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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22859 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22859 clues and answers were published on Tue 17 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22859 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – A 2001 joke going around, like the best Dodgers? : JAMMIEST
9-across – Top churchman to provide counselling service : RELATE
10-across – Indecision of sailor close to Mr Clary’s heart : ABULIA
11-across – Go and do over 6 – and live that positive feeling : GOODVIBE
12-across – Right to have one released by Martian : LIEN
13-across – They’ll save poor Dai’s family home : THEVALLEYS
15-across – Great giver of laws is absorbing : OSMOSES
16-across – Exalted rapper confiscating a thousand books : EMINENT
18-across – Unusual sofas, seesaws one’s dug into right away : TETEATETES
19-across – Shire’s new stock delivered in advance : OXON
20-across – Spooner’s against having cereal substance in chilli, say : SANTIAGO
22-across – One of the junior doctors serially admitted : INTERN
23-across – Issue a speciality of Turner with it missing : ESCAPE
24-across – This part of the Christian year is totally unconvincing, I’ve heard : HOLYWEEK

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A well-documented Yahoo boob: anti-environmentalists prepared lines for capital : MAYBEITSBECAUSE
2-down – See 1 : IMALONDONERTHAT
3-down – Section D: what centaurs were in film : DEPARTMENT
4-down – Nameless gangster dancing reel : STAGGER
5-down – Non-revolutionary roll, rich with butter, eggs and spirit : BRIO
6-down – See 1 : ILOVELONDONTOWN
7-down – … we don’t understand and the Mayor can’t deliver : ITSBEYONDOURKEN
14-down – Bailed criminal, having restrained spinster, is allowed in courtroom : ADMISSIBLE
17-down – One presented after final degeneration : ATROPHY
21-down – Flag-bearer holding women back in state : AVER

This crossword has in total 24 where 14 are across and 10 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22858 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22858 clues and answers were published on Mon 16 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22858 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Finished in a state of agitation : WOUNDUP
5-across – Diverts with morning exercises : AMUSES
9-across – One means cultivated flowers : ANEMONES
10-across – Grounds for a good man to back opera : STADIA
12-across – Navy planes in sorry state : PENNSYLVANIA
15-across – Rock climber? : BARBARYAPE
17-across – Man’s chains can be cast off : HIS
19-across – Show such anger in answering back : IRE
20-across – On-going course of action : PROCEEDING
22-across – It could help chap to shoot par, perhaps : APPROACHSHOT
26-across – Credit charge : IMPUTE
27-across – Dining at resort, a customer may call for one : GINANDIT
28-across – They tend to hurry back before the ship rounds the point : NURSES
29-across – Plot developer : SCHEMER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Bring ship round in river : WEAR
2-down – Customs of the American Middle West : USES
3-down – Once said to be a bishop : DIOCESAN
4-down – Tidy up? No, down! : PREEN
6-down – The kind of power often sought by detectives : MOTIVE
7-down – Drunk crashed in a single seater : SEDANCHAIR
8-down – Main course for travellers : SEAPASSAGE
11-down – Limited in one’s outlook : MYOPIC
13-down – The burden of debt : OBLIGATION
14-down – Agenda: make sure of your Guardian! : ORDERPAPER
16-down – One hundred in a cathedral city, said to be poor : YORICK
18-down – Eton chap seen around in Whitehall : CENOTAPH
21-down – Courage needed by the bedridden? : BOTTLE
23-down – Spots moles : SPIES
24-down – A mother provided for one who lacked one : ADAM
25-down – Wake up in the nick : STIR

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22856 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22856 clues and answers were published on Fri 13 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22856 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Old man used to land fish : GAFFER
5-across – Main part of evidence showing that Federal agents are holding right girl : GRAVAMEN
9-across – It’s attractive to phoney characters : HONEYPOT
10-across – Article taking one a little way to becoming a believer in God : THEIST
11-across – Star possessing great physical attraction? : HEAVENLYBODY
13-across – Where trouble’s expected to end in a fight : MILL
14-across – Businessman who takes a drink on the way back : IMPORTER
17-across – Call to rise as girls in the chorus do : SHOWALEG
18-across – It’s useless to instal one in the vehicle : VAIN
20-across – Carriage for one on patrol : PERAMBULATOR
23-across – Urge order in oil rig : LIBIDO
24-across – Not fit to appear in deshabille? : UNSUITED
25-across – Non-skaters who are in command? : OFFICERS
26-across – Model in synthetic resin from deposit in hot springs : SINTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – In a frenzy, though apparently claiming to be all right : AMOK
3-down – Another setback as the result of stiff breeze? : FRESHBLOW
4-down – The old familiar story traveller has to dine on : REPEAT
5-down – Sign of impending storm in crowd : GATHERINGCLOUDS
6-down – Animal seen to run on Mount Etna : ANTELOPE
7-down – Bitter and sour over some macabre calamity : ACERB
8-down – Simple working editors having no right to proceed cautiously : EASYDOESIT
12-down – Outstanding impression make by drunken replacement : HIGHRELIEF
15-down – Going back to the lapel lining’s number one fashion : REVERSION
16-down – Stick to drill, though wearisome to fellow members : CLUBBORE
19-down – Stoppage to assist reform : STASIS
21-down – Defence gets one bail improperly : ALIBI
22-down – Girl, we’re told, with characteristic responsibility : GENE

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22855 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22855 clues and answers were published on Thu 12 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22855 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Boy backing into girl with soup : JULIENNE
9-across – Discharge from space sounded : RHEUM
10-across – Principal tree lacks origin : ARCH
11-across – Pain in Chirac’s brain? : FRENCHLOAF
12-across – European river drowning many trees : TIMBER
14-across – Drunk teenager’s drink : GREENTEA
15-across – Loaded question about movement of late : WEALTHY
17-across – English trees provides solution : EYEWASH
20-across – Cover provided by staff in bar : SCREWTOP
22-across – Sport Times featured in spring report : BOXING
23-across – Very particular language beats lucid translation : SUBDIALECT
24-across – Release the Whitechapel Three … : FREE
25-across – … as Arabs may be, here? : BASRA
26-across – Open course or open snack, perhaps? : SANDWICH

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Variable value makes requital variable : QUARTILE
2-down – Near thing topped off : NIGH
3-down – East Londoner’s to once more consider turning criminal : KNIFER
4-down – A 3 a 2 they say? : REVENGE
5-down – China and Cuba on stony ground : CROCKERY
6-down – Preparation for documents once Spooner’s transporting luggage : SEALINGWAX
7-down – Setter’s bloodless skewer : IMPALE
13-down – Tree died amid party nonsense : BALDERDASH
16-down – She has a certain charm, as Shakespeare would say : HATHAWAY
18-down – Punishment that’s capital to a point : SENTENCE
19-down – A letter’s read out to placate : APPEASE
21-down – Round a hundred, old man : CHUBBY
22-down – Bay is not bay when at sea : BOTANY
24-down – Brown, soft soap : FAWN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22854 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22854 clues and answers were published on Wed 11 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22854 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Mo is a rascal concocting hair dressing : MACASSAROIL
9-across – Red truck beside quarry : CARMINE
10-across – Little girl with sitar stirred writer : DIARIST
11-across – Remains an outside agent for museum : ASHMOLEAN
12-across – Contemplate stocking superior dressing : GAUZE
13-across – Fellow hides in many an attic : LOFT
14-across – Stop and notice people getting tons of affection : ENDEARMENT
16-across – Man gets wind of betting system : MARTINGALE
19-across – Head of stable clipped tail : SCUT
21-across – One does not start a fire : INGLE
22-across – Establish escort eats whipped cream : DEMARCATE
24-across – English worker keeps on being stylish : ELEGANT
25-across – Punch hurts during capture : NAILSET
26-across – Amaryllis dresses badly without trendy husband : SHEPHERDESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Relentless advance of harridan supporting a month of hype : MARCHOFPROGRESS
2-down – Company adopts style that’s capital : CAIRO
3-down – Girl lived under speakeasy : SHEBEEN
4-down – Joiner takes venture fairly slowly : ANDANTE
5-down – Empty-headed boy hides Rover in the greenhouse : ORANGERY
6-down – The unemployed lied wildly about certain Tory women : LEISUREDCLASSES
7-down – Bad writing makes Bob cringe : SCRAWL
8-down – The way a good man catches a plane, for example : STREET
15-down – Erudite student to recite : LITERATE
16-down – Miss fellow catching fish : MAIDEN
17-down – Try getting wife to contribute equally : GODUTCH
18-down – Both queen and barbarian, when put up, like thin plates : LAMINAR
20-down – Agreement for attempt to catch swallow : TREATY
23-down – Lift the beams, we’re told : RAISE

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

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