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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22822 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22822 clues and answers were published on Mon 05 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22822 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Gets the dog and looks around : SECURES
5-across – The last month the Left are to speak out : DECLARE
9-across – Inane make-up for a girl : ANNIE
10-across – Times in a cathedral for carpeting : AXMINSTER
11-across – A poser before a nurse : PRETENDER
12-across – Sauce bottle : NERVE
13-across – A relation calling for a certain amount of cooperation : RATIO
15-across – Bread scattered among the leftovers for a bird : REDBREAST
18-across – Writing about some furniture restorer : REDRESSER
19-across – Many love tea and coffee : MOCHA
21-across – Blows on the feet : SOCKS
23-across – Dismiss ministers as a sign of contrition : SACKCLOTH
25-across – Entertainment managers find the really naughty child is rare, surprisingly : IMPRESARI
26-across – Petition the Conservative leader to go on : CRAVE
27-across – Excellent publicity arranged by one of the family : GRANDAD
28-across – Training a vine, note, is simplicity itself : NAIVETE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The casual worker has to move fast! : SCAMPER
2-down – Not decent maybe, but quite happy : CONTENTED
3-down – Military personnel accompanying the first lady magistrate : REEVE
4-down – Exemplary colours? : STANDARDS
5-down – Hesitate to make modest cut : DEMUR
6-down – Firm with a woman in order to beat a problem : CONUNDRUM
7-down – Behind a measure the sovereign’s taken : AFTER
8-down – Pledge to provide a home with listening equipment initially : EARNEST
14-down – To throw money around carelessly proves to have a limit : OVERSPEND
16-down – Track supervision : DIRECTION
17-down – Refuge making no charge – a questionable arrangement : ANCHORAGE
18-down – For coppers in a small band, it’s rough : RASPING
20-down – A permit carried by the runner : ATHLETE
22-down – Get Burlington House a good oil-supplier : COPRA
23-down – Drags up the turf : SWARD
24-down – Work in the Channel Islands producing plants : CACTI

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22820 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22820 clues and answers were published on Fri 02 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22820 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Unusual consul, one involved with Gaul, gets punishment in a body of poets : CALIGULASHORSE
9-across – Looks at message of greeting : REGARDS
10-across – Spherical, topless, like part of the ear : LOBULAR
11-across – Scot embracing me – that’s what I was trying to say : IMEAN
12-across – Blondes Tennyson had his 18 : FAIRWOMEN
13-across – Insecticide of a different ilk in horn : ANTKILLER
14-across – Weight that’s white with spots : OUNCE
15-across – Scores 0, according to report : NICKS
17-across – Upper-class theologian was first to enter prize and got cosily placed : CUDDLEDUP
20-across – The Beckham christening question: O father, O mother, were our characters injured? : WHEREFORE
22-across – See 20 : ROMEO
23-across – See 20 : ARTTHOU
24-across – Lady to sing Bread of Heaven without a note : MADONNA
25-across – Principal keeps soft reeds playing when up against a deadline : PRESSEDFORTIME

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Vitally important neophyte, 16 of the 18 3 : CARDINALNEWMAN
2-down – Support for member on Uncle Tom’s master’s endless way : LEGREST
3-down – See 18 : GERONTIUS
4-down – Lewd student, American, upraising German air : LUSTFUL
5-down – Fighting man takes second right, holding magazine : SOLDIER
6-down – Animal at front of lake : OXBOW
7-down – The only Scotsman to be wise? : SOLOMON
8-down – Given permission to execute debtor – anger apt to erupt : GRANTEDPROBATE
14-down – Fuel merchant badly tailored at end of summer : OILTRADER
16-down – Gold beneath getting louder: take the food I made : CREATOR
17-down – End of the Spanish when French vicar’s about : CLOSURE
18-down – Dying work provides end of good mortuaries : DREAMOF
19-down – Contradiction will drive one crazy : DEMENTI
21-down – Cultural disposition gives point to little sceptic : ETHOS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22819 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22819 clues and answers were published on Thu 01 May 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22819 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Plain, yellow American bird : PRAIRIECHICKEN
8-across – Only rich people can afford the London theatre : LYRIC
9-across – Type of Russian graffiti : CYRILLIC
11-across – One who runs after proposal : NOMINEE
12-across – This pipe doesn’t wind, however : TRACHEA
13-across – Cream from Spain, low in calories : ELITE
15-across – Thrifty people, a feature of the old school set : SLATECLUB
17-across – Lasting effect of blue an’ red blend : ENDURABLE
20-across – Suggestion made by airline once to National Guard : TWANG
21-across – They know nothing about soaring : IGNAROS
23-across – Its colours originated memorably with Richard : RAINBOW
25-across – Rotten pears lie under me : ESPALIER
26-across – Coins that betrayed Iago, originally : SOLDI
27-across – It deals automatically with dirty habits : WASHINGMACHINE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – China in first phase regeneration : PALINGENESIS
2-down – A bumper emptied? I’m full to the top : ABRIM
3-down – Rancour, etc almost spoiled the storyteller : RACONTEUR
4-down – Shuns something that ewes chew sometimes : ESCHEWS
5-down – The Bear provides this simple beverage : HERBTEA
6-down – She surprised Alice : CELIA
7-down – Lamb contains marrow and the last pieces of cell tissue : EPITHELIA
10-down – One of your greens has little English insect : CABBAGEWHITE
14-down – State one’s established in India : INDONESIA
16-down – Foreign! Rex isn’t disturbed by Channel Islands rising : EXTRINSIC
18-down – Good French wine imported – a tower of strength : BASTION
19-down – It helps detect when a murder’s involved : EARDRUM
22-down – The power of each royal is paramount : REACH
24-down – Cooks use this American port no more : BALTI

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22818 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22818 clues and answers were published on Wed 30 Apr 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22818 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Press maintains conductor of weapons inspections unfinished, then be damned : PUBLISH
5-across – Silent revolutionary ruler installed on a colony : BERMUDA
9-across – For the present time, commendation on certificate’s inscribed : NONCE
10-across – French name welcomes Pole at end of three months – one’s unprivileged : NONMEMBER
11-across – Animal coat tailored according to its physique? : ANATOMICAL
12-across – Indian state supreme, if ancient European region declared by Spooner? : WEST
14-across – Hailing English, or hailing a Pole, not English, perhaps : ANGLOPHILIA
18-across – Object to having to wait inside entertaining student – brilliant! : RESPLENDENT
21-across – Indian state stated to find nymphomaniac : GOER
22-across – Encouragement to child having tripped, given soda: so I pay, foolishly : OOPSADAISY
25-across – Standard tipple squandered, one put in neat rum : TABLEWINE
26-across – Belligerent acts from German leader invading a nether region not popular : AGGRO
27-across – Wanting more colour, heading off, about … about to fade : NEEDIER
28-across – Let down by rising a semitone twice? : DEFLATE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Indian state provides double entendre with poke : PUNJAB
2-down – See 12 : BENGAL
3-down – Relentless smashing of Alex O”Brien : INEXORABLE
4-down – Indian may speak in this party without limits : HINDI
5-down – Indian city’s report to US politician not good : BANGALORE
6-down – Stagger to the dance : REEL
7-down – Something ungrammatically spoken between oneself and the heavens? : UMBRELLA
8-down – Indian city causing mix up in West Country river, but not the capital : AMRITSAR
13-down – Happy, perhaps, under his friend’s last name, the star : WHITEDWARF
15-down – Punter, old knackered one, invested in knackered horse, perhaps? : GONDOLIER
16-down – Report to clear up resort : BRIGHTON
17-down – Accomplished botch held up, then put together : ASSEMBLE
19-down – Indian city under the last George and the other assistant : VIAGRA
20-down – Indian city wherefrom setter’s got a rash : MYSORE
23-down – Career sees children pocketing penny : SPEED
24-down – Indian city formerly said to provide food : DELI

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22817 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22817 clues and answers were published on Tue 29 Apr 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22817 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Fred led me, that is understood, into PEPs : GINGERROGERS
8-across – Something to eat and it’s time for a fool to go to bed : APRICOT
9-across – Capital A consumed by body, not E : CARACAS
11-across – Drug taken by disgusting old solver – this looks bad : EVILEYE
12-across – Partisans on hand, or soldiers on foot : PHALANX
13-across – They mark boundaries down : HAHAS
14-across – It’s difficult to find X-rated mishmash of a book : HARDTIMES
16-across – Frequent traveller using The Black Dog : JETSETTER
19-across – … to come back on ‘The Dog : RECUR
21-across – Look at P breaking up the sound of B : INSPECT
23-across – Poison churchman during Omen remake : ENVENOM
24-across – Hang around Virginia, seeking labour : TRAVAIL
25-across – Pro receives one more likely to have been supplied by Del Boy : HOOKIER
26-across – John’s sex drive? : KERBCRAWLING

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Decoration has to take ring off : GARNISH
2-down – Integral part of anagrammatical clue in up-and-coming paper : NUCLEUS
3-down – Jump between European clubs at Derby? : ENTRECHAT
4-down – He steps up to sum up : RECAP
5-down – The Irish law books facing the viewer : GARDANT
6-down – Win back by working miracle : RECLAIM
7-down – Thus does sneak preview? : CASETHEJOINT
10-down – Only the boys’ marks should be raised! : SEXISTREMARK
15-down – Watch this – in the box – Shearer foul that hurt! : RAREESHOW
17-down – Being this, he is leaving the land : TESTATE
18-down – Dearest possession that Mary had, after suffering initial reversal? : EWELAMB
19-down – Italian cases covering over a violin : RAVIOLI
20-down – Means by which to preserve London Town : CANNING
22-down – Is he up to repairs? : TILER

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

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