down – Bird 20 to cause a stir? : ANIMATE
3-down – Died unknown, having eaten 10’s weed : DANDELION
4-down – Sailor catches another up in the capital : RABAT
5-down – Artistic movement’s waveband receives gold 6s : FAUVISM
6-down – Composer-violinist’s treatment captivates southern Italy : ROSSINI
7-down – Worker in the Treasury, formerly, has joints of 1 across : FISHANDCHIPS
10-down – Not 1 across : DELICATESSEN
15-down – Atheist, given parental guidance, provided 1 across in Rome : SPAGHETTI
17-down – Yearning to penetrate paintings put up by the airway : TRACHEA
18-down – Weapon used to get free basic accommodation outside : TRIDENT
19-down – Line ends with note about lots of fur : TERMINI
20-down – Had more than enough of being forthright about a drug : OVERATE
22-down – Subject to snap? : TOPIC

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

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