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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22831 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22831 clues and answers were published on Thu 15 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22831 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Drink and drink, missing a round – pass one : COCACOLA
9-across – Intrude force in go-slow? : TRUDGE
10-across – Weirdo gives horse to king : GEEK
11-across – Knuckle down to working one’s ____ to the ____ : FINGERBONE
12-across – Guardian articles a model among a lot of newspapers? : FOURTH
14-across – Don’t let one drink to the foregoing : SUPPRESS
15-across – The first 45 minutes slightly burns the pictures in a residential area : HOUSING
17-across – Liberal use of writing? : BRAILLE
20-across – Road on Riviera or in southwest England, as they say? : CORNICHE
22-across – See 2 : ENGINE
23-across – Stairs – outside stairs – as removed and destroyed at dawn : FIRSTLIGHT
24-across – After 24 down, the 12 means freedom : JULY
25-across – Terrible tease at first part of 3 concerned with 15 : ESTATE
26-across – Sugary affair heard to come back after being booed? : MERINGUE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Aria from bird of peace – like this number? : DOVESONO
2-down – Thomas Ken put in fruit without hesitation : TANK
3-down – Clown turning up on a high with a scrubber : LOOFAH
4-down – Listener’s home, the grave? : EARNEST
5-down – A term pet used to adapt old style : ATTEMPER
6-down – Truancy where being 4 was important for the interment of a small cake : BUNBURYING
7-down – See 25 : AGENTS
13-down – One with a great future? Rats! : RISINGSTAR
16-down – Mr Bean, raised outside prison, provides 22across 15s : NACELLES
18-down – Lion and mule entangled on the floor : LINOLEUM
19-down – Ice for a short time in Italy : BERGAMO
21-down – Not necessary to expose 10 toes : OTIOSE
22-down – Milk from the next or the next but one house : EXTORT
24-down – I keep a French month : JUNE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22830 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22830 clues and answers were published on Wed 14 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22830 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Anger at nasty smell from plant : BORAGE
4-across – Lovely Carol eating potatoes : SMASHING
9-across – Italian territory to which American and Canadian go : TUSCAN
10-across – Lost in a tower, some characters found passage reappearing : OSTINATO
11-across – Piece of cartilage given six chops – dire op bungled? : XIPHOIDPROCESS
13-across – Mark on script by a man in charge looking after things : CARETAKING
14-across – One may be seen as old after end of first year! : TYRO
16-across – Book that’s recalled in English test : TOME
18-across – Note a register with hardly any notes? : MINIMALIST
21-across – One rebelling is transformed by books of Bible, becoming peaceful : NONBELLIGERENT
23-across – One may be surprised when they go up – must be hairy! : EYEBROWS
24-across – Against having a girl around as a slave : VASSAL
25-across – Contests organised by general in one of his towns? : TOURNEYS
26-across – On the street catch the sound of old newspaperman : HEARST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – What could be outside room at end of spout? : BUTT
2-down – Runs coming with one big hit more likely to get you caught out : RISKIER
3-down – Black stuff in earth pig turned over : GRAPHITE
5-down – Girl in limbo lashing out irresponsibly : MISSPENDING
6-down – Sledge in slide, going over over over! : SKIDOO
7-down – Grandma dumped in one city without any thought : INANELY
8-down – Fine fellow with items to sell on the harbour : GOODSPORT
12-down – Nice walk I’d arranged on unknown Roman road : ICKNIELDWAY
13-down – Company chap accepting first indications from the accountants – normal ratio : COTANGENT
15-down – Coach wants bit of commitment, not bit of moaning, in match : CARRIAGE
17-down – Fellow with gold round fringes of the cloak : MANTEAU
19-down – One makes atmosphere, charged with excitement, noisier! : IONISER
20-down – Cell’s nucleus lacking in particle : NEURON
22-down – Lump hard to get out of fabric : CLOT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22829 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22829 clues and answers were published on Tue 13 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22829 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Dazed, having swallowed cigar butt and likely to croak? : FROGGY
4-across – Woolworth initially invested in mouldy ragout, given struggling competition : TUGOFWAR
9-across – Part of holiday : LEAVE
10-across – Relapse, left in cheeky situation : BACKSLIDE
11-across – Beautiful girl carying a gun is nothing to worry about : BAGATELLE
12-across – Bum somewhat plump on celebrity : PONCE
13-across – Trees – a restful sort of early offer : FIRSTREFUSAL
17-across – Creature from ancient China : HOMINGPIGEON
20-across – Dump the wife, if I were you : DITCH
21-across – Boat song of which dog heard part : BARCAROLE
23-across – Mixed dhal, a nice spicy dish : ENCHILADA
24-across – Don leaves oath by which those who live also die : SWORD
25-across – Sea barrier commanded to restrict canal barrier : BLOCKADE
26-across – Reportedly, this works soil no longer fertile : SPAYED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Picture specialist student doctor attending university after one admitted to a succession of poor grades : FILMBUFF
2-down – Golden year pursuing passion fruit here : ORANGERY
3-down – Commoner alleging bureaucrat¿s confused : GREAT
5-down – See 3 : UNCLEBULGARIA
6-down – May I have your attention admits false hope with gas pipes : OESOPHAGI
7-down – Cry when Mandela’s spoken : WHINNY
8-down – Smoking jacket? : REEFER
10-down – Notices location where directors have been shot? : BULLETINBOARD
14-down – Overly stupid parking installed leaves one manoeuvring into narrow space : TOOTHPICK
15-down – Punishing course of study at poly gone to be reshaped : PENOLOGY
16-down – Fiance punched in the stomach having lost head grabbing 3 and 7 : INTENDED
18-down – Sailor rounds port having jettisoned love happily, say : ADVERB
19-down – Minor wounds turned over, applying firm plaster : STUCCO
22-down – Storyteller’s revolutionary main work : AESOP

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22828 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22828 clues and answers were published on Mon 12 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22828 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – How father put sugar over the vegetable shoots? : ASPARAGUS
10-across – Liquid used in some thermometers : ETHER
11-across – Spanish gentleman’s secret goal, perhaps : HIDALGO
12-across – Mystery of cuckoopint found outside container : ARCANUM
13-across – Recalled Oriental island’s fame : NAME
14-across – Masculine element taken into account by criminal : MALEFACTOR
15-across – Embrace the French model with throat-band : NECKLET
17-across – Object to something in the paper . . . : ARTICLE
19-across – . . . about French town sign for theological colleges : SEMINARIES
22-across – It’s a long story about a thing without substance : SAGA
23-across – Integrity shown in bed, perhaps : HONESTY
24-across – When one man came in, another was grateful : THANKED
26-across – Milk drunk in Columbus’s ship? : PINTA
27-across – Elgar work won’t upset Darlington, for example : LARGETOWN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Decide to gamble no further on finding money in the food : CASHINONESCHIPS
2-down – Rash to dip me in ice stupidly : EPIDEMIC
3-down – Examination raising some regular objections : ORAL
4-down – Uninformed soldier turning to girl with book : IGNORANT
5-down – Left possessions in landed property : ESTATE
6-down – Ismail features in French sea song : MERCHANT
7-down – Isle that’s lying about northeast : THANET
8-down – More grand screen characters seen at the Victorian place of entertainment : CREMORNEGARDENS
16-down – Inexperienced seafarer comes ashore on island : LANDSMAN
17-down – Drink a Conservative takes, depending on chance : ALEATORY
18-down – Crazy person may be expert on drug : CRACKPOT
20-down – Mother to get granny one tomorrow : MANANA
21-down – Sails with the top people : ROYALS
25-down – In these days we may be stricken with fear : AWED

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22826 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22826 clues and answers were published on Fri 09 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22826 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Small game hunter certain to trap like Adam’s son : BASSETHOUND
9-across – Humiliate Heather in game : BOWLING
10-across – Force Georgia to be accepted by new partner : BRIGADE
11-across – Mean social worker is a supervisor : INTENDANT
12-across – Risk losing head or spleen : ANGER
13-across – Allowance for waste is wrongly treated : TRET
14-across – Length of interval in the middle : CENTIMETRE
16-across – Wild Australian orgy : SATURNALIA
19-across – Bill swallows note in the thick of it : AMID
21-across – Endlessly make up with husband – a yob : ROUGH
22-across – Insensible jazz fan needs a shot in the arm : CATATONIC
24-across – Slag gets drawstrings for bloomers : PANTIES
25-across – People briefly granted money for camphor : MENTHOL
26-across – Discovers lapse in hazard warning : RUMBLESTRIP

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Law officer bends birch, say, on smuggler. About time! : BOWSTREETRUNNER
2-down – Shoot Communist leader in Israel : SCION
3-down – Avenger failing to impress : ENGRAVE
4-down – A short time in, for example, Derby’s environment : HABITAT
5-down – Accidentally ruins map when protesting furiously : UPINARMS
6-down – Checker on liner shows artistic ability : DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
7-down – Died first protecting old player : OBOIST
8-down – Picks up eastern vehicle : HEARSE
15-down – Charisma, sadly, is a thing of the past : ARCHAISM
16-down – Band outing in Kent : STRIPE
17-down – Tory delved into casual treatment of complaint : ACCUSAL
18-down – Geographical feature is like this round Maidenhead : ISTHMUS
20-down – It’s manageable when wrongly coiled : DOCILE
23-down – Catch up on alternative trend : TENOR

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

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