Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22778 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22778 clues and answers were published on Fri 14 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22778 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Fails to catch girls : MISSES
5-across – Cruel slaughter at service area : MASSACRE
9-across – Hostile state? I’m in one anyhow first! : INIMICAL
10-across – Junction in electricity supply service : MATINS
11-across – Free hand to trace wandering girl : CARTEBLANCHE
13-across – Long-distance call in the shower : HAIL
14-across – Turns round in foreign city and abandons all restraint : RUNSRIOT
17-across – Triumphantly wave cereal bowl : BRANDISH
18-across – Italian magistrate has to follow direction : DOGE
20-across – Wire reins do vary internally quite a lot : CONSIDERABLE
23-across – Class of lungfish in one’s pond for a change : DIPNOI
24-across – One supervising love poetry to Queen : OVERSEER
25-across – Appeal for reconciliation put at risk? : ENDANGER
26-across – Fox led astray by child’s gait : TODDLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – No change in first-class return to island : IONA
3-down – Stop Colin with some fudge : SEMICOLON
4-down – Positive about city being safe : SECURE
5-down – Hide fruit first for use once in Normandy : MULBERRYHARBOUR
6-down – Girl taking doctor in something for making pudding : SEMOLINA
7-down – Historian told to continue performing : ACTON
8-down – Wound at rehearsal : RUNTHROUGH
12-down – Lothario in trouble for oiling the locks : HAIRLOTION
15-down – Remedied by changed attire : REDRESSED
16-down – Fire wood of the sort Erica gets : KINDLING
19-down – Refuse assent in the end : OBJECT
21-down – Shrub raised by girls : SENNA
22-down – Tumbled down hill : FELL

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22777 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22777 clues and answers were published on Thu 13 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22777 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – 9 listener gets boxing result : CAULIFLOWEREAR
9-across – I’ve become strong; I leave off being subhuman : VEGETABLE
10-across – 9 – 0 is comic : BEANO
11-across – Be king of Niger? : REIGN
12-across – 9’s relations reduce the weight of letters : ONIONSKIN
13-across – New start without torment for African pygmy : NEGRILLO
14-across – Left to last, one following the lead of General Jackson : GLENDA
17-across – Boat to be a tug? : LUGGER
19-across – Magician wins experts by love : PROSPERO
22-across – Siren used by locum at locks? : TEMPTRESS
24-across – Negotiate for pleasure : TREAT
25-across – Striking effect of powder reversed after taking drug : ECLAT
26-across – 9s with part of the Cretaceous : GREENSAND
27-across – In which rows are used to doctor sick partner on line : DRILLHUSBANDRY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Writing to explain one who wants to keep a curl of hair : COVERINGLETTER
2-down – Pig and gnu falling out about nothing are in the ascendant : UPGOING
3-down – Concentrated on home numbers -that’s about 5 : INTENSIVE
4-down – Pine to throw money : LOBLOLLY
5-down – The King and I kept by little bird on hill : WREKIN
6-down – Round bird? : ROBIN
7-down – North American, I’m sorry to say, turning up more than half undressed : ALASKAN
8-down – Bloody rude aunt exposed, but not directly : ROUNDABOUTEDLY
15-down – One girl heard with another in Roman province : LUSITANIA
16-down – Capital 9 : BRUSSELS
18-down – A good thriller writer is one who takes risks : GAMBLER
20-down – 26’s colour and time would hold me : EMERALD
21-down – Margin at which delayed things happen : LENGTH
23-down – All volunteers replace one in work : TOTAL

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22776 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22776 clues and answers were published on Wed 12 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22776 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Need an alternative to the Muses, for example : ENNEAD
4-across – Medic admitting abduction of tradesman : DRAPER
9-across – So his Jews haven’t converted? : JEHOVAHSWITNESS
10-across – Catalyst stimulating Fritz’s ultimate enemy : ENZYME
11-across – River on which servicemen absorb points for interpretation : EXEGESIS
12-across – Inverts catch VD? Nonsense : CLAPTRAP
14-across – Difficult time to get aroused : THORNY
15-across – No place for hedonists seeking culture in Bath : SPARTA
18-across – Guru protecting wrecked boat from malicious interference : SABOTAGE
21-across – Bearer of news about the comic relief in Macbeth? : REPORTER
22-across – Have a good time, taking in a show : REVEAL
24-across – Dog is eating a short dog and is being treated accordingly : MUTATISMUTANDIS
25-across – Editorial report on songs : LIEDER
26-across – Vessel, earthbound but posh : CLASSY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Incorruptible Queen’s name amid the raised dead : ETERNAL
2-down – Alternately into hockey and hanky-panky : NOOKY
3-down – A partner reflects: Rugby Union used to be : AMATEUR
5-down – Excellent fellows wearing right clothes : RAIMENT
6-down – Somehow copes with tent at festival : PENTECOST
7-down – Lads’ language : RUSSIAN
8-down – Snake taking shelter when at rest : ASLEEP
13-down – Hold forth about origin of fast puncture : PERFORATE
16-down – Film starting before the last one? : PREQUEL
17-down – Not beginning final journey on horseback, perhaps : ASTRIDE
18-down – Commit minor offence with obnoxious gas rising from backside? : SCRUMP
19-down – Brought up to burgle and thieve heartlessly, winding up here : BORSTAL
20-down – Force to sign with pleasure : GRATIFY
23-down – Locations abandoned by Oriental deity : VENUS

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22775 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22775 clues and answers were published on Tue 11 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22775 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – An environment that’s very limiting for flight or walk : BIRDCAGE
5-across – Nurse makes visit around five with drug : CAVELL
9-across – Unpleasant time in bar – after spinning round, was sick : BROUGHTUP
11-across – It has the like of Polyhymnia mostly in charge? : MUSIC
12-across – Previous PM – popular and modern person pressing claims of polymathy? : MAJORGENERAL
15-across – A team’s seen as an old enemy : AXIS
16-across – Mark time at the beginning? : THEYEARDOT
18-across – Popular Les, flexible and useful in many ways : ALLPURPOSE
19-across – Girl’s demeanour puts Mister Outsider off : ANNE
21-across – Nelson was given about 2,000 in newspaper coverage : COLUMNINCHES
24-across – Fix one gong on to front of DJ : IMBED
25-across – Ineffective as gum without attachments : TOOTHLESS
26-across – The leg properly positioned to receive ball? : ONSIDE
27-across – Make dolly sit in a rather lumpish way? : STOLIDLY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Baseball’s number one American guy? : BABE
2-down – Reason android has no heart : ROOT
3-down – The drink, not half powerful, has vessel capsizing : COGNAC
4-down – What dancing angels would do? Stop waffling! : GETTOTHEPOINT
6-down – Republic’s chaps taken in by heretic : ARMENIAN
7-down – Have food briefly before walking in old part of county : EASTRIDING
8-down – Spots socialite reeling after end of ball : LOCALITIES
10-down – Actress about to lay in bad craft shop : PEGGYASHCROFT
13-down – Cherry makes stain when getting on material : MARASCHINO
14-down – Composer has country house, very large, in which ball is held : VILLALOBOS
17-down – Unfashionable scooter-rider exposed as gay touring round : OUTMODED
20-down – Toxic litre – alcohol, knocking number out : LETHAL
22-down – Saw illiterate children : SEED
23-down – A pitch showing evidence of fire? : ASHY

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22774 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22774 clues and answers were published on Mon 10 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22774 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Sign of distemper being difficult to apply to one’s room : HARDPAD
5-across – Pushing out a helicopter, for example : GUNSHIP
10-across – Port trade : DEAL
11-across – Plays records and is greatly affected : PUTSONAIRS
12-across – Issue a word of thanks for some music : SONATA
13-across – Where barristers practise drinking : ATTHEBAR
14-across – A vow to make both alter : BETROTHAL
16-across – Failure to supply material : CRASH
17-across – Cheat with cards and make a pile : STACK
19-across – Water for a mother pig : ADAMSWINE
23-across – Send off message in haste : DISPATCH
24-across – Bare form of Bunter? : REMOVE
26-across – Boy upset at vandalised tourist attraction : BEAUTYSPOT
27-across – Government measure : RULE
28-across – Possibly rely on clergyman for the festivities : REVELRY
29-across – Is dismissed, but doesn’t go : PLAYSON

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Chemical one keeps in school : ACETONE
3-down – Water at the mouth : DELTA
4-down – Pitch of the roof : ASPHALT
6-down – Turnabouts in vessels : UBOATS
7-down – A guy in the field : SCARECROW
8-down – Hostile incursions into Greek island, say : INROADS
9-down – Make bet, say, with counters on what may be on the menu : STEAKANDCHIPS
15-down – Recovery results in delight round the City : RECAPTURE
18-down – Its crew makes progress on three levels : TRIREME
20-down – Master takes female, over 50, in marriage : MARITAL
21-down – Book to see actor-composer : NOVELLO
22-down – He remains in the running for a long time : STAYER
25-down – Take a wife, forsooth : MARRY

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

Scroll to Top