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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22847 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22847 clues and answers were published on Tue 03 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22847 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – See 11 : ANOTHERCOUNTRY
8-across – R1-O2, BT’s version of R2-D2? : ROBOT
9-across – As Pooter, Cratchit and Heep relish KC’s blunder : CLERKISH
11-across – The words 23 needed when accused in huntin’ his totty at random … : BUTTHAT
12-across – … by moral degeneracy we observed in a Deptford stabbing victim : MARLOWE
13-across – See 11 : SIDES
15-across – Hibernation protracted huntsman’s return : LONGSLEEP
17-across – New poet spilling half preprandial drink with his tablet : NOTEPAPER
20-across – See 11 : WASIN
21-across – Rod Stewart’s first idea jolly! : SIDEARM
23-across – Born Arab, like 12’s Jew from Valletta? : BARABAS
25-across – Free music! Which publishers cut-price Charles Ives overtures? : CAPRICCI
26-across – See 11 : ANDBE
27-across – See 11 : THEWENCHISDEAD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Barn, I guess, is deployed for farmers’ market : AGRIBUSINESS
2-down – Beat or scrap : ORBIT
3-down – Knots increasing as one ties the knot : HITCHESUP
4-down – Dead right I see to invade retrospective performance : RECITAL
5-down – Have too many hands on the isle? : OVERMAN
6-down – Sail free from Alistair Campbell’s pursuit? One’s beaten! : NAKER
7-down – They make good pictures : RESTORERS
10-down – Block booking cancelled? So stay cool! : KEEPONESHEAD
14-down – Perform poem in that dreadful silence! : DOTODEATH
16-down – Scavengers to slip through waste’s disposal : SEWERRATS
18-down – Training note: Preserve emergency rations! : PEMICAN
19-down – Refuse to criticise : RUBBISH
22-down – Unknowingly, Longfellow lost this quarrel : ARROW
24-down – Hector has no right to the insignia : BADGE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22846 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22846 clues and answers were published on Mon 02 Jun 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22846 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – High-pitched river battle : FALSETTO
9-across – Mount framing an artist in his element : ARARAT
10-across – Provides encouragement for poaching, say : EGGS
11-across – Boy going to school in Suffolk : FELIXSTOWE
12-across – Lots follow second test : SAMPLE
14-across – Dwelling is rented out : RESIDENT
15-across – Speech written on an envelope : ADDRESS
17-across – Feeling guilty, has made reparations : ASHAMED
20-across – An automatic grill should do it : BROWNING
22-across – Lie back, having eaten – whacked! : BIFFED
23-across – The issue of offspring : GRANDCHILD
24-across – Clever stroke to point : CUTE
25-across – Operatic heroine that is at heart betrayed : ISOLDE
26-across – Impressed by eastern flight : STAMPEDE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Vehicle needs protection at the front : VANGUARD
2-down – One member of the family currently at Oxford : ISIS
3-down – Choke is left out : STIFLE
4-down – Post on ship or shore for a sailor : BOLLARD
5-down – Teams in the markets for left-wingers : MARXISTS
6-down – The prodigal son’s return fare : FATTEDCALF
7-down – I want a free, democratic island : TAIWAN
13-down – Blue shellfish : PERIWINKLE
16-down – They join together in operations : STITCHES
18-down – Calm water at dusk : EVENTIDE
19-down – Opposed to profit in a way : AGAINST
21-down – Most unusual form of arrest : RAREST
22-down – Wrongly blamed for the uproar : BEDLAM
24-down – Cut a cloak : COPE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22843 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22843 clues and answers were published on Thu 29 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22843 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Texan should remember to remove ends from sausage with love : ALAMO
10-across – This is asking for trouble … Who I use to iron : HOUSEWIFE
11-across – Spend more scattering a bit of flower seed : ENDOSPERM
12-across – Opposites preserving time for 8 : LAGER
13-across – Note writer, one will take risks : GAMBLER
15-across – Leader of guides and peaceful girl turning a hundred in a class of their own : GENERIC
17-across – Some theorem appears to transform a function once more : REMAP
18-across – Encourage – say good : EGG
20-across – Go back to amateur operator writing system of old : OGHAM
22-across – Round the bend a river ebbing, seeking stones on the way : MACADAM
25-across – 31 of second insult incomplete : SAFFRON
26-across – Mendicant service revolves around religion : FRIAR
27-across – Yet what’s said to reflect art is art! : STILLLIFE
30-across – Poor state of Alabama in hell hit badly : ILLHEALTH
31-across – Jelly topped with drug brings excitement : SPICE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – 31 club : MACE
2-down – 31 for king, perhaps, taking a little time to mature, initially : CARDAMOM
3-down – My editor’s a stud! : BOSS
4-down – Stretcher made of sandalwood? : SHOETREE
5-down – 31 girl with fan on top : NUTMEG
6-down – Unfashionable Duke caught by aristocrat, given reprimand : TELLINGOFF
7-down – 31 girl … : GINGER
8-down – possibly with it to wear the crown? : BEER
13-down – 31 bringing torment turning up in the morning, sadly in the morning brought up : GARAM
14-down – I said pearl should be reset – by us? : LAPIDARIES
16-down – 31 to enter, if mispronounced? : CUMIN
19-down – In the beginning, God provided a minor form of illumination : GASLIGHT
21-down – Rich, or if poor, frightful : HORRIFIC
23-down – 31 not what it’s supposed to be, they say : CHILLI
24-down – See 13 : MASALA
26-down – Just for entertainment : FAIR
28-down – Record of composer heard : LIST
29-down – Description of number, but not the first? : EVEN

This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22842 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22842 clues and answers were published on Wed 28 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22842 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – A hot steam work-out that will stop bleeding : HAEMOSTAT
10-across – Hat or necklace or armband redhead removed : TOQUE
11-across – Thatcher’s injunction for Tim to embrace Sloppy Joe : REJOICE
12-across – Not prepared for any rude letters : UNREADY
13-across – Smyrna now is water, so to speak : IZMIR
14-across – Token for hop-picker going to pot : POKERCHIP
16-across – Knotty Ash, perhaps, ends sound work by Hawthorne : TANGLEWOODTALES
19-across – Chaps : ROYALFERN
21-across – Be a fool about a lady of rank : BEGUM
22-across – Crusoe’s original place in Scotland : SELKIRK
23-across – Arrogance demonstrated in flashback by film director : HAUTEUR
24-across – Capital before Tokyo rose – or Tokyo collapsed? : KYOTO
25-across – Member of ruling class in naked drug orgy! : GRANDDUKE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Part of circuit training beginning with the morris dance? : THERMISTOR
2-down – Poet finding no rhyme for Jeremy Bentham, unfortunately : BETJEMAN
3-down – After the end of winter a tree appears more promising : ROSIER
4-down – Pen must go on top of escritoire – there’s a problem with the lid : STYE
5-down – Vehicle delayed initially in snowdrift is made late : STRUCKDOWN
6-down – High spot for Jack entertained by Jacobin : MTARARAT
7-down – Game crowd : SQUASH
8-down – Company getting past, holding up victory in Europe : BEVY
14-down – Rough pegs worked in potentially explosive situations : POWDERKEGS
15-down – Stiff examination : POSTMORTEM
17-down – Sweet ship? That’s good? : LOLLIPOP
18-down – Woody’s line of fire : LIGNEOUS
20-down – Chicken or canary, perhaps : YELLOW
21-down – They may be beaten in spring : BOUNDS
22-down – A drink for Pete’s follower : SAKE
23-down – Kid giving old Vietnamese leader a kiss : HOAX

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22841 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22841 clues and answers were published on Tue 27 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22841 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Engaged with reporter’s stronghold : FOUGHT
6-across – See 13 : OFHEALTH
9-across – Very brief support : SECOND
10-across – Soviet leader to fall within a month : ANDROPOV
11-across – Same changes in time and money to swallow : HOUSEMARTIN
15-across – See 1 : WOULDBE
17-across – Inside – almost outside – the front page is lacking in taste : INSIPID
18-across – Unusually vigorous work of a model student in Greece : EMERGETICAL
22-across – Greek island sound with Method actors on the move : ROADSHOW
23-across – How much for a horse? : AMOUNT
24-across – Hustling needed to get heater : SUNLIGHT
25-across – Half 19 having a peep at you : VOYEUR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Risk a penalty without aspiring to be slim and good? Impossible! : CHANCE
2-down – See1 : AFINETHING
3-down – Directions in heraldry : BEARINGS
4-down – Seek compliments and purchaser for recovered raptor : FISHHAWK
5-down – Greasy hook lifted out to be inserted : UNCTUOUS
7-down – Take long strides to cut-off point : LOPE
8-down – Construct a heaven for people who are puzzling to an establishment that keeps them at a little distance and see what’s in it for you : HAVE
12-down – See 8 : ANEYETOTHE
13-down – Beekeeping : APICTURE
14-down – I’m on my knees and my performance is deferred : IDOLATER
16-down – Hide from horned beast : DEERSKIN
19-down – Drum generated by piper? : TOMTOM
20-down – Members getting their 3? : ARMS
21-down – See 8 : MAIN

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

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