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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22772 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22772 clues and answers were published on Fri 07 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22772 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Resentment of English earl during exhausting binges : HARDFEELINGS
8-across – Old controller docking a satellite : ORBITER
9-across – Old man’s wonderful promotion : GRANDAD
11-across – Points retinue makes to board : ENTRAIN
12-across – Stumbles outside church – stretches out an arm : TRICEPS
13-across – It is returned by the tenth : TITHE
14-across – Command one in artillery : ORDINANCE
16-across – Quite a few noticed bagging game : SEVENTEEN
19-across – His music’s simple harmonies give away composer : LEHAR
21-across – The universe is losing carbon by diffusion : OSMOSIS
23-across – Allow conservationists into elite organisation : ENTITLE
24-across – Celebrated wealth being invested in hospital department : EMINENT
25-across – It’s spotted having small drink : STIPPLE
26-across – Attend a soldier’s party and make a run for it : BEATARETREAT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Environment Tabitha created : HABITAT
2-down – Artist to pursue struggle for survival : RATRACE
3-down – Flora Dean arranged a dance : FARANDOLE
4-down – Queen contracted fungal disease : ERGOT
5-down – Scotsman protects princess from the Middle East : IRANIAN
6-down – 1 across runs away over fish : GUDGEON
7-down – Stupid reason to test ancient artifact : ROSETTASTONE
10-down – Hearing several trapped in ruin, editor is crestfallen : DISHEARTENED
15-down – Daughter concealed traditional crockery : DINNERSET
17-down – State representative’s passion for seductive woman : VAMPIRE
18-down – New climb shows potential : NASCENT
19-down – Greek infiltrating the French network : LATTICE
20-down – Shot nasty drug in nightclub : HOTSPOT
22-down – Knight accepts thanks for instrument : SITAR

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22771 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22771 clues and answers were published on Thu 06 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22771 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Sink originator : FOUNDER
5-across – Temporary transport from termini : INTERIM
9-across – Its berries are round and red, or round and pale : ROWAN
10-across – United States investments for Rolling Stones : VAGABONDS
11-across – Port people rebuilt on Tees : FOLKESTONE
12-across – Words of a man said to be ambitious with a funny beret and tutu : ETTU
14-across – They could come up on the pools, as it were – ill winds! : WATERLILIES
18-across – I belong to one partner without distinction : IMPARTIALLY
21-across – He wrote about a large weight : ZOLA
22-across – Fundraiser makes mixed drink : JUMBLESALE
25-across – One thousand concert exercises – Martinu’s last composition : IMPROMPTU
26-across – Tobacco for pervert : TWIST
27-across – A resident may be heard, it’s surmised : GUESSED
28-across – Butler’s work before name is revealed – concealing a question of identity : EREWHON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Make a fuss about Robert Owen initially being remote : FAROFF
2-down – One in Spa we shall follow, needing treatment : UNWELL
3-down – Drudgery producing academic chef d’oeuvre? : DONKEYWORK
4-down – Bolt I have inserted in right frame : RIVET
5-down – Mostly at home with Lee, say, or rangin’ about with Lee : INGENERAL
6-down – Craft needed by a member of the orchestra : TUBA
7-down – Call to follow possum … : RINGTAIL
8-down – … a creature no saint must flatten : MUSQUASH
13-down – The air in Cairo’s metropolitan area? : CITYCENTRE
15-down – Putrid : TRICUSPID
16-down – Confusing name for politician – elected head of government : DIZZYING
17-down – Type of bed that’s an American symbol : APPLEPIE
19-down – An attractive person, outwardly like Kierkegaard : DANISH
20-down – Blake’s bell ringer : SEXTON
23-down – See 12 : BRUTE
24-down – Bereavement a second after sunrise : LOSS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22770 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22770 clues and answers were published on Wed 05 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22770 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Plant in a vertical line at back : PLUMBAGO
5-across – Oriental loses lead towards the end : ASTERN
9-across – Find there’s hell to pay for … : DISCOVER
10-across – … Italian port’s hesitation, which Davy did : BARIUM
12-across – Name an American university, which Thatcher derided : NANNY
13-across – W o o z y ? : SPACEDOUT
14-across – Place for Abraham’s issue of old Spiderman comic : PROMISEDLAND
18-across – Playful knockers spread over page one? Time for delay : POSTPONEMENT
21-across – Blender makes a mess of clean home : CHAMELEON
23-across – Crap working month is over : GUANO
24-across – Publication became gentle : MAGGOT
25-across – Spoken in haziness by preachifier : MORALIST
26-across – Spice from the right stone barrel : NUTMEG
27-across – Fools’ gold takes in second one to give an estimate : ASSESSOR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – One overly concerned with appendage for foot soldier? : PEDANT
2-down – Involvement of saboteurs in escape of a bear : URSINE
3-down – Mistake to do up letter bomb, say : BOOBYTRAP
4-down – Musical drill for car mechanic : GREASEMONKEY
6-down – See 12 : STATE
7-down – Pole said to be broken in sections : EPISODAL
8-down – Boss’s griping turned insipid worm : NEMATODE
11-down – Tight religious clothing for a royal simpleton : PARSIMONIOUS
15-down – Put down one jar after study : DENIGRATE
16-down – Small enclosure in which to raise vermin, for example : SPECIMEN
17-down – Food served up to society during grace : ESCARGOT
19-down – Bears with lack of heart decay : CARIES
20-down – Signal heard at 12 for Yankee party : HOOTER
22-down – Run away from people without power? : ELOPE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22769 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22769 clues and answers were published on Tue 04 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22769 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – View to drop work at the back of the 18 : INION
10-across – Doll swallows a large quantity of 26 : BARBITONE
11-across – Superheat boiling water in Asia : EUPHRATES
12-across – General conveyance : GRANT
13-across – Tangle one, perhaps, gets into from such activity : GENITAL
15-across – Direction providing no way without conflict : NORWARD
17-across – Letter conveying resistance to current pressures : OMEGA
18-across – Head teachers : NUT
20-across – Rule out sliced bread : DEBAR
22-across – Pals die wrestling with poisonous snakes : ELAPIDS
25-across – Overtures made by boy to girl? : LEONORA
26-across – Imagine 250,000 sheets : DREAM
27-across – Cows spirit in workers : RUMINANTS
30-across – Put pressure on journalists to drink : PRESSDOWN
31-across – Occasion for dissent? : NONCE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – With this trouble you need a doctor before becoming able to move : BILE
2-down – Writers inside wrongly get hand out : DISPENSE
3-down – Heavy blow upset gambling centre : ONER
4-down – Plate dropped in ablution plant : ABUTILON
5-down – Birdcage : PRISON
6-down – Did Halliwell perform nothing on an instrument? : DIDGERIDOO
7-down – Steer ran over a Mrs Alexander : ROXANA
8-down – Advanced fast : LENT
13-down – Wood of musical fame … : GROVE
14-down – … great music composed by one of 28 : TRAGICMUSE
16-down – Backs along unmade roads : DORSA
19-down – 8 mean different composer : TELEMANN
21-down – Poet’s weapon : BROWNING
23-down – Primate took up 13 across activity – it’s the tops! : APEXES
24-down – Street area in Kent : STROOD
26-down – Perform athletic activities? The fool! : DOPE
28-down – Some men in back of Morris? : NINE
29-down – Detail of undressed kid taken to court : SUED

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22768 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22768 clues and answers were published on Mon 03 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22768 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – A political leader was complimentary and that’s valued : APPRAISED
6-across – Left to fill in, gave voice in inappropriate language : SLANG
9-across – In spring many make economies : SKIMP
10-across – Hint there’s a credibility gap : SUSPICION
11-across – One who’s asked to peer in it may well get upset : PETITIONER
12-across – A word used among master mariners : TERM
14-across – Double-dealing, but aren’t so bad : TREASON
15-across – Reached high to marry, taking in royalty : TOWERED
17-across – Reason for strengthening attachment? : ABSENCE
19-across – The branches overhead : ANTLERS
20-across – Spot for English scout : ESPY
22-across – To put it another way, the letters appear rash : PARAPHRASE
25-across – Only men retreat : MONASTERY
26-across – Compel the dunderhead to split : DRIVE
27-across – A poet’s shillyshallying? : NOYES
28-across – Demanding quality : STERNNESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A bluff, upstanding moralist : AESOP
2-down – Really vain, to be blunt : POINTLESS
3-down – Quite mouthwatering – but gets a pip in by accident : APPETISING
4-down – He wrote of war and special forces with dispatch : SASSOON
5-down – Dispute as daughter is told to go : DISSENT
6-down – Second child’s slip-up : SKID
7-down – Live bear : ABIDE
8-down – Deny a gem’s being reset for the waiting youth : GANYMEDES
13-down – Currently in operation : SWITCHEDON
14-down – Name darts-playing artisan : TRADESMAN
16-down – Look again at cutback in army personnel and secret weapon : REEXAMINE
18-down – They’ll eliminate faltering fool without hesitation : ERASERS
19-down – Break down : ANALYSE
21-down – Article included in wages in the Philippines : PANAY
23-down – A woman, going to extremes, gets flat : EVENS
24-down – One’s repeatedly running water : ISIS

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

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