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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22724 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22724 clues and answers were published on Fri 10 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22724 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Person of mixed race wanting to feature in Cummings’ copy : EMULATE
5-across – One supplying backing, born to lend a hand : BASSIST
10-across – Wear for battle : FRAY
11-across – Form of novel – early one with post involved : EPISTOLARY
12-across – One in store takes salt : SAILOR
13-across – Hugging serpent in embrace : CLASPING
14-across – Outfitter supplying more comfort about the belly : COSTUMIER
16-across – Foxy lady’s early night starts after 5 to 9 : VIXEN
17-across – Hold forth, getting odds miscalculated : SPOUT
19-across – Plant, say, with worker among the ancestry : EGLANTINE
23-across – Time to launch attack on spillage of Ruhr ooze : ZEROHOUR
24-across – Some grain on the scrubland railway : BUSHEL
26-across – Drive crazy, drinking wine in carriage : DEPORTMENT
27-across – List percussion effect : ROLL
28-across – Do something different with cold celery : RECYCLE
29-across – Daring to put ship’s front and plane’s tail on ship : PROWESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – King hastened to interrupt revolutionary convert : MARRANO
3-down – Look up song that’s true : LOYAL
4-down – Proposition others about mineral source : THEOREM
6-down – Off course like platter : ASTRAY
7-down – Drunk skirting edges is a self-sufficient type : SOLIPSIST
8-down – Singular way to ramble : STRANGE
9-down – Knot concealing yen to prepare to defend allotment : KITCHENGARDEN
15-down – Tense third-generation Scot holding record for redundancy : TAUTOLOGY
18-down – Lead many into deeper trouble : PRECEDE
20-down – Umpire arranged to eat snack : ARBITER
21-down – Virtually redundant indicators : NEEDLES
22-down – Article left beneath left entrance : PORTAL
25-down – Extort from S8 : SCREW

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22723 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22723 clues and answers were published on Thu 09 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22723 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – One rejecting old coin : DENIER
5-across – Fabric of legal importance : MATERIAL
9-across – Wild animal read about in port, perhaps : PREDATOR
10-across – Fashionable friend doing time? : INMATE
11-across – Making sure of ecclesiastical rite : CONFIRMATION
13-across – Bird getting in a twist : KNOT
14-across – Nervous structure of team with celebrity : GANGLION
17-across – The golfer’s problem? : HANDICAP
18-across – Taken in by famous editor : USED
20-across – Thought seriously about ten Cretan cod : CONCENTRATED
23-across – Aim straight : DIRECT
24-across – Pinter play I would see without fear : INTREPID
25-across – Abandon plane! is not, perhaps, necessary : JETTISON
26-across – Relative is up to rest being broken : SISTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Part of these isles reflected in their eyes : EIRE
3-down – Showed cad tied in knots : INDICATED
4-down – Status of a sailor : RATING
5-down – Union taking share of dowry : MARRIAGEPORTION
6-down – Adjusting balance with extra decoration : TRIMMING
7-down – Watch over instructions : REMIT
8-down – Stargazer or moon-starer, possibly : ASTRONOMER
12-down – Arouse opposition, if one’s a giant on the move : ANTAGONISE
15-down – A novice getting up to strip for the washerwoman : LAUNDRESS
16-down – One’s admitting turning into flowers : ACONITES
19-down – Sets out for America : STATES
21-down – Many take a break at the summit : CREST
22-down – Could possibly, we hear, make a small contribution : MITE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22722 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22722 clues and answers were published on Wed 08 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22722 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – What _____ and What _____ next – a 21 16 across : KATYDID
5-across – See 10 : FRAICHE
9-across – A vile sect makes a verbal 22 : CESTLAVIE
10-across – 11 end of 4 gives me fair play in the nursery : CREME
11-across – Point on which the Guardian’s embittered : SOUR
12-across – How much in an Eastern Catholic is having one rib? : UNICOSTATE
14-across – Doctor the water to find a lizard : MOLOCH
15-across – Bond in a singular garment is a sick man : PATIENT
16-across – Actor Anthony is without work; page the customer : SHOPPER
18-across – A scrubber : LOOFAH
20-across – Want right to hold property about a century, which includes the sewers : NEEDLECASE
21-across – See 24 : GRAS
24-across – Feast like artists in a heavenly body : MARDI
25-across – He’s bad either way, right? : EVILLIVER
26-across – Old-time vacation, standard form of 10 included : NONTERM
27-across – Joke about the box on the table? : GATELEG

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The excitement of the beautiful game : KICKS
2-down – Broken toe : TESTUDO
3-down – Man’s follower, best between 10 and 10 : DELA
4-down – Cornish Eve, flighty in fancy, takes neighbour’s product : DEVONSHIRECREAM
5-down – 9, 10 5 across, and 24 21’s language needing refinement? You can do it on the table : FRENCHPOLISHING
6-down – Charge copyright to America in case : ACCUSATION
7-down – Make round number burn : CREMATE
8-down – It was there : EVEREST
13-down – Dreadful slump in voice production that can’t be helped? : COMPULSIVE
16-down – Typically happy adult who puts children to sleep : SANDMAN
17-down – Elements of cricket go too far : OVERRUN
19-down – Coming of one of three, it is said : ARRIVAL
22-down – Don’t talk to the carpet, it shows you don’t care : SHRUG
23-down – The fool in 4 : CLOT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22721 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22721 clues and answers were published on Tue 07 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22721 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Game played in Animal Farm? : PIGINTHEMIDDLE
8-across – Post Office missed out of guide to Bury : INTER
9-across – Confused dame in a right pickle : MARINADE
11-across – Aunt with one unusual car cover : TONNEAU
12-across – If you’re in yours, it’s bliss! : ELEMENT
13-across – Some probe literature for old manuscript marks : OBELI
15-across – Drop off wrong goose pelt : GOTOSLEEP
17-across – Confuse old boy’s pet, caught by explosive device : OBFUSCATE
20-across – Stick and stay in the middle : BATON
21-across – Greek character’s explicit description of weapon : NUCLEAR
23-across – As a matter of fact, possibly hurt following international : INTRUTH
25-across – Man, we hear, in the round – an islander : FILIPINO
26-across – Leaving the state of the ground : GOING
27-across – Condition to be met by a space traveller : WEIGHTLESSNESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Steeplechase jockey in t-top option : POINTTOPOINT
2-down – Board to make progress : GETON
3-down – Manage to come up with set places for the youngsters : NURSERIES
4-down – Doctor wearing rough-woven headgear : HOMBURG
5-down – Ornament getting additional endless damage : MORDENT
6-down – Thick wooded valley around the point : DENSE
7-down – Porter’s room intended, say, for deposit of monies : LODGEMENT
10-down – Hurry up tramp with the fuel : STEPONTHEGAS
14-down – Telling the result I have : EFFECTIVE
16-down – Deliberately destroys footwear over a long period : SABOTAGES
18-down – One is taken up in this rescue operation : AIRLIFT
19-down – Editor initially poised, perhaps, for an incident : EPISODE
22-down – Looking, for example, round a basic principle of Chinese philosophy : EYING
24-down – Join in the fun? I tend to! : UNITE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22720 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22720 clues and answers were published on Mon 06 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22720 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Signed contract wearing a false smile? : INDENTURE
10-across – Current rock player : ACTOR
11-across – Building uninsured, if I cease to provide cover : EDIFICE
12-across – Eastern politician bound to be discharged : EMPTIED
13-across – Drinking bender : ELBOW
14-across – Transport climbed upon for personal advancement : BANDWAGON
16-across – Literally the result of condensation : ABRIDGEDVERSION
19-across – Quiet sort of arboreal animal : POLARBEAR
21-across – Trembling on account of going to prison : ASPEN
22-across – Gain from the elimination of crime : CLEANUP
23-across – Settle the will : RESOLVE
24-across – Burn a mark on a horse : BLAZE
25-across – Stones are fashioned for rings : RESONATES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Military assistant has crazy idea to abscond : AIDEDECAMP
2-down – Actor who hasn’t rehearsed his lines? : ADLIBBER
3-down – I’ve now become available for inspection : ONVIEW
4-down – Third power block : CUBE
5-down – Certainly not a form of credit : NEVERNEVER
6-down – Human resource target for Women’s Lib : MANPOWER
7-down – Train racehorses : STRING
8-down – First sign of rust in rotten nail : BRAD
14-down – They profit from their workers’ operations : BEEKEEPERS
15-down – Straightforward refusal to join production of Lear : NONONSENSE
17-down – Not all there when called into action : DERANGED
18-down – Insolent little devil to lie when in trouble : IMPOLITE
20-down – General means to establish latitude : LEEWAY
21-down – Approve a head’s elevation before time : ASSENT
22-down – Corn for horses : COBS
23-down – It can be used in billiards break : REST

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

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