Clues

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.

Clues

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.

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22888 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22888 clues and answers were published on Mon 21 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22888 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Put in a drink, it knocked Argonauts out : ANGOSTURA
10-across – Winning article by school principal : AHEAD
11-across – Set off among supporters for ties : FASTENS
12-across – Picture held in fancy : IMAGINE
13-across – Exhaust advice about umbrellas in the rain : USEUP
14-across – The vulgar crowd we all have to suffer : COMMONLOT
16-across – Chatterboxes? : TELEPHONEKIOSKS
19-across – Time to check the lines after casting? : REHEARSAL
21-across – I had become attached to the Isle of Man in a manner of speaking : IDIOM
22-across – Power at mains switch : STAMINA
23-across – Salesman is untruthful in his answers : REPLIES
24-across – Elected to write article in French : CHOSE
25-across – Reprimand, showing players one way out : CASTIGATE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Watch for Hun! : HALFHUNTER
2-down – Type of porcelain food container : EGGSHELL
3-down – Prisoner catches general unaware : ASLEEP
4-down – Spends money on extras, we hear : BUYS
5-down – It will provide inside information, which needs digesting : BARIUMMEAL
6-down – Exquisite food : MACARONI
7-down – A broken romance? : SERIAL
8-down – Snick a boundary : EDGE
14-down – Go over to settle a quarrel with a grump : CROSSPATCH
15-down – Disciplinarian marks a test roughly : TASKMASTER
17-down – Quietly he accepts a pay increase, the hypocrite : PHARISEE
18-down – Weapon – injure about one thousand with it : SCIMITAR
20-down – In direct opposition, before the guillotine’s brought into action? : HEADON
21-down – I’m not one to weaken : IMPAIR
22-down – Rifle fire : SACK
23-down – Ill-considered break-out : RASH

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22886 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22886 clues and answers were published on Fri 18 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22886 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Fire routed and gale destroyed islands seen by Magellan : TIERRA
5-across – Brian came shortly before from Wales : CAMBRIAN
9-across – Long stretch for deserter caught in Minorcan capital : MARATHON
10-across – I want a change from Formosa : TAIWAN
11-across – Where there’s confusion about the French car : THREEWHEELER
13-across – See 8 : RULE
14-across – Annoying one who is about to die? : PERISHER
17-across – See 1 : DELFUEGO
18-across – Horseman? : ARAB
20-across – Religious instruction for lad told to go to place without borders : SUNDAYSCHOOL
23-across – French making new start to waterway : TRENCH
24-across – Wild the whole time : UNBROKEN
25-across – Supports offer, but does not move : STAYSPUT
26-across – Provides crops : YIELDS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Name one form of transport : IVAN
3-down – Cook’s complaint concerning food : ROASTBEEF
4-down – Stick the notice in : ADHERE
5-down – Scorn for amorous behaviour causing trouble with the judge : CONTEMPTOFCOURT
6-down – She spied Hiram at a dance : MATAHARI
7-down – Eau de Cologne : RHINE
8-down – Usually how dictatorships work : ASAGENERAL
12-down – Official agency cannot recruit any teachers to begin with : BUREAUCRAT
15-down – Dull person of no standing and little calibre : SMALLBORE
16-down – Half a vessel reportedly given to an Oxford scholar : DEMYSHIP
19-down – Reckless rider : COWBOY
21-down – Small old Penny Black : DINKY
22-down – Persuade bad starter to finish : BEND

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22885 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22885 clues and answers were published on Thu 17 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22885 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Art – no solution for someone who’s not beautiful : OILPAINTING
9-across – Head of staff tucked into stew in trendy nightclub : HOTSPOT
10-across – Wax almost inoperative, so prepare for paint perhaps : RUBDOWN
11-across – King in unfinished scrap is OK : CLEARANCE
12-across – Iron in the mouth turning muddy : BEFOG
13-across – Very enthusiastic, the opposite of a great female singer : AVID
14-across – Timber : MONTBRETIA
16-across – Answer to Peron, born in Chile, is within reach : ACHIEVABLE
19-across – How to address a princess? Any way you like! : MAAM
20-across – Slattern with no nurse around to get milky coffee : LATTE
21-across – Object after getting churned up dairy product : BUTTERFAT
23-across – Musical sensitivity in the group is most convenient : NEAREST
24-across – Demanding love binds Emperor to us : ONEROUS
25-across – Tynan describes strong desire to drown in such a drama : KITCHENSINK

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A Tory is following the correct line of enquiry : ONTHERIGHTTRACK
2-down – Simon, perhaps, laid into gentile persons : LEPER
3-down – Merchant of Venice affecting one at noon : ANTONIO
4-down – No rest when disturbed by wife, so what’s the point? : NORWEST
5-down – I’m taking corrupt bribes from boozers : IMBIBERS
6-down – Charlie, in need of big semi and mate, to start unprepared : GOOFFATHALFCOCK
7-down – Stupid but friendly, like a suggestion to a king : THICKASAPLANK
8-down – One who sorts the letters : ANAGRAMMATIST
15-down – Humble, being always in a hole : REVERENT
17-down – African tree, initially burgeoning in a competition : AMBATCH
18-down – Town led astray, which is a disappointment : LETDOWN
22-down – Sticky substance made from English lime : ELEMI

This crossword has in total 26 where 14 are across and 12 are down.

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