Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22927 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22927 clues and answers were published on Thu 04 Sep 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22927 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Mangled corpse heartlessly put out of view : PROSPECT
5-across – Setter is getting transport on foot : IAMBUS
9-across – Ill-written communication : SICKNOTE
10-across – Uncle from the new world? : PAWNEE
12-across – What’s astir? Broken bones : TARSI
13-across – Team least trained gets no satisfactory result : STALEMATE
14-across – En voyage without information and refusing accommodation : INTRANSIGENT
18-across – Lawyer for privatised trains? : NOTARYPUBLIC
21-across – Officer gets a rough ride from Yankee jail : BRIGADIER
23-across – Maxim of old Russian writer : GORKI
24-across – Old city falling short of ideal : THEBES
25-across – Capital finds flower in embryo a nuisance : BUDAPEST
26-across – Dislike of French cricket? : DETEST
27-across – Painter takes game on plate to the queen : WHISTLER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Europe set against taking in former currency : PESETA
2-down – Big automobiles coveted by Hollywood types : OSCARS
3-down – Late worker? : PENSIONER
4-down – Socratic path could be disastrous : CATASTROPHIC
6-down – Saw, say, a girl upset : ADAGE
7-down – Bound like Buena Vista Social Club : BANDAGED
8-down – Radiation always sits around : SIEVERTS
11-down – Artist takes control of council : GAINSBOROUGH
15-down – Odd sailing ship clears the drink : ISINGLASS
16-down – Girl taking time out faced the bowling, no less : UNABATED
17-down – Muck raised and pushed across to grating : STRIDENT
19-down – Blair or spring flower : ORWELL
20-down – Old doctor curtailed food poisoning : LISTER
22-down – Plant used for arbours? : AVENS

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22926 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22926 clues and answers were published on Wed 03 Sep 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22926 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Closing time of special significance : THEENDOFANERA
10-across – Keeps to front of non-passenger car : GUARDSVAN
11-across – Divine food provided by hubby? No! : MANNA
12-across – Bend round to kiss missile launcher : OXBOW
13-across – Film hides truth about assassin : CUTTHROAT
14-across – Shops for pieces of veal with fresh topping : OUTLETS
16-across – Bed covers love to be replaced by one such as 1, 8, 9 and 26 : CLICHES
18-across – Not quite ticked off, but not left to chance : ENSURED
20-across – West’s reflective alternative time conductor : MAESTRO
21-across – Pays for utensil and plates supporter : FOOTSTOOL
23-across – Switching positions at prison officers’ centre : ONOFF
24-across – Group with common ancestry dressed alike finally : CLADE
25-across – Failing to tax office furniture : EASYCHAIR
26-across – Crestfallen? : SICKASAPARROT

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Principal, except with heartless tutors, acts the goat : HEADBUTTS
3-down – Present downfall that’s hurting : ENDOW
4-down – Gets rid of bad habits and schemes : DEVICES
5-down – Crank turning, in fact, engrosses one : FANATIC
6-down – As Daphne’s New York speed dig : NYMPHLIKE
7-down – Have sufficient money for fast approach : RUNTO
8-down – Condition of silly-looking root for a southern aspect : EGGONONESFACE
9-down – Bitmaps for IFE exposition’s rather hot introduction : BAPTISMOFFIRE
15-down – New money’s top in bureaucratic jargon : EUROSPEAK
17-down – Controversial issue of lustful King Edward? : HOTPOTATO
19-down – Last of beer in port’s for cattlemen : DROVERS
20-down – Wimp gets the most out of work : MILKSOP
22-down – Browser’s all right with one eye : OKAPI
23-down – He’s very up on basis for calculating interest : OSCAR

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22925 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22925 clues and answers were published on Tue 02 Sep 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22925 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – 5 across, or 24 : FASHION
5-across – Partner of vice, church designer : VERSACE
9-across – See 10 : WELLS
10-across – Letters of worst ugliness, befuddled git their creator? : DISGUSTED
11-across – Chicken appeared tender stuffed into tree, needing no more temperature : SCAREDYCAT
12-across – The Guardian and the Queen are sort of friendly? : USER
14-across – Deception of Raj, or honest deception? : TROJANHORSE
18-across – See 10 : OFTUNBRIDGE
21-across – Recent killer of old emperors reported : SARS
22-across – Barrier providing cutting message? : BARBEDWIRE
25-across – Criticises bishops with one in tears : RUBBISHES
26-across – Gaul, having lost 9, makes bloomer : ASTER
27-across – One moving stealthily on foot in America : SNEAKER
28-across – Time for Mahler composition, one currently uplifting? : THERMAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Partners to ram into newspaper at least : FEWEST
2-down – Israeli king loses a brown sovereign : SULTAN
3-down – Examiner’s job is to replace sign around what helps to create jam : INSPECTING
4-down – Children’s favourite teacher turns up with empty diary : NODDY
5-down – Pass round university and face up to what’s seen to be helpful : VISUALAID
6-down – Scrummy game involving love and kiss a basis for sauce : ROUX
7-down – Brilliance of wandering star, one held to move heaven and earth : ARTISTRY
8-down – Backs back with those eating ‘ay? : ENDORSES
13-down – Interpret stake pocketed by the poor : THREADBARE
15-down – Devious fraud virtually concealed by extra supplication : OURFATHER
16-down – Those associating with criminal types : CONSORTS
17-down – Gold in firm can be banked : STORABLE
19-down – See 1 across : VICTIM
20-down – Noncombatant, though heartless and impulsive? : NEURAL
23-down – Troubled head of school gripped by alternative to cane : BESET
24-down – Useful for keeping some warm in Knightsbridge? : MINK

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22924 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22924 clues and answers were published on Mon 01 Sep 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22924 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – A run to clinch the match? : ELOPEMENT
10-across – Colonel’s aircraft : BLIMP
11-across – Salerno a French city? Could be! : ORLEANS
12-across – Writer’s block? : NOTEPAD
13-across – One to do it wrongly : IDIOT
14-across – Job wasn’t made any easier by advice from this dummy : COMFORTER
16-across – Propellers for jumbo jets? : ELEPHANTSTRUNKS
19-across – Rejection? Not as a rule : EXCEPTION
21-across – Instrument for one in the performing arts : SITAR
22-across – Firm purpose to settle : RESOLVE
23-across – The jam-making trade? : TRAFFIC
24-across – Book a strong man : ATLAS
25-across – Dog gets bit – final news item : TAILPIECE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – This old boneshaker is a strangely loved piece : VELOCIPEDE
2-down – House-warming arranged for Alice : COALFIRE
3-down – The others pop in for a meal : REPAST
4-down – Canteen stew? : MESS
5-down – One responsible for statue of mother and child? : STONEMASON
6-down – Place equipped for stock dispatch : ABATTOIR
7-down – Inferior saucepan : TINPOT
8-down – One’s pedometer will show how fast one went : SPED
14-down – One form of insurance covers home and vast lands : CONTINENTS
15-down – Bound to give others credit for reform : RESTRICTED
17-down – Joint censure about southern vessel carrying spirit : HIPFLASK
18-down – If done, it might be reported : NOTIFIED
20-down – Move king to a stronghold : CASTLE
21-down – Is upset, internally affected by seafood : SCAMPI
22-down – Where ships anchor in island sound : ROAD
23-down – One among many getting up to work : TOIL

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22922 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22922 clues and answers were published on Fri 29 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22922 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Price of 20 for itinerant healer, former pupil, going in from there and going on : THREEHALFPENCE
8-across – See 14 : TOWER
9-across – Number for a hospital on channel island saved us from 1 down, as it were : NOAHSARK
11-across – Abroad, the one expensive meal taker : LUNCHER
12-across – The schemer’s only part of the writer : EMERSON
13-across – Firm supporter of poisoner : COBRA
15-across – Hold forth on right being taken away from resident alien : EXPATIATE
17-across – What can’t be caught can be made bad in lieu : INAUDIBLE
20-across – Sam’s corner – he keeps little money – wanted for 9 : MAPLE
21-across – Tenant from Peter-borough makes no mistake : SOKEMAN
23-across – Country under Prohibition only on top of 14 8 in 9’s day : DRYLAND
25-across – My sword I wield to deal with noisy behaviour : ROWDYISM
26-across – Major mark of forty times 1 across : CROWN
27-across – Boiler for some famous people backing deceptive alien outlet : ELECTRICKETTLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Complete obliteration of story on pieces of film in digital envelope : TOTALECLIPSE
2-down – Producer of red berries from Lambeth? : ROWAN
3-down – Change of heart a drawback when descending? : EARTHWARD
4-down – One in 2 or 20, of course : AINTREE
5-down – Sudden outbreak causing about turn in panic : FLAREUP
6-down – Succeed in removing it from private bathroom : ENSUE
7-down – Cheat to go on and on after getting his notice? : CARDSHARP
10-down – Indecent books withdrawn : INDEPENDENCE
14-down – Whale keeps changing tack around the water, high spot of holiday? : BLACKPOOL
16-down – Childish complaint of boat in loch being both unfinished : TUMMYACHE
18-down – Better-looking and not so plump when disheartened : BONNIER
19-down – Conclusion: mice sadly may well be ineradicable : ENDEMIC
22-down – Wine is both your tormentor and therapist : MEDOC
24-down – See 1 across : AFOOT

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

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