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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22902 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22902 clues and answers were published on Wed 06 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22902 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Associated with alderman concealing deception : ALLIED
5-across – Gives ground, with sponsor so very strong : BACKSOFF
9-across – Find out the CD’s finished… : DISCOVER
10-across – … reserved for Mussorgsky : MODEST
11-across – Swallow one’s pride – that is, after he put Mabel out : EATHUMBLEPIE
13-across – 9 put back the best : TOPS
14-across – Chief expected to protect king and nobleman : ARCHDUKE
17-across – Fellows curse what they have to put on : MENSWEAR
18-across – Being this tight is utterly wrong : TAUT
20-across – Teacher’s hot – cools off by moving stream : SCHOOLMASTER
23-across – Tattered coat hidden by the French 9 : LOCATE
24-across – Try catapults on young birds : GOSLINGS
25-across – When required, call to have base reassembled outside : ASNEEDBE
26-across – Lays out after leader of separatists hangs : SPENDS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Warren’s a flashy young Australian : LAIR
3-down – Home line service initially escalates : INCREASES
4-down – Bed coverings for five, getting in where only two should be performing : DUVETS
5-down – Shape of doom in the Atlantic for ships and aircraft? : BERMUDATRIANGLE
6-down – Officer wants me to support rally : COMEBACK
7-down – Move with stealth among feckless idlers : SIDLE
8-down – 9 scouts OK, if moved : FOSSICKOUT
12-down – 9 make an impression : COMEACROSS
15-down – Colliery at first put off 9 : DETERMINE
16-down – Literate and in good health, getting about these days : WELLREAD
19-down – One of the family sat up during the stoppage : STASIS
21-down – No fixed charge for spout? : ORATE
22-down – French painter rises shortly over the hill : AGED

This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22901 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22901 clues and answers were published on Tue 05 Aug 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22901 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Not 26’s normal rate : STANDARDFARE
8-across – African city, converting oxygen to energy, turned Portuguese, say : IBERIAN
9-across – Showing effects of a bumpy bus ride? : BRUISED
11-across – Garden implement takes type of beetle prisoner : HOSTAGE
12-across – 4 within hearing? It’s not important : TRIVIAL
13-across – Bottle opener very cunningly concealed : NERVE
14-across – Monica’s in trouble and she won’t get off lightly : INSOMNIAC
16-across – Paralysis when model replaces learner in 8 province : CATATONIA
19-across – Revolutionary holding up half a fish : TROUT
21-across – First pilgrims to Bethlehem included sort of poet : IMAGIST
23-across – Make use of the quality of diamonds – without diamonds : HARNESS
24-across – Bent PC helps to discover haul : SCHLEPP
25-across – People with something in common take notice of dyke : TRIBADE
26-across – Euch! Is Auntie cooking fancy food? : HAUTECUISINE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Poet and writer aboard the Queen Elizabeth : SPENSER
2-down – Bird 20 to cause a stir? : ANIMATE
3-down – Died unknown, having eaten 10’s weed : DANDELION
4-down – Sailor catches another up in the capital : RABAT
5-down – Artistic movement’s waveband receives gold 6s : FAUVISM
6-down – Composer-violinist’s treatment captivates southern Italy : ROSSINI
7-down – Worker in the Treasury, formerly, has joints of 1 across : FISHANDCHIPS
10-down – Not 1 across : DELICATESSEN
15-down – Atheist, given parental guidance, provided 1 across in Rome : SPAGHETTI
17-down – Yearning to penetrate paintings put up by the airway : TRACHEA
18-down – Weapon used to get free basic accommodation outside : TRIDENT
19-down – Line ends with note about lots of fur : TERMINI
20-down – Had more than enough of being forthright about a drug : OVERATE
22-down – Subject to snap? : TOPIC

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

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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.

Clues

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.

Clues

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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