Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22870 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22870 clues and answers were published on Mon 30 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22870 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Discomforting pain makes breath run raggedly : HEARTBURN
10-across – King Henry embraced composer : LEHAR
11-across – In a group coming from France : ENMASSE
12-across – One drunkard turns to espy another : TOSSPOT
13-across – Despatches terminate in a ship : SENDS
14-across – Follow appropriate sign of clerical occupation : DOGCOLLAR
16-across – How some people remain in business : YOURSFAITHFULLY
19-across – One has one of them, another three : SYLLABLES
21-across – A lot may go when it falls : GAVEL
22-across – Buoyant actress : MAEWEST
23-across – The tube for below-surface travel : SNORKEL
24-across – Material displayed by salesman in church : CREPE
25-across – Ballots to silence discord : ELECTIONS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – They may be eaten in Morocco, inviting glances : SHEEPSEYES
2-down – Shrew’s tail cut by chap from the French capital : KATMANDU
3-down – Possibly assist when blood circulation is arrested : STASIS
4-down – Stubborn worker apt to flap when steps are taken : MULE
5-down – Gets a sit-in arranged and uses provocation : INSTIGATES
6-down – Launching of report on cricket side : BLASTOFF
7-down – Union members’ oratory : CHAPEL
8-down – Sort of saw for pine : FRET
14-down – Uncalled for correspondence : DEADLETTER
15-down – Two lads start the game, getting a good hand : ROYALFLUSH
17-down – At this point, land appears : SEALEVEL
18-down – A sign of emotional entanglement : LOVEKNOT
20-down – Songs the first violinist heard? : LIEDER
21-down – Shades of Ibsen : GHOSTS
22-down – Staff employed in cooking : MACE
23-down – Staunch supporter : STEM

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22868 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22868 clues and answers were published on Fri 27 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22868 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Successor to Randall, almost courteous: an internationalist type : COSMOPOLITAN
8-across – Essential oil adding nothing to speed in vehicle : CAMPHOR
9-across – Officer of the crown, if seen in fresh rig : SHERIFF
11-across – Actress needing a friend to trust : PALTROW
12-across – A Bill Gates’ badly downloaded programme and they could get into hot water : TEABAGS
13-across – Contents of treasure-trove belonging to a bygone age : RETRO
14-across – Yard held individual with a drug : METHADONE
16-across – Spooner’s activity of many prior to marriage : DALLIANCE
19-across – Downbeat mood of Gateshead weaver? : GLOOM
21-across – Fight that’s feared by shepherds : SCRAPIE
23-across – Desperate character in Pentonville cut short by hanging : PENDANT
24-across – Heath’s relative sorted 21 : EPACRIS
25-across – Dutch given to drink – that’s fishy : ALEWIFE
26-across – Visual challenge of Spooner’s naval battle : FAILINGSIGHT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Beast of burden returning to a legendary settlement : CAMELOT
2-down – A little learning with zero activity or movement : SCHERZO
3-down – She needs no provocation to get involved in a row : OARSWOMAN
4-down – Where shooting is likely to start : ONSET
5-down – Former general taking heart from fruit and flower arrangement … : IKEBANA
6-down – … stirring a subordinate to get fruit order cancelled : AGITATO
7-down – Where we make a show of disrespect to the French? : SCEPTREDISLE
10-down – One with whom the social services take issue : FOSTERMOTHER
15-down – They work in Spanish and Latin production : THESPIANS
17-down – Household god can turn up at a Mediterranean resort : LARNACA
18-down – Like Caesar without a hazard : IMPERIL
19-down – Mother’s ruin’s part of 7, which is said to be curative : GINSENG
20-down – His son ain’t about to be conceived : ONANIST
22-down – All’s said to be wrong with the Spanish : ELSIN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22867 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22867 clues and answers were published on Thu 26 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22867 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Capuletti, Verona’s lost love, consigned to some risky stake : VENTURE
5-across – See 1 : CAPITAL
9-across – Playwright breathing flame : SYNGE
10-across – Live with past record? Fail, and You will ___! : BEHISTORY
11-across – Character discerned in one’s claret, some say : BLOODTYPE
12-across – From here, Henry’s first extracted a gas : ARGON
13-across – Principle of working Protestants: Call back in an hour? Quite the reverse! : ETHIC
15-across – Wild colobus’s hard conveyance for the little monkeys! : SCHOOLBUS
18-across – Both parts of Ireland study peace proposal : EIRENICON
19-across – Ugly Philistine bit of Doric decoration : GLYPH
21-across – Baroque bairns sculpted by plumber’s mate, say? : PUTTI
23-across – Head of East Anglian water plant? : BROADBEAN
25-across – Clay in suspension, I see, is down to earth : REALISTIC
26-across – A writer of asinine peregrinations, ‘e’s included French city : ARLES
27-across – Prime Minister tanned by Wallis, perhaps : STANLEY
28-across – See 27 : BALDWIN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Spites Blix over possible arms sales, say? : VISIBLE
2-down – Name one Old Testament woman: nobody else! : NONEOTHER
3-down – One blocking smells from Danube? Not a chance! : UBEND
4-down – Early stages of development bill for botanical protection : EMBRYOSAC
5-down – UNISON’s partner said to keep the teapot warm : COHSE
6-down – Go up, up with Henry, in song : PUSHALONG
7-down – A thtrain on beach bums? : THONG
8-down – Discover how to achieve immortality in wet cement? Bless me! : LAYONES
14-down – Putting the pole first, Fuchs? Pass out! Get festive! : CONVIVIAL
16-down – Hot, frenzied moans at back almost reversing taxi : HANSOMCAB
17-down – Gas pressure principle, by including oxygen as well, failing : BOYLESLAW
18-down – See 1 : EXPORTS
20-down – See 8 : HANDSON
22-down – Papal dignity could be studded with ice, if it is turned on a heathen god : TIARA
23-down – Crazy chiropteran Nora? : BATTY
24-down – Drag dr-drill : DRAWL

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22866 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22866 clues and answers were published on Wed 25 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22866 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Old eco-warrior gets politician into power : SWAMPY
4-across – Flair for 12 suffering : PANACHE
9-across – Mixed 4 milligrams of drink : CHAMPAGNE
10-across – Get over feeling irritated : CROSS
11-across – However, 20 went out for a snack : BUTTY
12-across – Picture makers getting valuers in : UNIVERSAL
13-across – Excursion to oil-producing city : TRIPOLI
15-across – Almost lose sight of mischief maker : GOBLIN
17-across – Satisfied about vessel’s sales potential : MARKET
19-across – Seek information on family of fruit : PUMPKIN
22-across – In Iran, bat supplies the national emblem : BRITANNIA
24-across – The lad in charge of the boom, perhaps : SONIC
26-across – Creeper effecting a clawback : LIANA
27-across – A weapon receiving humble consideration : ALLOWANCE
28-across – Shakespearean young lovers initially in trauma : SHYLOCK
29-across – Onyx set near every other jewel’s origin : OYSTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Wine barrel shortened by instrument : SACKBUT
2-down – Film awards back to front at the back : ABAFT
3-down – Bloom’s bird nonsense : POPPYCOCK
4-down – Looking around Oriental capital : PEEKING
5-down – Ideal position for local French hospital? : NICHE
6-down – Hacks take credit for dining utensil : CHOPSTICK
7-down – Ancient solvers holding girl up without much ado : EASILY
8-down – Rodent, one supporting a painful condition : AGOUTI
14-down – Single woman accepting a drink that’s fantastic : IMAGINARY
16-down – Let them have it! – local Indian proverb? : BOMBSAWAY
18-down – It’s for pinning colour on half of air gun : TINTACK
19-down – P-premature description of London’s king : PEARLY
20-down – Central rule can break down : NUCLEAR
21-down – Round lump sum of old money : OBOLUS
23-down – Military encounter in the fashion of the moment : ALAMO
25-down – Musicians without access to websites? : NONET

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22864 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22864 clues and answers were published on Mon 23 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22864 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Gunfire from ship-borne gunners : BARRAGE
5-across – Director of river boats to keep locks in order? That’s dandy! : COXCOMB
10-across – Earnings do not begin for a long time : AGES
11-across – Anger badly mishandled on the whole : BYANDLARGE
12-across – Rob irregular corporal of horse : BRONCO
13-across – Room at the top? : AIRSPACE
14-across – Players one team dropped : CASTASIDE
16-across – Work of monumental stupidity : FOLLY
17-across – Head stableboy drove off with a lively horse : STEED
19-across – Dive that lorry drivers try to avoid : JACKKNIFE
23-across – A vicious circle? : VICERING
24-across – Shut up! : IMMURE
26-across – Start of play : FIRSTNIGHT
27-across – Stuff to study for an exam : CRAM
28-across – They took over from the night shift : PYJAMAS
29-across – Vessel churning up water left and right : TRAWLER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Regalia thrown out by republic : ALGERIA
3-down – About to break the law, by gum : RESIN
4-down – Having the hump : GIBBOUS
6-down – Directions taken by clergymen : ORDERS
7-down – Stringent restrictions take vice to a low level : CLAMPDOWN
8-down – Supernatural calm created round a soldier : MAGICAL
9-down – Cases of eviction? : BAGANDBAGGAGE
15-down – Dates may be seen around this place : THEREDSEA
18-down – College group : TRINITY
20-down – One providing cast-off clothing? : KNITTER
21-down – Prohibited sort of beard : FORBADE
22-down – Girl is brought up in Italy : SIENNA
25-down – Tropical bird with head of myna and a cry of a rook : MACAW

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

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