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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22872 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22872 clues and answers were published on Wed 02 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22872 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – It’s unlawful to cancel, if one firm goes bust : CRIMINALOFFENCE
9-across – Insomniacs’ distraction? : NIGHTLIFE
10-across – Governor left with the Queen after the game : RULER
11-across – Peacemakers get Oliver to turn the other way : UNTWIST
12-across – Suffering caused by initial loss of flag : ANGUISH
13-across – A fool about money : TIN
14-across – Nourishment discovered in a leading establishment : INGESTA
17-across – GI’s hero makes like a man-eater : OGREISH
19-across – Sweet face’s back before the fall : GUMDROP
22-across – Aquatic animal has to trap sea monster: boy missing : MUSKRAT
24-across – The bird you heard follows me around : EMU
25-across – Who would find fault with a very hot day? : ROASTER
26-across – Take-off’ll be reported; one’s bowled over : SKITTLE
28-across – Murderer crossed river by heap of stones : CAIRN
29-across – Cat trails groggy composer : SCARLATTI
30-across – Seasonal electricity charges : SUMMERLIGHTNING

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Deceptions practised by the light-fingered? : CONJURINGTRICKS
2-down – Gold, perhaps, for leaders of industry not getting other treats : INGOT
3-down – Exercises sixth sense when homebirds embrace upstart : INTUITS
4-down – A change of attire for a little air : ARIETTA
5-down – Wild ass brought up to love herb : OREGANO
6-down – Fraud gets round a scavenger : FORAGER
7-down – Neutraliser is ineffective, providing that is right : NULLIFIER
8-down – Heartbroken squeal about milliner is momentous : EARTHSHATTERING
15-down – With a little music, I trilled about my being raised in a German school : GYMNASIUM
16-down – Intended for duck as well : TOO
18-down – Incoming nurse is a strange creature : GNU
20-down – English can be discovered in French street following … : RETINUE
21-down – … scrutiny of girl from South America : PERUSAL
22-down – Fly all over horse : MUSTANG
23-down – Pan winter sport Archer’s backing : SKILLET
27-down – Tuesday – dry one altogether : TUTTI

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22871 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22871 clues and answers were published on Tue 01 Jul 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22871 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Massive Asian points carried in anticipation of future sales? : WINDOW
6-across – See 4 : SHOPPING
9-across – Ravenous beast at sea swallows copper : LOCUST
10-across – Prepare for war with random timetable, one ignored : EMBATTLE
11-across – Birds do keep getting in a flap with crows : WOODPECKERS
15-across – Set for lovers’ quarrel during broadcast to be curtailed : STIFFEN
17-across – Framework, so in design inconclusive : PERGOLA
18-across – What could be subtler during search for weapon! : CLUSTERBOMB
22-across – Don’t sing a single song without heart – how much atmosphere’s soaked up? : HUMIDITY
23-across – Cite evidence to decapitate evil Mussolini : ADDUCE
24-across – Where time taken by cryptic crossword bum who’s not hard : WORMWOOD
25-across – See 24 : SCRUBS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Fair chance of drunkard turning to drink : TOSSUP
2-down – Around the early hours developed bother, PC needed something to go on : CHAMBERPOT
3-down – One offering lift from Rue Paris : UPRAISER
4-down – I’m stunned given less width wrongly installed – performance of cowboys : WILDWEST
5-down – Local death of Ericsson broadcast : NECROSIS
7-down – Fracas won’t start with a scrap : IOTA
8-down – Those confusing stories about right yew, wrong birds : GREY
12-down – Transmission of heat from cold source of water heading off, lots here heading off : CONDUCTION
13-down – Exotic location hot for Lennon’s partner and singer : HONOLULU
14-down – See 8 : WARBLERS
16-down – With nose in the gutter, journalist’s in business to grovel about : FACEDOWN
19-down – Edit communist performance : REDACT
20-down – See 4 : SHOW
21-down – Saddam – Iraq’s Arabic leader in hiding? : AMIR

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

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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.

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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.

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