Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22853 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22853 clues and answers were published on Tue 10 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22853 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Not abridged, containing nothing hot or vulgar : UNCOUTH
5-across – Leave the country, making note sound discordant : MIGRATE
9-across – Relieved student in credit notes bloom : GLADIOLUS
10-across – See 14 : EARTH
11-across – Wanting life to be exact : DEAD
12-across – Firm, injurious, losing 1-0 to champion of 4 : COPERNICUS
14-across – Tolkien setting the converse of 4? : MIDDLE
15-across – Look determined in Lewis’s cupboards : CLOSETS
16-across – Revolt in Hell? Blast! : DISGUST
18-across – When to indicate or appoint : ASSIGN
20-across – Revolutionary racket is interrupting gift-bearer : SANDINISTA
21-across – Almost crumble in fire : FLAK
24-across – Letter of thanks appended to article : THETA
25-across – Compiler’s taking little time to recover by foul means : IMMORALLY
26-across – Employ model that’s wrong – his didn’t involve 4 : PTOLEMY
27-across – Fishermen’s labour organisation? : NETWORK

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Encouraged – lost canoe, but still encouraged! : URGED
2-down – Interlinked cap and hat with which I made bread : CHAPATI
3-down – An integral component of munitions : UNIT
4-down – Man turned fuel to money and island state to metropolis at 12’s suggestion : HELIOCENTRICITY
5-down – Paper about flower and ship by island expert : MASTERCRAFTSMAN
6-down – Naive sort of music with potentially catastrophic effect : GREENHOUSE
7-down – Gold staple pinning plate to ear : AURICLE
8-down – Oriental pushes off to ancient city : EPHESUS
13-down – Referee may notice Hardy hero embracing Italy fan : ADJUDICATE
16-down – Silly sod kept publishing : DESKTOP
17-down – Headless horseman disturbed the resort : SANREMO
19-down – One prisoner raised sign to champion of 4 : GALILEO
22-down – Canoe unaffected by capsizing : KAYAK
23-down – Feature of fingerboard causes worry : FRET

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22852 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22852 clues and answers were published on Mon 09 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22852 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Cause to move, but only as a temporary measure : MAKESHIFT
9-across – Light inside by request : PRAYER
10-across – Strike a number with financial liabilities as extortionate : RAPACIOUS
11-across – The French interview a tenant : LESSEE
12-across – Fish to be taken with a rod, that’s quite plain : PIKESTAFF
13-across – Artist’s fanciful representation of a watercourse : STRAIT
17-across – Reckon on a clergyman joining : ADD
19-across – A cake, but not of soap : BATHBUN
20-across – Smuggle staple food up the Mersey : RUNCORN
21-across – What every child wants at Christmas – trifle : TOY
23-across – This is played away from school : TRUANT
27-across – Love making complaint : AFFECTION
28-across – The country’s not in a mess! : NATION
29-across – Say so long as one can forget about work for a while : TAKELEAVE
30-across – Painter might appear a twister : TURNER
31-across – The risk coming with running water : ADVENTURE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – A sheepish creature is one of a well-known trio : ARAMIS
3-down – Person avoiding making a point raved wildly : EVADER
4-down – Crowds around international leader and gives a boost : HOISTS
5-down – Blundered – took a meal outside on the windy side : FLUFFED
6-down – Out-of-the-ordinary police function : ARRESTING
7-down – Cosmetic promotion seen in viewer screen : EYESHADOW
8-down – A right toff in a South American country! : ARGENTINA
14-down – With reorganisation of station, be firm : OBSTINATE
15-down – Form certain to accept short setback with the start of term : STRUCTURE
16-down – Finding a party about over, left : ABANDONED
17-down – A social worker in Victorian times : ANT
18-down – Boring prohibitionist : DRY
22-down – Blase and far from satisfactory employee : OFFHAND
24-down – Think much of always having serving men around : REVERE
25-down – Swear when attending the big match! : ATTEST
26-down – The cleaner president : HOOVER

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22850 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22850 clues and answers were published on Fri 06 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22850 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

5-across – 6’s turn – turn bee into silk : QUEBEC
6-across – With last part of 1 11? : CANADA
9-across – Confession of a gadabout and globetrotter? : DAGAMA
10-across – Old nun wed fan shock in 6 : NEWFOUND
11-across – See 10 : LAND
12-across – 6’s, not 25, one including 9 : NOVASCOTIA
13-across – Make leaderless Navy obey rule, if you don’t mind : BYYOURLEAVE
18-across – Watch revolver obtained from another : SECONDHAND
21-across – Part of word given by orphan? : ROLE
22-across – 6’s torn off during dinner? : MONTREAL
23-across – 6’s Wessex is 11 : PRINCE
24-across – See 23 : EDWARD
25-across – See 23 : ISLAND

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Study of arms hardly embracing the Queen? Hardly : HERALDRY
2-down – Get back small change from the Queen in 6 : REGAIN
3-down – To devastate is, sadly, always part of the test : LAYWASTE
4-down – Worm eaten plate in Veronese’s name : PALOLO
5-down – Distant object as wrong as right : QUASAR
7-down – First loose broadcaster? : AUNTIE
8-down – A winter in France going topless? A joke everywhere : UNIVERSALLY
14-down – Ladies of a certain age adore LSD trips : OLDDEARS
15-down – Revised criticism with calf binding is standing up : VERTICAL
16-down – Ask a person to leave : BEGONE
17-down – Quiet piece of cloth in tartan : PLACID
19-down – A power circuit, perhaps, raised in 6 : OTTAWA
20-down – Put down flower without concession arising : DEPOSE

This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22849 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22849 clues and answers were published on Thu 05 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22849 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Caleb, too, sported this tie : BOOTLACE
5-across – Bad curtains cause annoyance : OFFEND
9-across – Clueless – even without pig! : IGNORANT
10-across – Shoe with a distinctive tongue : BROGUE
12-across – The offence of considerate vandalism : DESECRATION
15-across – Birds barred on the racecourse : RAILS
17-across – Without planning Post Office is in extreme disarray : EXTEMPORE
18-across – Given time, perhaps, on Judgement Day : SENTENCED
19-across – Problem over total : SUMUP
20-across – Bread supplier : MONEYLENDER
24-across – Singers trained at High School? : TENORS
25-across – Longed for by Attila with exceptional greed : HUNGERED
26-across – Endgame played by partners? : MATING
27-across – Politicians who figure things out? : STATISTS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Where conflicts of interest are resolved, unseen and tied up soundly : BLINDTRUST
2-down – Knowing all to be in most nice order : OMNISCIENT
3-down – Song written for the theatre : LYRIC
4-down – One who knows better days : CONVALESCENT
6-down – Freemason altered entries on birth certificate : FORENAMES
7-down – Advantage gained when bowler finds it … : EDGE
8-down – … low in pitch and away from wicket : DEEP
11-down – One Thursday wasted in period costume, like the Emperor’s : BIRTHDAYSUIT
13-down – Officers storing gold in ornamental chests : COMMODORES
14-down – Fabled sisters perished somehow guarding the last pair of apples : HESPERIDES
16-down – It makes things damp in the evening : STEAMIRON
21-down – King Edward had a problem with rye : ERGOT
22-down – Must stir unfermented grape juice : STUM
23-down – One of the Windsors in difficulty : KNOT

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22848 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22848 clues and answers were published on Wed 04 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22848 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – We get fed up about this government : SWEATEDLABOUR
10-across – Sassenachs, in short, mad about cutting out characters : ENGRAVING
11-across – One could be champion in a good car : RACER
12-across – Susie might have offspring : ISSUE
13-across – Flier got hind leg partially broken by accident : LINDBERGH
14-across – Colour is said to signify liquidity : READIES
16-across – A bad mouth may need this filling : AMALGAM
18-across – Gray mood caused smart worker to leave 1 ac. : ELEGIAC
20-across – Can a bird have inspired the poet’s quinquennial visit here? : TINTERN
21-across – Turn in vehicle insurance in Canada : VANCOUVER
23-across – Harsh sound of a politician : BLAIR
24-across – To do in a number of Dalmatians could be prickly : CACTI
25-across – One studies organic structure of western alliance in a fog : ANATOMIST
26-across – Royal spin in establishment with criminal class : PRINCECONSORT

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Wales gave unusual example of 1 : WAGESLAVE
3-down – Notice antiquity of a proverb : ADAGE
4-down – Isolates wavy lines between quarters : ENISLES
5-down – Go north in a car to get another : LAGONDA
6-down – A little intelligence may be above the man in the street : BIRDBRAIN
7-down – Cruel wound that’s hard to heal : ULCER
8-down – Unfashionable run for sailors : SENIORSERVICE
9-down – Chairman tried to convert Greek ecclesiastic : ARCHIMANDRITE
15-down – Is one Gray the work of a Spanish saint? : ISIDORIAN
17-down – Engineer reading about another soldier : GRENADIER
19-down – Something fishy leads to warning about air trip : CAVIARE
20-down – Rent difficulty caused a storm : TORNADO
22-down – Polish river’s said to be preferable : NICER
23-down – Parton’s characteristic blunders : BOOBS

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

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