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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22837 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22837 clues and answers were published on Thu 22 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22837 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Doctors care? Lie put about in hypocritical show of concern : CROCODILETEARS
9-across – Parade on All Fools’ Day? : MARCHPAST
10-across – Adversary’s weekend article : SATAN
11-across – Clubman doesn’t begin to speak : UTTER
12-across – Junky flagship? : MAINLINER
13-across – Turn half left, then right in the gully – that’s weird : ELDRITCH
14-across – Things not wanted on voyage : JETSAM
17-across – Artist rejected payment : DRAWER
19-across – The old banger’s on the way from Norwich to Newmarket : THETFORD
22-across – He works hard to avert rail disaster : TRAVAILER
24-across – Fail to qualify and get the bird : PIPIT
25-across – Diana could be a nymph : NAIAD
26-across – Church leaders are broke without capital : BUCHAREST
27-across – Women used a tear causing a royal response : WEARENOTAMUSED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Catching someone in the net? : COMPUTERDATING
2-down – Danish scientist shows strength in the field : OERSTED
3-down – Alternatively, it could make one the worse … : OTHERWISE
4-down – … as it gets chums in a mess : INASMUCH
5-down – Necessitate volunteers being included in line-up : ENTAIL
6-down – Stand, as soldiers may do at Leatherhead : EASEL
7-down – Sailors sought by TV producer : RATINGS
8-down – Auden permitted to compose impromptu : UNPREMEDITATED
15-down – Place most able to produce psychic phenomenon : ECTOPLASM
16-down – Cu : SHORTCUT
18-down – Deadly sin of a soldier caught up in depravity : AVARICE
20-down – Overwhelm with paperwork : OPPRESS
21-down – Highball contributes to alcohol in the bloodstream : GLOBIN
23-down – Girl calling for someone to help : AIDER

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22836 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22836 clues and answers were published on Wed 21 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22836 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Pig entertains lieutenant on a ship : OILTANKER
10-across – Spare time right during cutback : EXTRA
11-across – See 23 : SHILTON
12-across – Fizzy drink with pork and apple, perhaps, as drug source : POPPIES
13-across – See 21 : NOSE
14-across – Cut centre page out : PERCENTAGE
16-across – As a substitute, one sent off before promotion : INSTEAD
17-across – Training brought back in call for sporting event : SHOTPUT
19-across – Nature’s big, bad engine : GASTURBINE
22-across – ‘en party’s pronounced language : URDU
24-across – Singer, one spotted holding note : DOMINGO
25-across – Menace should carry ecstasy then : THEREAT
26-across – School detention for cocaine abuse? : LINES
27-across – Criminal skirting round prayer, beheaded : DESPERADO

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – For whom indulgent acts no problem! : CONSENTINGADULT
2-down – I spell wrong is a grammatical omission : ELLIPSIS
3-down – Refuse the middle, say : WASTE
4-down – White boy finds nearest man in blue : SKINHEAD
5-down – Cancer, for instance, is right in issue : TROPIC
6-down – Missing excuse, hiding nothing, no fuss, so America to step down when dismantled? : WEAPONSOF
7-down – A ploughman sounded a menace once : ATTILA
8-down – See 6 : MASSDESTRUCTION
15-down – Once more fit out on vessel during search : REFURNISH
17-down – Some people sit in a sauna upside down to get clean : SANITISE
18-down – Pizza topping doubly average having eaten seconds : PARMESAN
20-down – Paul’s in the record business – It’s a Sin : SIMONY
21-down – Flower that’s been laid into red bouquet : BLOODY
23-down – Keeper of hotel safes, formerly : PETER

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22835 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22835 clues and answers were published on Tue 20 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22835 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Manic ITV production about cure for scurvy : VITAMINC
9-across – I, for one, may be heard making positive declaration : AVOWAL
10-across – Missile bowling over French aristocrats : SCUD
11-across – Significant base in Gulf disorder : MEANINGFUL
12-across – Gold : AUBURN
14-across – Brothers stuffing themselves with wine, nuts and chocolate cakes? : BROWNIES
15-across – Row about thief removing lining in hat : TITFER
17-across – A Caledonian’s neckties : ASCOTS
20-across – One who won’t accept goal starts to offend referee : OBJECTOR
22-across – Animal from bog taken to centre of staging area : QUAGGA
23-across – Work on medical solution after doctor writes : DROPSALINE
24-across – Setbacks, we hear, for reformer : KNOX
25-across – Fancy ignoring the odds to go free : ACQUIT
26-across – One can’t recollect me as I can recollect : AMNESIAC

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Ignore sales ploy? : DISCOUNT
2-down – King Henry gets involved in craze : FAHD
3-down – Collier’s shorthand : PITMAN
4-down – Caretakers join star cast : JANITORS
5-down – Italian town terrifying female novelist : GORGONZOLA
6-down – U-boat first sighted in Scandinavian river : DANUBE
8-down – Peevish driver getting right inside : CRABBY
13-down – Expecting to be like Incey Wincey Spider : UPTHESPOUT
16-down – Bent tree can’t break : ENTRACTE
18-down – Foreign garment is turned for foreign ladies : SIGNORAS
19-down – Work in the concert hall, having no time for mucky books : EROICA
21-down – Grail-seeker with companion in the soup : BORSCH
22-down – Royalty on Long Island : QUEENS
24-down – X in The Gentle Touch : KISS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22834 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22834 clues and answers were published on Mon 19 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22834 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Leaves a just reward : DESERTS
5-across – Figures indicate irregular phases : SHAPES
9-across – Warmed drink for a dog : AIREDALE
10-across – Profession has run rapidly out of control : CAREER
12-across – After a licking, one’s stuck in a corner : POSTAGESTAMP
15-across – A singular display of musical virtuosity : ONEMANBAND
17-across – Female sheep quarters : EWE
19-across – Piece of harness : BIT
20-across – Their failure to work leaves one speechless : VOCALCORDS
22-across – Report spouse in trouble? Ridiculous! : PREPOSTEROUS
26-across – Listen out for bays : INLETS
27-across – They make a bolt for it : CROSSBOW
28-across – Fears loss of opener to slips : ERRORS
29-across – See what someone has to say : LIPREAD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – How Beethoven finished a set of four notes : DEAF
2-down – One bound on a crest of a wave, we hear : SERF
3-down – Amateur bandsman? : RADIOHAM
4-down – Breakdown in disagreement : SPLIT
6-down – Cast ashore? That’s rough : HOARSE
7-down – About time Peter French found an occasional lodging : PIEDATERRE
8-down – Entertainment for band includes drinks : STRIPTEASE
11-down – Business fixed in minutes : AGENDA
13-down – Tropical bird to lift the ultimate trophy : BOOBYPRIZE
14-down – Success story? : BESTSELLER
16-down – Drunk takes bottle opener to bingo : BLOTTO
18-down – Drops out at university and prepares for the theatre : SCRUBSUP
21-down – Bill for publicity : POSTER
23-down – Two rivers characteristic of the country : RURAL
24-down – Instrument Martin’s left is a trombone : OBOE
25-down – Outstanding poem we hear recited : OWED

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22832 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22832 clues and answers were published on Fri 16 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22832 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Tew, perhaps, is an isolated spot : BACKWATER
6-across – The French pass back from this place : LOCAL
9-across – Implant again settles heart : INSET
10-across – One on after current string instrument : ACCORDION
11-across – Honour for gallant gangster? : KNIGHTHOOD
12-across – Deep sea fish : BASS
14-across – Initially, cupboard love affair causes uproar : CLAMOUR
15-across – Contented state leaders in rainstorm : NIRVANA
17-across – Stop publicity stunt : PREVENT
19-across – It’s pivotal to one in eight : ROWLOCK
20-across – Dress or be casual : ROBE
22-across – Agreement at home with a relative of 10 : CONCERTINA
25-across – Fish – ones swallowing plain biscuit : GARIBALDI
26-across – Condescend to plan lacking direction : DEIGN
27-across – Opinion held by Left and Right : TENET
28-across – Bit at a time for smorgasbord? : PIECEMEAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Edge of British ice field : BRINK
2-down – Severely criticise shed with one entrance : CASTIGATE
3-down – Appropriate place for clocking out? : WATCHTOWER
4-down – The care untidy children learn from : TEACHER
5-down – Driving club firm on animal : RACCOON
6-down – Sound of sinner’s instrument : LYRE
7-down – Teacups in this? : CHINA
8-down – Catch big fish – one that takes holding : LANDSHARK
13-down – Keep closer : DRAWBRIDGE
14-down – Protection symbolised by ringing 100? : COPYRIGHT
16-down – Native garb I found within a radius, for example : ABORIGINE
18-down – Turn in best strumpet : TROLLOP
19-down – Lay down rule anew involving clubs : RECLINE
21-down – With one exception, endlessly noble : BARON
23-down – Cancel yearbook with one deletion : ANNUL
24-down – Uplifting instrument to touch : ABUT

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

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