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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22782 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22782 clues and answers were published on Wed 19 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22782 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Cuckoo brew’s regaled songster : SEDGEWARBLER
8-across – Nice lake drained for rude fellow : PEASANT
9-across – False alarm for one eastern city in America : LARAMIE
11-across – Water supplier, demanding almost a pound, starts to fill empty reservoirs : AQUIFER
12-across – School is counting every second of Xmas breaks : SCHISMS
13-across – Pukka girl’s identification : VALID
14-across – Movement made by an old poet not quite in love : ANDANTINO
16-across – Unusual display of zeal by son – an idle one : LAZYBONES
19-across – Outgoing mail, I assume : POSIT
21-across – Creatures in a horror film: dogs laying siege to central bank : MUTANTS
23-across – Backward Maid of Orleans the French honour : ENNOBLE
24-across – Carving of antlers or of breastbone : STERNAL
25-across – Little woman’s a rebel in school : ACADEMY
26-across – Key displayed by advocate for Houdini, say : ESCAPOLOGIST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Worm pulled up to be devoured by mammal or bird : SEAGULL
2-down – Awkward ward given gruel, perhaps, and made to look small : DWARFED
3-down – Go on stage with Tina Turner to receive guests : ENTERTAIN
4-down – Jumble sale, including spot marker for vehicle parts : AXLES
5-down – A load of old junk he burnt : BURTHEN
6-down – A tree is beginning to topple – one on a volcano : ELMISTI
7-down – State papers bound to be very revealing? : SPEAKVOLUMES
10-down – Wild one, say, with a double you that’s good to look at : EASYONTHEEYE
15-down – Speed trick Radio 1 dropped? Bravo! : DESPERADO
17-down – Instruments seen in the centre of Teheran covered with spots : ZITHERS
18-down – Dickens gets to embrace girl – a stroke of luck! : BONANZA
19-down – After wordplay, poke one’s tongue? : PUNJABI
20-down – National topic : SUBJECT
22-down – Discharge Vietnamese leader in Laos settlement : SALVO

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22781 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22781 clues and answers were published on Tue 18 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22781 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Work at the deed in force : PRACTISE
5-across – Cartoonist exposes female in shock : SCARFE
9-across – Fashionable attitude, for example : INSTANCE
10-across – Othello’s lieutenant catches cold at exotic oasis : CASSIO
12-across – Carol calls for Mum at bedtime : SILENTNIGHT
15-across – Fish cooked as treat : TETRA
17-across – Alien backing of monarch and the Queen : FOREIGNER
18-across – Smooth aspects of Cromwell’s horse : IRONSIDES
19-across – Hero from Spain led Channel Islands revolution : ELCID
20-across – Moneybags gets rough girl in trouble : MILLIONAIRE
24-across – Toy with end of shotgun : TRIFLE
25-across – Seven into one : SEPTETTE
26-across – Smooth when in neutral : GREASY
27-across – Now’s the time to break up bikes on Greek islands : CYCLADES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Shrub is in teapot that’s cracked : POINSETTIA
2-down – Sailor has explanation for forgiveness : ABSOLUTION
3-down – School staff : TRAIN
4-down – Extra cook – No. 2 : SECONDFIDDLE
6-down – I can’t lose accommodation at the seaside : COASTLINE
7-down – Stood up for a flower girl : ROSE
8-down – God of Love is wound up : EROS
11-down – Violently mix liver and eggs, say : AGGRESSIVELY
13-down – Not prepared to spray prince with dust : UNSCRIPTED
14-down – It’s not easy to cross an English poet embracing the French : BRIDGELESS
16-down – Meets bewildered males with Bess : ASSEMBLES
21-down – Birth of a National and a Liberal : NATAL
22-down – Saint Mark is not for women : STAG
23-down – Have supper with Miss Blyton on her return : DINE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22780 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22780 clues and answers were published on Mon 17 Mar 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22780 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Advice on clues in anagram form : COUNSEL
5-across – Barker is a fool to back the outsider : BASSET
9-across – Stumbling upon clue for disconnect : UNCOUPLE
10-across – Contract provided by psychiatrist : SHRINK
12-across – Announcement from the Roman Capitol : PROCLAMATION
15-across – Friends turn up to dinner – an ample feast! : SLAPUPMEAL
17-across – Set fire to sleeping accommodation in Paris : LIT
19-across – Typical measures current in Germany : EMS
20-across – It”s not bound to sell : SHEETMUSIC
22-across – Of Peruvian ancestry? Brilliant! : INCANDESCENT
26-across – Being rich, packed it in : LOADED
27-across – It fully inspires the love of children : CUPBOARD
28-across – Turned key and pulled : YANKED
29-across – It was a stronghold of Communism : KREMLIN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A decisive point made by criminals in speech : CRUX
2-down – Union leaders firm – that’s great for the Scots : UNCO
3-down – Settle, or prepare to fight? : SQUAREUP
4-down – Shrub, one that’s in rising demand : LILAC
6-down – Partly pebbledash large piece of masonry : ASHLAR
7-down – Doing without strong drink – it’s discouraged : SPIRITLESS
8-down – Pay attention, or get warning of dismissal : TAKENOTICE
11-down – Walton’s deceptive appearance : FACADE
13-down – First of all, pieces are set out by partner : ESPECIALLY
14-down – A succession of small bloomers : DAISYCHAIN
16-down – Composer from Harlem : MAHLER
18-down – Willing scholar comes up to help : AMENABLE
21-down – Suddenly expire, having snuffed it? : SNEEZE
23-down – Fill cracks with filler or stopper, say : CAULK
24-down – Sphere of the dance? : BALL
25-down – Party rising in power in old Scandinavia : ODIN

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

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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.

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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.

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