Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22790 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22790 clues and answers were published on Fri 28 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22790 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Decide heartless exploit calls for a beating : DEFEAT
4-across – Show total return by one state : MUSICAL
9-across – Crazed male, an upholder of heresy : MANICHEAN
10-across – Second check round for plant extract : RESIN
11-across – Origins of short and long vowels obvious in salute : SALVO
12-across – Large computer for the scholar below me : MAINFRAME
13-across – Nattered endlessly, being moved to beg : ENTREAT
15-across – Man’s eating a horse on a full stomach! : HAGGIS
17-across – Dramatic moment when converted Catholic is reproduced : CRISIS
19-across – Animal swallowing bits of dog food, unable to get up : BEDFAST
22-across – Exaggerate: Queen Street split like an egg! : OVERSTATE
24-across – Contend a herb carries little weight : ARGUE
26-across – Coach at front of train in reversal of 1 across : TUTOR
27-across – On which to write role involving churchmen : PARCHMENT
28-across – Sweet beast sheltering artist : CARAMEL
29-across – Traverse black spine : BRIDGE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Elevated piece of nonsense – medieval house and grounds : DEMESNE
2-down – Home in autumn, almost non-negotiable : FINAL
3-down – Religious lady’s short reply about housework : ANCHORESS
4-down – Ascetic Scotsman confused Sikh : MONKISH
5-down – Ornament shoots up : SERIF
6-down – Joint lead in charge of a country : COSTARICA
7-down – Stay for underwear that’s missing : LINGER
8-down – The gnarled tree in protective cover : HELMET
14-down – Bully from the hills holding hands : TORMENTOR
16-down – Had to forget about the underworld boss : GODFATHER
18-down – Sequence of notes involving piano and lute – head surgeon’s instrument : SCALPEL
19-down – Appearance after drinking too much distilled barley? : BLEARY
20-down – Frame funny letters : TRESTLE
21-down – Cold drink dispenser from Egypt : COPTIC
23-down – Huddled mass of low-lifers bearing right : SCRUM
25-down – Insatiable appetite for g-grass : GREED

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22789 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22789 clues and answers were published on Thu 27 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22789 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Recurring sounds of wind and castanets are heard : CYCLIC
5-across – Awkward skier’s about to try : BOLSHY
8-across – Turned one large seed into vegetable plant : PETUNIA
9-across – Jousting tournament doesn’t include one pet : TANTRUM
11-across – 1 2 … but not first and second! : CARDINALNUMBERS
12-across – Leave it behind once? : EXIT
13-across – Arrangement for string players : CATSCRADLE
17-across – Where woodmen stay is light brown and cold inside : LUMBERCAMP
18-across – Blow friends over : SLAP
20-across – Close to 3.75p once? : NEARASNINEPENCE
23-across – Crook causing stink about piles with quarters missing : HOODLUM
24-across – One couple takes it to reproduce : IMITATE
25-across – Back in a jiffy : SECOND
26-across – Sinkhole holding king’s spit : SKEWER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – My tribute made to element : YTTERBIUM
3-down – Fast on the Italian pulse : LENTIL
4-down – Coach horse to take most of risk on the outside : CHARABANC
5-down – Interdiction that’s about to stick : BATON
6-down – Important event when dead man’s head is found in Scottish town : LANDMARK
7-down – Smack the pony : HORSE
8-down – Type of meal that was insipid, according to Spooner : PACKEDLUNCH
10-down – Teams recipe for developing outstanding performance : MASTERPIECE
14-down – Meaningful study : SEMANTICS
15-down – Describe food store’s elegant point : DELINEATE
16-down – Sources of energy arising around the queen’s harem : SERAGLIO
19-down – Hate holding royal imp : SPRITE
21-down – Stood by any other name from Shakespeare? : AROSE
22-down – Traveller’s mother in tacit agreement : NOMAD

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22788 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22788 clues and answers were published on Wed 26 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22788 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Most domestic trouble is unobtrusive : MODEST
4-across – Lad rejected gift, which is outrageous : FLAGRANT
9-across – US state like a lake in Africa : NYASA
10-across – Peers slow to reform, lacking teeth : POWERLESS
11-across – Like asbestos, if backing censure : FIREPROOF
12-across – Where to eat in Germany? : ESSEN
13-across – Futile party? : LABOURINVAIN
17-across – Inquisitor used terror to gain conversion : INTERROGATOR
20-across – Rating in bed with navigator : CABOT
21-across – Drunken Argonauts in the pink : ANGOSTURA
23-across – Holds back from occurrence of poor weather during vacations : RESTRAINS
24-across – Mature divinity writer : RIPEN
25-across – Benefit swallowed by cost of a room that’s odorous : REDOLENT
26-across – Like Teresa – chemistry isn’t the same without her : MYSTIC

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Various kinds of person entitled to a pension : MANIFOLD
2-down – Ride a bit carelessly and get a wigging : DIATRIBE
3-down – Rogue politician fell over : SCAMP
5-down – Cooking a fowl means a dubious mathematical proposition : LAWOFAVERAGES
6-down – State call includes study of cultivation : GARDENING
7-down – In game play is a form of discrimination : AGEISM
8-down – Barley drink makes girl sit up : TISANE
10-down – Anti-abortion : PROLIFERATION
14-down – Contrived murder most foul : UNNATURAL
15-down – Drab end of brass instrument : STRUMPET
16-down – Spirit of fear Magna Carta conveys : ARMAGNAC
18-down – One writing notes to scratch a living? : SCORER
19-down – Indulged in sort of bad habit : ABUSED
22-down – One’s mood voiced on premature arousal? : SURLY

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22787 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22787 clues and answers were published on Tue 25 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22787 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – 14 across’s line from wretched page was doleful endless Antarctic sigh : GREATGODTHISIS
9-across – Fuse current with one’s call out from faulty electricals : ACCRETE
10-across – See 1 : ANAWFUL
11-across – See 1 : PLACE
12-across – Warmer support for cricket in the Dickens canon? : HEARTHRUG
13-across – Condition induced by foot-tapping? : HAMMERTOE
14-across – See 14 down : SCOTT
15-across – Ulster reprobate one’s charged repeatedly : NICAD
17-across – Archers’ ground about to open up here! : CAMBRIDGE
20-across – One from old Labour left one in the clan : TRIBUNITE
22-across – With Good Morning! exchanged on entering : AMONG
23-across – Convenience outside one’s primitive shelter : LEISURE
24-across – Sectarians from Ithaca, right? Wrong! : CATHARI
25-across – Water his plants freely, the Lakeland way : WHINLATTERPASS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Bell the cat; alternatively, strangle the pet : GRASPTHENETTLE
2-down – Thunderclap curtailed in Eastern mix-up : EXCLAIM
3-down – Virgil’s lines against leaving heaven during tide change : THEAENEID
4-down – On strike? Pass! : OVERHIT
5-down – Teach a king English, with an hour off for a bite? : TEACAKE
6-down – Lacking skill over drums, I’m leaving : INAPT
7-down – Understand no part of La Divina Commedia : INFERNO
8-down – Swag? Swag not legit: not with nil result! : ILLGOTTENGAINS
14-down – Novelist changes bed with encompassing wrist action : SIRWALTER
16-down – A noted gathering of the clans? : CEILIDH
17-down – False impression from Conservative: give him time : CHIMERA
18-down – Many create confusion; one got a view from David Attenborough! : MEERCAT
19-down – Fashionable Christian with a degree in display : DIORAMA
21-down – Trucker’s tergiversation? : UTURN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22786 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22786 clues and answers were published on Mon 24 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22786 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Container ship : PACKET
4-across – Pose, holding award: a form of acceptance : SOBEIT
9-across – Stygian fare : OBOL
10-across – A subject for those who have a mind to study : PSYCHIATRY
11-across – Thus a West African country becomes an East African : SOMALI
12-across – Party member who went to pot : DORMOUSE
13-across – Its members have strong links : CHAINGANG
15-across – Deep sea fish : BASS
16-across – EXCELS : CAPS
17-across – Dare to raise objection : CHALLENGE
21-across – Holy orders? : CANONLAW
22-across – Jack has a way with him in foreign parts : ABROAD
24-across – One needs capital, becoming number one in France : PROPERNOUN
25-across – It turns to face the blow : VANE
26-across – Aunt about to get a distinction in Indian dance : NAUTCH
27-across – Trial to find alternative to softwood : ORDEAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Piped music : PIBROCH
2-down – Alice is out to get her : CELIA
3-down – Discovering English work of intelligence : ESPYING
5-down – Processed heroin available at a price : ONHIRE
6-down – Complicated to work out : ELABORATE
7-down – Forcibly puts forward awkward truths to school head : THRUSTS
8-down – Confirmed they do lie down all over the place : DYEDINTHEWOOL
14-down – I’m ready with first-rate ad-lib : IMPROMPTU
16-down – Arching in embarrassment : CHAGRIN
18-down – Left one gainfully employed as an apprentice : LEARNER
19-down – Several flukes prevent the balloon going up : GRAPNEL
20-down – Cloth worker? : CLERIC
23-down – Show, we hear, to look back on : REVUE

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

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