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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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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22766 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22766 clues and answers were published on Fri 28 Feb 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22766 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Cover for root without its top : BERET
4-across – The poet with the gravy : BROWNING
8-across – Run a novel audit producing assessment that’s too low : UNDERVALUATION
10-across – Melodious piece of English used in Peterborough, formerly : SONGLIKE
11-across – Glorious day for gilded youth : JUNIOR
12-across – Organ adapted by reversing tube – till it squeaks? : ORANGEPIP
15-across – Divine seen in windows etc : DOWSE
17-across – Equipment for partners in the Copper Belt : KITWE
18-across – Fiddling about with money – two sovereigns involved : TINKERING
19-across – Parliament success: what about Mr Coe? Negative : NASEBY
21-across – County changed date with support of the rest : BEDSTEAD
24-across – A match with new foe in ’80s film – no problem at all with this : GREATESTOFEASE
25-across – Leave codlin out for sovereign? : GOLDCOIN
26-across – Trophy we lost like men : ASHES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Bookish lady’s book – draw short sword on family in it : BLUESTOCKING
2-down – Unemployed and unrated and with no opening – terrible : REDUNDANT
3-down – Greenhorn left in mountainous region : TYROL
4-down – Where accidents are affecting the roses : BLACKSPOT
5-down – Piece soup? : OPUS
6-down – Crazy on a nude, awfully sweet : NUTSUNDAE
7-down – Girl I complain about : NAOMI
9-down – Scrambled eggs endorsed for firefighter : GREENGODDESS
13-down – Old man finds water bird slightly involved with detectives : GREYBEARD
14-down – No long journey on little drink comes up for detective : PINKERTON
16-down – A little bit was – what did you say about it? – total defeat? : WHITEWASH
20-down – Cats or dogs have been muted : SORDO
22-down – Capital setter in resting place : SOFIA
23-down – Produce another version of the colour of 2, with love : REDO

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22765 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22765 clues and answers were published on Thu 27 Feb 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22765 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – 14 with a month for holidays : AUGUSTINE
8-across – Soldier climbs back into vehicle for a smoke : CIGAR
9-across – One breaking the surface is more alarming, if included : SCARIFIER
10-across – President may be found here daily about one : CHAIR
12-across – 14’s place of worship : TEMPLE
13-across – A sorter’s sorted, being a woman of her word : ORATRESS
14-across – He gives leads to church and nation, though ultimate authority’s royal : CANTUAR
17-across – A reason for being stranded : AGROUND
20-across – 14 discovering God’s name for himself in testaments : WILLIAMS
22-across – Goodbye and good health! Thanks! : CHEERS
24-across – Distress call on the radio : WRING
25-across – Bill’s no amateur lightweight : PROGRAMME
26-across – 14 does worry for the unknown : CAREY
27-across – One curiously vets bail cases : ABLATIVES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – 14 can manage church without one : RUNCIE
2-down – Into which, by analogy, a gallon won’t go : QUARTPOT
3-down – Suppress mounting attacks on the French : STIFLE
4-down – Begin with the gut : ENTERON
5-down – 14 with angle on the Queen : FISHER
6-down – 14 Solomon? : DAVIDSON
11-down – 14 with only half a tongue : LANG
15-down – A religious heretic involved with making honey : APIARIAN
16-down – A mother for a motherless man : ADAM
18-down – English apricot crumble can be overdone : OPERATIC
19-down – An old writer’s attribute : ASCRIBE
21-down – Ten – nil rout gets the bird : LINNET
22-down – 14’s horse with commanding general up : COGGAN
23-down – 14’s hectic year, involving writing : RAMSEY

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

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