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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22900 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22900 clues and answers were published on Mon 04 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22900 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Coming first in a US election : PRIMARY
5-across – Vessel going round lake casts off : SLOUGHS
10-across – A word of approval for those in favour : AYES
11-across – Poorly valued live entertainment : VAUDEVILLE
12-across – Man on watch around Beach Head : ALBERT
13-across – When high water is low : NEAPTIDE
14-across – Fruit in tree can go off : NECTARINE
16-across – Docks associated with locks, we hear : QUAYS
17-across – A shade of caution : AMBER
19-across – Courts get rough with bad kidnappers : ABDUCTORS
23-across – Badly handle patients’ outing? : ILLTREAT
24-across – Climbs Everest and Ararat, say : MOUNTS
26-across – Joint accompaniment? : VEGETABLES
27-across – Means of transport, sometimes sprung : TRAP
28-across – Small dining chairs : SEATING
29-across – Cinders gets wicked dame feeling guilty : ASHAMED

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Uncommon pronoun : ROYALWE
3-down – It’s made with a billiard cue – straight up! : MASSE
4-down – A hot rod driver : RIVETER
6-down – General method that allows margin for error : LEEWAY
7-down – Such investment gives one confidence : UNITTRUST
8-down – It’s divine embracing girl in time off : HOLIDAY
9-down – The Marathon, perhaps? : RUNNINGBATTLE
15-down – Dealing with team capsized in river : TREATMENT
18-down – Doctor to tell stories about dramatist : MOLIERE
20-down – Reveals United Nations’ demand in writing : UNMASKS
21-down – Desert folk struggle to succeed : RATRACE
22-down – Keep your thanks in check : RETAIN
25-down – It’s very much used as a prefix : ULTRA

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22898 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22898 clues and answers were published on Fri 01 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22898 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Underwear seen in bed : BLOOMERS
9-across – Sailor to hunt bird : OSPREY
10-across – She followed Pip in the afternoon : EMMA
11-across – Foreign Office has money for charge : FOSTERLING
12-across – Guard the German after conflict : WARDER
14-across – Failing to find bone in tumulus : MORIBUND
15-across – No hope keeping student like Bunter : OWLISH
17-across – Order made only after promotion : ADJUST
20-across – Tea rose for composer : CHABRIER
22-across – Nit-picker gets ace fighter in a huff : PEDANT
23-across – Lester and Iris wrecked the autoclave : STERILISER
24-across – Carriage in ambush : TRAP
25-across – Cook vegetable in advance : BEETON
26-across – Miscreant makes proposition about outcome : OFFENDER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Penny is over illness got from graphite : PLUMBAGO
2-down – Gentile’s a painter : GOYA
3-down – Oriental wearing guide’s jacket : REEFER
4-down – Party clothes journalist creased : DOGEARED
5-down – Possessed time to be shown over vault : SPELLBOUND
6-down – Ensign and Quaker agreed : PENNON
8-down – Password for man entering bishopric : SESAME
13-down – Think of French rescue : DELIBERATE
16-down – Carol keeps stack of coin : SHILLING
18-down – Giant let free in Cornwall : TINTAGEL
19-down – Topers getting wrecked quickly : PRESTO
21-down – Dislike tangled thread : HATRED
22-down – I fry up messily and clean : PURIFY
24-down – Got over insect bite : TANG

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22897 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22897 clues and answers were published on Thu 31 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22897 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Don’t utter the golden number – add some butter : SHORTEN
5-across – Guides and indicts engineers : DIRECTS
9-across – Chief ways to be at home in Belgian city : MAINLINES
10-across – Trunk growing from roots : TORSO
11-across – Game of water polo? : POOL
12-across – Sailor accepting return of singular sort of word fed on 1 across : ABBREVIATE
14-across – 1 across topped otherwise by wasp : HORNET
15-across – Pip’s girl – is she from across the water? : ESTELLE
16-across – 8 : SLAVISH
18-across – 14’s other seat : THRONE
20-across – Footsore cattle? : CORNEDBEEF
21-across – In the course of finishing a wonderful building : AMID
24-across – Stay for a time in the bathroom : BIDET
25-across – A largely 1 across age – 24 hours, alas! : ALACKADAY
26-across – The Dormouse’s well content : TREACLE
27-across – Communist holds Fascist leader 1across-ed : REDUCED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A little music for 17? : SUMUP
2-down – Flower, gold one, at Number Two briefly : ORINOCO
3-down – Money for ring : TOLL
4-down – Note about a certain bum : NONEBUTTHEBRAVE
5-down – See 4 : DESERVESTHEFAIR
6-down – People who applaud nonsense can be useful in the garden : ROTOVATORS
7-down – 1 across, the wagger and the wagged : CURTAIL
8-down – Semi-slow cooker for East European : SLOVENE
13-down – Medicine for St Giles’s day – caper about : ANTISEPTIC
16-down – Get rid of qualification formerly in the wind : SACKBUT
17-down – A game 1 across : ABRIDGE
19-down – Not still angry? Toss coin about it : NOMADIC
22-down – Spirit publicising the danger of spirits? : DRYAD
23-down – Second child out of control? : SKID

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22896 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22896 clues and answers were published on Wed 30 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22896 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Examination about account and year’s enterprise : AUDACITY
5-across – Fool in gamble for one particular dog : BASSET
9-across – Rate Tony, perhaps, as a lawyer : ATTORNEY
10-across – It’s a mistake to work this piece : BISHOP
12-across – Rough river in a mess : HARSH
13-across – Concerning a technology that’s out of this world : AEROSPACE
14-across – Late rep posed naughtily as one of us? : TRADESPEOPLE
18-across – Body of assessors examine O grade : INSPECTORATE
21-across – Not recalling when ruffle got in a tangle : FORGETFUL
23-across – In particular, it’s a lorry : ARTIC
24-across – Make new arrangements for the holiday place : RESORT
25-across – Playful talk can become offensive in time : BADINAGE
26-across – Draw made randomly? : DOODLE
27-across – Man of the cloth always involved in split : REVEREND

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Lack of interest in route to cut a yard : APATHY
2-down – Weak-minded one’s expression of annoyance going up to work : DOTARD
3-down – Chose right works, including drawings I can draw : CARTHORSE
4-down – Spirit of rock? : THEHARDSTUFF
6-down – Friend abroad on ship that’s faulty : AMISS
7-down – School drops off, we hear, for a drink : SCHNAPPS
8-down – The spinner’s even of the greatest importance : TOPLEVEL
11-down – Urge free report to newspapermen : PRESSRELEASE
15-down – Cricket score to give out arising after normal play? : EXTRATIME
16-down – Firm’s idea incomplete unfortunately: it’s gone wrong : MISFIRED
17-down – English papers in, so coffee is called for : ESPRESSO
19-down – Set out taking in force to harass with gunfire : STRAFE
20-down – It’s mixed with cement for a long passage : SCREED
22-down – Join up with sort of loner : ENROL

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22895 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22895 clues and answers were published on Tue 29 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22895 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Reject and reject one rejected : REPEL
4-across – Dog food doubled : CHOWCHOW
8-across – One such advice-barker’s troublesome around rear of Fiat? : BACKSEATDRIVER
10-across – One building some impressive giant pyramids? : EGYPTIAN
11-across – Island sees revolutionary raid by one revolutionary : BORNEO
12-across – In which fantasy died, damn real fantasy : DREAMLAND
15-across – Possible description of one in Mali, Englishman? : ALIEN
17-across – One travelling long distances will be hardly hopping! : NOMAD
18-across – Nates wobbling in the grip of musical instrument : CASTANETS
19-across – Traditional dish where man’s to eat a horse : HAGGIS
21-across – Fast food doubled : CHOPCHOP
24-across – Suspect behaviour seen riding basic transport home surrounded by chaos : MONKEYBUSINESS
25-across – Elected to position, for example : INSTANCE
26-across – Obscure setter’s about to pen : MISTY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – One creating friction with shabby hospital investment, a result of inflation? : RUBBERDINGHY
2-down – Perhaps an elephant’s hairdo will involve painful head of dandruff? : PACHYDERM
3-down – Noted man, last in series : LISZT
4-down – Coach with luck almost containing horse : CHARABANC
5-down – Likelihood of getting in the red with dangerous limits : ODDS
6-down – Sausage sandwiches with it in drink? Thanks! : CHIPOLATA
7-down – Theatre – one’s dedicated to performing : ODEON
9-down – Touring South, poor not rich, pays fare from the Southwest : CORNISHPASTY
13-down – Sporting position : MIDWICKET
14-down – Tramps living here put out, so turning quiet inside : DOSSHOUSE
16-down – Frozen layers, which may be cheesiest : ICESHEETS
20-down – Good horse providing beef : GROAN
22-down – King of Troy, one conveyed like a baby? : PRIAM
23-down – Song of passion, my heart lifting up : HYMN

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

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