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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.

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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.

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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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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22784 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22784 clues and answers were published on Fri 21 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22784 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – They fly, like songstresses! : AIRWOMEN
9-across – Love song composed at Rome : AMORET
10-across – Key to the London dogs’ home : ISLE
11-across – By chance, a maverick on the staff : ACCIDENTAL
12-across – It’s put on by a better singer : TREBLE
14-across – Clipped, dishevelled, aged bird : ABRIDGED
15-across – Cage bird : PRISON
17-across – A newscast leading to royal response : ANSWER
20-across – American chap sidles out like a ghost : BODILESS
22-across – Breaker of wild brutes : BUSTER
23-across – Minerva’s original idea? : BRAINCHILD
24-across – Old English district sounds wet : SOKE
25-across – They inhibit British lechers : BRAKES
26-across – Kinsman is no upright descendant : GRANDSON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Camels made use of this dry skin : AIRSTRIP
2-down – Precious clip from Lost Weekend : TWEE
3-down – I’m perched on white stick : IMPALE
4-down – Official kind of collar : MANDARIN
5-down – At Houston they usually lead to nothing : COUNTDOWNS
6-down – Watch out for gathering conflict within : BEWARE
8-down – On Olympus, drink etc ran freely : NECTAR
13-down – Barriers put about one Scottish town where the sheriffs’ men operate : BAILIWICKS
16-down – Extra actors under a cloud! : OVERCAST
18-down – After struggling free, bird makes secure place in the sails : REEFKNOT
19-down – Popping the question royally? : ASKING
21-down – A model with heavenly moving parts : ORRERY
22-down – Rioting blamed for uproar : BEDLAM
24-down – It could be the Left dies out : SIDE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22783 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22783 clues and answers were published on Thu 20 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22783 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Failures the learner dismissed in the recesses : APSES
4-across – Final offers made by university officer to one academic with thanks : ULTIMATA
8-across – Platform announcements? : PUBLICSPEAKING
10-across – Liar they put right in a crude way : EARTHILY
11-across – An artist takes in abandoned ships : ARMADA
12-across – Use endless charity when performing church service : EUCHARIST
15-across – A footballer can be taken thus : ABACK
17-across – Reverse for students, including a society girl : SUSAN
18-across – Darling American goes on dream holiday : HONEYMOON
19-across – Minister backs Brown in old battle : VERDUN
21-across – Hard stuff’s the best for a brick, perhaps : ICECREAM
24-across – Teacher disseminated Latin – a citation’s due! : EDUCATIONALIST
25-across – A much smaller number touring the East for game : FEARLESS
26-across – Less restricted, as eggs can be: the last four being off : FREER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Showing anxiety relating to understanding : APPREHENSIVE
2-down – Takes advance payments to include pamphlet : SUBTRACTS
3-down – Stylish thrash : SWISH
4-down – Kind of NUS files hard to unravel : UNSELFISH
5-down – We hear the side is to come down heavily : TEEM
6-down – Earn money in preparation for printing : MAKEREADY
7-down – Number wearing old garment seen in the South Pacific : TONGA
9-down – One used to avoid getting the ticket : PARKINGMETER
13-down – Broadcaster ran out without part of speech on the Church : ANNOUNCER
14-down – Persistent cautions and police finally move : TENACIOUS
16-down – Simultaneously make good and raise issue : ATONETIME
20-down – Band thrown up in cooler, lacking a leader : RIDGE
22-down – Rag? Worthless stuff! : CHAFF
23-down – Spot of inflammation I saw in speech : STYE

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

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