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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22921 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22921 clues and answers were published on Thu 28 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22921 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Hide in the grass, having got stronger : RECOVERED
6-across – Graduate backstage gets bread roll : BAGEL
9-across – Sweet spice with perfect taste : PEPPERMINTCREAM
10-across – Children’s author had turned left : DAHL
11-across – Force hemp to be unravelled by a half-sister : EMPHASIS
14-across – When one appears in person, it’s slander : ASPERSION
15-across – Russian girl in North America at daybreak : NADYA
16-across – Sinatra label covered Expression of Joy : TRALA
18-across – At home, mater treated foot problem : HAMMERTOE
20-across – Bright foreign editor : POLISHED
21-across – Native South American partly incapacitated : INCA
25-across – Improperly ask Athens singer, one involved in deception : SNAKEINTHEGRASS
26-across – Insect caught short – it’s in the corner : INSET
27-across – Manager’s sharp, which is an initial advantage : HEADSTART

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Swift passer-by starting to interrupt robbery : RAPID
2-down – Catches party where there are police : COPSHOP
3-down – Judge’s attitude : VIEW
4-down – Womaniser loses love in Italy : ROME
5-down – Do as you please! I need no baby-sitter! : DONTMINDME
6-down – Bribe former worker with hesitation : BACKHANDER
7-down – Covered with fat when consumed by gluttony : GREASED
8-down – Had sample moulded for translucent cover : LAMPSHADE
12-down – Indecent film exposed in the Guardian, for example : BROADSHEET
13-down – Of course this is the last hole : EIGHTEENTH
14-down – Hors d’oeuvres make Anita spit : ANTIPASTI
17-down – A k-king’s attentive : ALLEARS
19-down – Blast makes insect hide in bracken : TANTARA
22-down – Help hound hiding its head : ASSET
23-down – Doctor, one that stops a horse : WHOA
24-down – Personalities, for example, getting very large : EGOS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22919 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22919 clues and answers were published on Tue 26 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22919 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Loud knocker cut short, appearing chilled : FRAPPE
4-across – Country where adolescent converted having dispensed with drugs : SCOTLAND
9-across – Where Ariel Sharon’s heading for reform, disorder or disaster : ISRAEL
10-across – Tea’s gathered and at end of season freshly made : BRANDNEW
11-across – Mother marrying men admits I’m such a nightmare, they’re picked to send me delirious : MAGICMUSHROOMS
13-across – Embellished, transparent feature of rude words one passed round the Caribbean? : ROSEWINDOW
14-across – Whiskey with it to create a monster : YETI
16-across – Victoria’s work about to be given to mum : POSH
18-across – In marriage to socialist she gave _____ to provide a diversion : REDHERRING
21-across – Gore more favoured to British Lord, ‘e cursed : BLOODTHIRSTIER
23-across – Clandestine affair for which pair of eyes sounded urgent, possibly : INTRIGUE
24-across – Married to eleven men, perhaps? : UNITED
25-across – Safeguarded money certain to go to family? : SURETIES
26-across – Black man all washed up? : JETSAM

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Elizabeth divorced from Nick about to go berserk : FLIP
2-down – Having endless cunning, brings up children in debt : ARREARS
3-down – Early showings of seats the right : PREVIEWS
5-down – Traveller inordinately rich – don’t let her get away! : CHRISTOPHER
6-down – Bleak prospect, one difficult to crack, heading off heavenwards : TUNDRA
7-down – Unreliable man I love, the heartless reptile, perhaps : AMNIOTE
8-down – Motion to strike in the southwest in street of government : DOWNSWING
12-down – Beastly accommodation for Spooner’s beast with squeaky voice on steroids? : MONKEYHOUSE
13-down – Codgers to maintain The Queen’s Head, maybe, in places where the Queen isn’t! : REPUBLICS
15-down – Island accommodating non-revolutionary material : CRETONNE
17-down – One could be obsessed with training, bearing Harry : SPOTTER
19-down – Imagines one goes out with potential partners, trapping a quarter : IDEATES
20-down – Might one smoke forty a day? Rebelliously, did indeed : ADDICT
22-down – One’s mildly tasteful and, though somewhat aged, amazing! : EDAM

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22918 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22918 clues and answers were published on Mon 25 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22918 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Unsuccessful student making fresh start at Rugby : DROPOUT
5-across – Doesn’t sound it, but it’s hot : CHILLI
9-across – Moved camp : AFFECTED
10-across – One who treats vile disorder and rot : DRIVEL
12-across – Chap splits drinks with us – bags of them : PORTMANTEAUS
15-across – Returns to digs for economy’s sake : RETRENCHES
17-across – Service return a good way out : FAR
19-across – It is charged for a portion without wine : ION
20-across – I’d return to break agreement in dispute : CONTRADICT
22-across – Dear Sir, These could be what you’ve always wanted : HEARTSDESIRE
26-across – Took sweetheart and ran : ELOPED
27-across – Feel a bit irritated by a trifling annoyance : FLEABITE
28-across – Bedclothes used as ropes : SHEETS
29-across – The charge incurred by you initially for treatment : THERAPY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – It’s not cheap, love! : DEAR
2-down – Id est : ORFE
3-down – Cursory examination not repeated : ONCEOVER
4-down – Taking offence : THEFT
6-down – The ore may be converted to this : HERETO
7-down – A pointless intrigue? : LOVEAFFAIR
8-down – Show it’s all true, strangely enough : ILLUSTRATE
11-down – Exceptional talent may be hidden : LATENT
13-down – Soldiers embark in aircraft and ships : FREIGHTERS
14-down – A way, and only one, to outclass all rivals : STANDALONE
16-down – Music provided by the strings for the audience : CHORDS
18-down – Sulky demeanour : CARRIAGE
21-down – Many dwell on this anagram made by setter : STREET
23-down – A sign of disunity in Croatia : SPLIT
24-down – A girl artist has it framed : RITA
25-down – Extremely light : VERY

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22916 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22916 clues and answers were published on Fri 22 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22916 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Clerical journalist – vicar going round in a skirt : KILVERT
8-across – It’s seen as great in a riot : TEARGAS
10-across – Order for fruit : ORANGE
11-across – Rugby back goes easily with expedition : URGENTLY
12-across – It involves columns about tailless predator : STOA
13-across – Puddings have to go over the chin : AFTERSHAVE
14-across – One who does works of supererogation in Derbyshire? : KINDERSCOUT
19-across – 1 in 4 perhaps : STEEPCLIMB
22-across – Old tribe in reflective manner : EDOM
23-across – Part of 13 to shove one into ill-fitting suit : TIRAMISU
24-across – Jam makers shuffling deck, which is very wrong : WICKED
25-across – Father loses name, but remains highly esteemed : REVERED
26-across – Frightened by hood with a gun : ALARMED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Free to reject the Euro, keeping balance : LIBRATE
2-down – Bizarre leavings of a hypnotist : SVENGALI
3-down – Revolutionary got ear trouble : ORTEGA
4-down – Composer with anxiety over French place : BERGERAC
5-down – Ring audibly at St Clement’s, say : WRENCH
6-down – Part of 13 for a dancer : PAVLOVA
9-down – End of the road falls short of Keaton : BUSTERMINUS
15-down – Refused 19, going the other way? : DECLINED
16-down – Bangers going off scared the Yanks first : USEDCARS
17-down – A batsman is out : STRIKER
18-down – Intellectually challenged class said to enjoy prior perception : FORESEE
20-down – Taking up drink gets a fellow high : ELATED
21-down – They initially evacuate into pots : BOWELS

This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22915 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22915 clues and answers were published on Thu 21 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22915 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Catamaran initially in the dock, one lost to noted female? : CONTRALTO
10-across – Lass, like this clue, n end f rpe? : NOOSE
11-across – Lodging in poor road, I will abandon rich pickings here? : ORCHARD
12-across – Careful procedure the last resort? : STEALTH
13-across – Suitable place in which to see Armani – Chelsea? : NICHE
14-across – Slow to find the garlic devilish? : LETHARGIC
16-across – Flower, one I’m preserving in a pickle : EVENINGPRIMROSE
19-across – Man with giant strawberry on his head eats fruit – well I never! : GORBLIMEY
21-across – Build a lead in tennis? : SETUP
22-across – Virgin man in a pickle, model having fled : BRANSON
23-across – African flower lasts without endless resin for one : ZAMBEZI
24-across – Instrument would sound high, if cold were hot : CELLO
25-across – From navel fluff bacilli, after little hesitation : UMBILICAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Composer’s chosen movement by composer : SCHOENBERG
2-down – Not good conditions for driving in relation to this from of transport? : UNICYCLE
3-down – Box contains English make : CREATE
4-down – Trotter for the most part raised showed signs of laceration : BLED
5-down – Edges of very rusty pot replaced upside down : TOPSYTURVY
6-down – Type of deodorant that’s scarce, making a comeback in nudism perhaps, is outlawed : UNDERARM
7-down – Diversion lifted for relief by the way? : DOGLEG
8-down – Feature of Orson Welles’s ethic, a substitute for The Third Man : SETH
14-down – Resembling a pulse, like a glow-worm, say, trapped : LEGUMINOUS
15-down – To make cheese, how do you milk a Welsh hedgehog? : CAERPHILLY
17-down – Sick crossword compilers charged something for the deception : ILLUSION
18-down – Travel farther than, where abroad, the car’s broken down : OUTREACH
20-down – How dare you deposit a pound in bank! : REALLY
21-down – Exemplification is small enough : SAMPLE
22-down – US car, one abandoned, ridiculously cheap for an American? : BUCK
23-down – Squeeze bullock to get bovine out of the middle : ZEBU

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

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