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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22894 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22894 clues and answers were published on Mon 28 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22894 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Duck or fish served in a vegetable container : POCHARD
5-across – See gunmen about in the distance and wonder : MIRACLE
9-across – Generous donations obtained by great craft : LARGESS
10-across – Leave to assimilate second course : DESSERT
11-across – Breaking dates hastily, being really single-minded : STEADFAST
12-across – A patient assistant : NURSE
13-across – Cooked food for a non-drinker in compensation : PATTY
15-across – Support control with vigour : REINFORCE
17-across – Orders put out for projects : PROTRUDES
19-across – Meadow Way would appear the shortest : LEAST
22-across – An emperor’s birds without superior : TITUS
23-across – Game, so came down river : SOLITAIRE
25-across – Initiating a breach : OPENING
26-across – Using a belt is quite inhuman : BESTIAL
27-across – He won’t do anything, but he’ll make a hit! : STRIKER
28-across – Pours out Oriental blends : EMERGES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Stops to stretch and have a little drink : PULLSUP
2-down – Up-to-date general : CURRENT
3-down – A number tip better : AMEND
4-down – Wanted to imbibe pop – lost all hope of it : DESPAIRED
5-down – In the middle of making a film about small daughter : MIDST
6-down – Left 12 across upset and indignant : RESENTFUL
7-down – Being in credit, the French are less encumbered : CLEARER
8-down – Out-and-out maximum : EXTREME
14-down – The standard certain policemen set : YARDSTICK
16-down – Can’t be taken in? There’s no answer to that! : INSOLUBLE
17-down – Professing to be religious, the heartless may go in. It’s deplorable : PITEOUS
18-down – Last longer in the main without wearying : OUTWEAR
20-down – Permanent dwelling : ABIDING
21-down – Where ramblers could well gain support : TRELLIS
23-down – A rug’s maybe offered – how sweet! : SUGAR
24-down – Sense discrimination : TASTE

This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22892 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22892 clues and answers were published on Fri 25 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22892 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Old French leader holds German leader to be a bandit : BRIGAND
5-across – Fictional inspector points out thieves : STEALS
9-across – London life crumbles before achieving happiness : FELICITY
10-across – Note compiler in a posh car – as one in a growth industry : FARMER
12-across – 29 after last nun leaves? : MARKETGARDEN
15-across – The bottom line – how to get a rejection slip : POSTSCRIPT
17-across – There’s nothing for which the Guardian can be liable : OWE
19-across – Touch with tact, or otherwise : CON
20-across – Eric proved to be very dear : OVERPRICED
22-across – Prince finally giving up time to body builder : CHARLESATLAS
26-across – Martin served in Ulster : ANTRIM
27-across – Sunbathe, maybe at a price : APRICATE
28-across – Hanger-on takes sovereign to heart : TICKER
29-across – Enclosed place from which prisoner finds an outlet : CONVENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Colour of old Third Foot? : BUFF
2-down – Object of worship said to be immobile : IDLE
3-down – Unfortunately, charm is a thing of the past : ARCHAISM
4-down – Member of Malaysian order for a short time comes to Britain : DATUK
6-down – Roman columnist : TRAJAN
7-down – Gunboat diplomacy could be a bad dream for the church : ARMEDFORCE
8-down – Hastening time makes train stop at nothing : STRINGENDO
11-down – Condition induced by Proust novel? : STUPOR
13-down – RAF accepts new flying machine : SPACECRAFT
14-down – After unusually nasty deed one gets caught – but it’s far from resulting in a proper sentence : ASYNTACTIC
16-down – To enrapture, a girl must be covered in spots : RAVISH
18-down – Production of play without leading characters : CREATION
21-down – Fish one is given instead : PLAICE
23-down – Theme of photo picture exhibition : TOPIC
24-down – Soldiers are by no means common : RARE
25-down – Dramatist expels revellers for being corrupt : BENT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22891 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22891 clues and answers were published on Thu 24 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22891 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Desire to tour country is feminine : WOMANISH
9-across – Animal finding snake in the grass : WEASEL
10-across – See 24 : LEAF
11-across – Compositor must be kind to get gelatine : TYPESETTER
12-across – Some Chinese subtract three from five to leave six, perhaps? : DIMSUM
14-across – Abroad she captures one mammoth, about to become fit : ELIGIBLE
15-across – Tenor’s heart evident in doleful lament : MONODY
17-across – Do house buyers find extremes in Tom Hanks’ character? : GAZUMP
20-across – For a carrier of disease, doctor’s capital! : MOSQUITO
22-across – Breathe with difficulty, that’s the trick : WHEEZE
23-across – Guttersnipe on an Indian scale messin’ up : RAGAMUFFIN
24-across – Delicate stuff needed when lead wasted in game : GOLD
25-across – Liquid spirits : HUMOUR
26-across – Wine from river, that is, to throw out : RIESLING

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Perfunctory compliance unfortunately isn’t OK with me : TOKENISM
2-down – Little lower, showing a bit of leg : CALF
3-down – Two little boys, one made to suffer : VICTIM
4-down – Ending in trousers, was Indian dish lacking heart a sign of appalling movement? : SWASTIKA
5-down – At which cobblers, like elves, rushed : LASTMINUTE
6-down – Breakfast TV continuing to report? : CEREAL
8-down – Farm machine which feeds rabbit? : HOPPER
13-down – Sequin for embroidery soon becoming a must : SINEQUANON
16-down – Cocktail made of milk, almost 75p collected for one : DAIQUIRI
18-down – Dog grabbing no sleep upset – description of a cryptic clue, perhaps? : PUZZLING
19-down – Chest, or one clearing it we hear : COFFER
21-down – 18 full stop a question mark’s carried : OPAQUE
22-down – Film director having received Oscar : WINNER
24-down – Bird’s fleece : GULL

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22890 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22890 clues and answers were published on Wed 23 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22890 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – 22 has to admit Newton fools around : HANSKREBS
6-across – Fur that’s not initially practical : SABLE
9-across – Fussy eater, say, among the leaders : VEGAN
10-across – Compiler catches old expostulation in Florida’s northern city : SHEFFIELD
11-across – Playing cards with a Celt is an idle pastime : CATSCRADLE
12-across – Prophet turned into a bit of a dipsomaniac : AMOS
14-across – Pagan god : SILENCE
15-across – Ludicrous encore put back in to annoy : RISIBLE
17-across – Going round part of the mouth externally : ORBITAL
19-across – Licence for waveband to cover grass circle : FREEDOM
20-across – Stand for no bull : BEAR
22-across – Scientist and actress Juliette, dropping point, acquires condensation : BIOCHEMIST
25-across – Prolonged note after 10 in mediocre surroundings : SOSTENUTO
26-across – Town putting name to voice : ALTON
27-across – Leading parts of Troilus and Cressida in drama at the nick : NOTCH
28-across – Oriental writer in the audience : EASTERNER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Upset eggs in church, making a terrible mess : HAVOC
2-down – Where to have a good time with nearly 0.352 fl oz in the bath? : NIGHTCLUB
3-down – Ancient ruler’s cattle stomaching bellyful of tin : KINGCANUTE
4-down – Nearness nearly results in tangle : ENSNARE
5-down – Measure taken by vermin raised to be popularly acclaimed : STELLAR
6-down – Hence paper’s not like Izal : SOFT
7-down – A fish : BREAM
8-down – Source of vegetable nutriment supplies finish to old style hair treatment : ENDOSPERM
13-down – Declare numbskull never stopped eating : ASSEVERATE
14-down – Cut back on degrees in immorality and put what’s left in here : SLOPBASIN
16-down – Clerical work covered by communications people on the game : BADMINTON
18-down – Incentive to admit drug is not working : LEISURE
19-down – Issues of relevance to female thespians : FACTORS
21-down – The way the compiler did it is capital : ASSET
23-down – Vocalist’s alternative number comes first : TENOR
24-down – Inverted layer containing sulphur, easily chilled : NESH

This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22889 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22889 clues and answers were published on Tue 22 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22889 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Something devised by many in the French camp : LEGACY
4-across – Champ on motorbike with gas in it. O, calamity! : AGOSTINI
9-across – Take over! Play the music! : RONDO
10-across – Spicated, you say, otherwise barbed : CUSPIDATE
11-across – Such a door on Dick Fosbury’s garage? : UPANDOVER
12-across – C-cast clod : CHURL
13-across – Redeeming feature of 22 3 : SILVERLINING
17-across – Town where Elgar meant very little, right? Wrong! : GREATMALVERN
20-across – Primate uniting church with devil : CHIMP
21-across – Cheese in France: what for? All round nonsense! : ROQUEFORT
23-across – Lay down rough pale stout : POSTULATE
24-across – Cheer up … with our English dead! : ELATE
25-across – It separates arches from cusp and relic : SPANDREL
26-across – More epigrammatical, say, than this oracular medium : PYTHIA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – So, qu’est a manger, Louis? or, perhaps, Is this le chef’s bible? : LAROUSSE
2-down – At day’s end could be all in, say, but rising with a will : GENIALLY
3-down – C-cacophonous cautionary condition : CLOUD
5-down – See 1 down : GASTRONOMIQUE
6-down – Cutter cut between Liverpool and Manchester? : SHIPCANAL
7-down – His ‘air, say, removed with hot wax treatment : ICARUS
8-down – King Mark’s bride upped and left in Day One : ISEULT
10-down – Never a cross word during this match? : CIVILMARRIAGE
14-down – Poet certified Prisoner of Zenda, up or out : EZRAPOUND
15-down – Hat once quietly tipped here? : CENOTAPH
16-down – A dreadful thane! : ANATHEMA
18-down – He sculpted The Speaking Compass. When? : SCOPAS
19-down – A Ford Granada blowout : FIESTA
22-down – One and all so English? On the contrary : EVERY

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

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