Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22866 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22866 clues and answers were published on Wed 25 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22866 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Old eco-warrior gets politician into power : SWAMPY
4-across – Flair for 12 suffering : PANACHE
9-across – Mixed 4 milligrams of drink : CHAMPAGNE
10-across – Get over feeling irritated : CROSS
11-across – However, 20 went out for a snack : BUTTY
12-across – Picture makers getting valuers in : UNIVERSAL
13-across – Excursion to oil-producing city : TRIPOLI
15-across – Almost lose sight of mischief maker : GOBLIN
17-across – Satisfied about vessel’s sales potential : MARKET
19-across – Seek information on family of fruit : PUMPKIN
22-across – In Iran, bat supplies the national emblem : BRITANNIA
24-across – The lad in charge of the boom, perhaps : SONIC
26-across – Creeper effecting a clawback : LIANA
27-across – A weapon receiving humble consideration : ALLOWANCE
28-across – Shakespearean young lovers initially in trauma : SHYLOCK
29-across – Onyx set near every other jewel’s origin : OYSTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Wine barrel shortened by instrument : SACKBUT
2-down – Film awards back to front at the back : ABAFT
3-down – Bloom’s bird nonsense : POPPYCOCK
4-down – Looking around Oriental capital : PEEKING
5-down – Ideal position for local French hospital? : NICHE
6-down – Hacks take credit for dining utensil : CHOPSTICK
7-down – Ancient solvers holding girl up without much ado : EASILY
8-down – Rodent, one supporting a painful condition : AGOUTI
14-down – Single woman accepting a drink that’s fantastic : IMAGINARY
16-down – Let them have it! – local Indian proverb? : BOMBSAWAY
18-down – It’s for pinning colour on half of air gun : TINTACK
19-down – P-premature description of London’s king : PEARLY
20-down – Central rule can break down : NUCLEAR
21-down – Round lump sum of old money : OBOLUS
23-down – Military encounter in the fashion of the moment : ALAMO
25-down – Musicians without access to websites? : NONET

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22864 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22864 clues and answers were published on Mon 23 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22864 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Gunfire from ship-borne gunners : BARRAGE
5-across – Director of river boats to keep locks in order? That’s dandy! : COXCOMB
10-across – Earnings do not begin for a long time : AGES
11-across – Anger badly mishandled on the whole : BYANDLARGE
12-across – Rob irregular corporal of horse : BRONCO
13-across – Room at the top? : AIRSPACE
14-across – Players one team dropped : CASTASIDE
16-across – Work of monumental stupidity : FOLLY
17-across – Head stableboy drove off with a lively horse : STEED
19-across – Dive that lorry drivers try to avoid : JACKKNIFE
23-across – A vicious circle? : VICERING
24-across – Shut up! : IMMURE
26-across – Start of play : FIRSTNIGHT
27-across – Stuff to study for an exam : CRAM
28-across – They took over from the night shift : PYJAMAS
29-across – Vessel churning up water left and right : TRAWLER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Regalia thrown out by republic : ALGERIA
3-down – About to break the law, by gum : RESIN
4-down – Having the hump : GIBBOUS
6-down – Directions taken by clergymen : ORDERS
7-down – Stringent restrictions take vice to a low level : CLAMPDOWN
8-down – Supernatural calm created round a soldier : MAGICAL
9-down – Cases of eviction? : BAGANDBAGGAGE
15-down – Dates may be seen around this place : THEREDSEA
18-down – College group : TRINITY
20-down – One providing cast-off clothing? : KNITTER
21-down – Prohibited sort of beard : FORBADE
22-down – Girl is brought up in Italy : SIENNA
25-down – Tropical bird with head of myna and a cry of a rook : MACAW

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22862 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22862 clues and answers were published on Fri 20 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22862 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Humourless dandy in recession unable to retrieve service : POFACED
5-across – Serious money : CAPITAL
9-across – Group of ten, one taken away : NONET
10-across – John senses abnormal laxity : LOOSENESS
11-across – His cherubs depicted cheekily, upsetting his moony cherubs : HIERONYMUS
12-across – Hack gets the sack : CHOP
14-across – Massive stirrers stick with sociable people : CEMENTMIXERS
18-across – Always after a winter warmer, Grant lodged a complaint : SCARLETFEVER
21-across – Supporter of a fish : AIDE
22-across – Religious figure often hailed to safeguard one’s religious nation – such as I? : MISSIONARY
25-across – One in pursuit of Croesus’s cash remains missing, mysteriously : SUCCESSOR
26-across – See 11 : BOSCH
27-across – Writer turns from the listener in favour of family : NEPOTIC
28-across – Know moves with arm and hand : WORKMAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Aggressive, feeble companion arrested : PUNCHY
2-down – Infer object is a fireside frame : FENDER
3-down – Black singer maintaining tenor arrangement is repellent : CITRONELLA
4-down – Reportedly the first W in genetic engineering? : DOLLY
5-down – One’s fried in oil when flirt embraces king : CCOQUETTE
6-down – Look for little sound : PEEP
7-down – See 4 : THESHEEP
8-down – Late dispatch sounded at late dispatch? : LASTPOST
13-down – Doctor admits this setter’s pudding, but I’ll go down fighting! : DIVEBOMBER
15-down – Having dismissed Australian opener, incredibly certain six is not involved : EXTRINSIC
16-down – When our secret troops are bad, one kills : ASSASSIN
17-down – Help one to get better, given disadvantage : HANDICAP
19-down – Overtake on motorway, reversing here and there : PASSIM
20-down – Dash into dress-rehearsal, say : HYPHEN
23-down – Stitch up with thread? : SCREW
24-down – Source of sugar cane, reportedly : BEET

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22861 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22861 clues and answers were published on Thu 19 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22861 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Rendering of inferno after hot tin? Huge pity! : OUTOFTHEFRYING
9-across – Waste to get long spell in prison : DUNGEON
10-across – Clip king in bar : EXCERPT
11-across – Heard to predict when it’s a bore : AUGER
12-across – Collapse of sport with one race : RUINATION
13-across – Like this fighting all the time? : CATANDDOG
14-across – I’d meat rejected by holy leader : MAHDI
15-across – Swell when poisonous weed lacks power : SURGE
17-across – Drunken pool night exploring the nether regions : POTHOLING
20-across – Of course Nijinsky was one : RACEHORSE
22-across – South American Indian tribe found in the foothills? : SCREE
23-across – Weave in between, but not be woven : ENTWINE
24-across – Demanding information that’s going around : EXIGENT
25-across – See 1 : PANINTOTHEFIRE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – UK charters? : ORDNANCESURVEY
2-down – This evening drink is drawing near : TONIGHT
3-down – Row after resistance in charge is not from the battery : FREERANGE
4-down – This spirit would be the greatest proof of all : HUNDRED
5-down – Under pressure from being 1across 25 : FEELING
6-down – Plant with lofted precision when not using driving club : YUCCA
7-down – Only poor environment for women in city : NORWICH
8-down – ’tisn’t negligent smashing natural hazard : STINGINGNETTLE
14-down – Spirits glow in the dark : MOONSHINE
16-down – Creamy cheese used in apricot tart : RICOTTA
17-down – See 4 : PERCENT
18-down – See 5 : THEHEAT
19-down – El Al is name dissociated from unstable airlines : ISRAELI
21-down – Island’s greeting around part of Hispaniola : HAITI

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22860 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22860 clues and answers were published on Wed 18 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22860 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Trade on offers supplied by Shakespearean scene : FOREST
4-across – Take one voice in Venice : RIALTO
9-across – Money to chew? : QUID
10-across – Sir John and Sir Bernard served Thatcher with a 1 across : NOTTINGHAM
11-across – 1 across to peg out and peg in? : EPPING
12-across – Depression or trouble caused by beetle? : COLORADO
13-across – Old instrument for a walk without L-Lincoln : ASTROLABE
15-across – Ecclesiastical 1 across? : DEAN
16-across – Chief of the Star Chamber : ARCH
17-across – Oarsman on island has a go on a typewriter : KEYSTROKE
21-across – 1 across taken to court in the case of the pottery fragment : SHERWOOD
22-across – New 1 across features 25 9s : PONIES
24-across – The old order changeth can never go : GOVERNANCE
25-across – See 26 : GODS
26-across – Character at the gallery such as Aeolus and his like : NATURE
27-across – Nurse or doctor 1 across : FOSTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Bloomer reported by Dario and Dad? : FAUXPAS
2-down – Half-Welsh 1 across with two circular lines : RADII
3-down – Swimmer holds back information in Africa : SENEGAL
5-down – Singular French firm stifling a touch of class – it points downwards : ICICLE
6-down – Drink causes prisoner to make mistake about buzzer : LAGERBEER
7-down – See 1 across : OFARDEN
8-down – Having a stud of a sort in a singular article of clothing : STOCKBREEDING
14-down – Where a dog is concerned, payment is continually cropping up : RECURRENT
16-down – 1 across tree felled : ASHDOWN
18-down – Chief is wrestling before coming in : SUPREMO
19-down – 1 across is red, like revolutionary : KIELDER
20-down – Woodworker doesn’t want to be left out : JOINER
23-down – Brief last greeting sounds noble : NIGHT

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

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