Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22718 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22718 clues and answers were published on Fri 03 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22718 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

5-across – Saga that features a good woman : AGATHA
6-across – Cure for one asleep in bed : KIPPER
9-across – Shoe tree : SANDAL
10-across – Government providing cheap travel : STEERAGE
11-across – Going for it’s a snip : SONG
12-across – Definite favourite : PARTICULAR
13-across – Collections of a too English design : ANTHOLOGIES
18-across – Large thing spinning in the corner : RIGHTANGLE
21-across – Girl fought over in 23 : ALMA
22-across – Informer who framed his mother? : WHISTLER
23-across – Where 1 and 7 were : CRIMEA
24-across – Flats built in Alps : PLAINS
25-across – Vegetables cut short at Troon : GREENS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Welsh town and cigar blend : CARDIGAN
2-down – Boost announced for Alexander’s father : PHILIP
3-down – Fascinating job for a fixer : RIVETING
4-down – Insight given by newspaper cutting : APERCU
5-down – River warrior : AMAZON
7-down – An overcoat at Lord’s? : RAGLAN
8-down – They get a lot from Leo’s movement : ASTROLOGERS
14-down – He replaced Daniel’s banner : HEADLINE
15-down – Analyst cut back on egg recipe : EXAMINER
16-down – A piece below the arch! : BISHOP
17-down – Hot ashes, missing core of Bessemer process : EMBERS
19-down – Soldier : HUSSAR
20-down – MPs could make up this car : ESCORT

This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22717 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22717 clues and answers were published on Thu 02 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22717 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Retired doctor introducing new deal to asylum : BEDLAM
4-across – Yarn to baffle a lawyer : NOTARY
9-across – Bear losing head in wreckage : RUIN
10-across – A large drink sounds deep : DOUBLEBASS
11-across – Cleave stick : ADHERE
12-across – Tom has to order a little bull for sacrifice : HECATOMB
13-across – Term for a model poet : TRIMESTER
15-across – Foul row : RANK
16-across – Relish something painful : GOUT
17-across – Six-footer takes test in three parts : HEXAMETER
21-across – Donor with top credit rating? : BESTOWER
22-across – He trod the boards formerly in Lancashire : OLDHAM
24-across – Cops nearly failed through not keeping awake : NARCOLEPSY
25-across – William Booth took part in 17 : IAMB
26-across – They troubled Macmillan and Steven : EVENTS
27-across – He was known for an old windbag : AEOLUS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A stone overweight? : BOULDER
2-down – Finished with church, we hear – will he ever learn? : DUNCE
3-down – Direct speech : ADDRESS
5-down – Time has a round face : OCLOCK
6-down – Determine a right to piecework? : ARBITRATE
7-down – Mask : YASHMAK
8-down – Presidential intelligence at work? : BUSHTELEGRAPH
14-down – Hitler’s first cat cavorting with mouse under his very nose : MOUSTACHE
16-down – Danger point when it explodes : GRENADE
18-down – A refusal with little force can be soothing : ANODYNE
19-down – Times review of an old theologian : ERASMUS
20-down – Dim idiot, about 49 : TWILIT
23-down – Doctor gives patients exercise : DRILL

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22715 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22715 clues and answers were published on Tue 31 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22715 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Bigwig with big backing from primate : GIBBON
5-across – The fisherman’s whim : MAGGOT
8-across – The country round follows alternative 1s : ORLANDO
9-across – Winter sports association for 51 bucks, maybe : SKICLUB
11-across – Ignis fatuus for back-packers? : TRAVELLINGLIGHT
12-across – Address to Manx cat by 8 across 1s, maybe : OPUS
13-across – A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable : ADAMANTINE
17-across – Before there’s an upheaval, get a better job : PREFERMENT
18-across – Precious little 12 for others : OPAL
20-across – Change from cad with clot and from 19 1s’ 12 : COLDCOMFORTFARM
23-across – Young creature for hire, always to be taken in : LEVERET
24-across – Nobel prizewinner could be lost in a tabloid : SULSTON
25-across – Waged war determinedly to show 1 : EDWARD
26-across – Literary hero’s drunk : SHANDY

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – All turn – that’s demanded out of spite : ILLNATURE
3-down – I won’t allow you to flag : BANNER
4-down – Pasta with Benedictine in the realm of folly : NOODLEDOM
5-down – Two generations could be free : MASON
6-down – 1s putting a smile on a fish : GRINLING
7-down – POW camp with prisoners’ regulator? : OFLAG
8-down – Heal portico that’s collapsed: is this correctly pronounced? : ORTHOEPICAL
10-down – Drink in Germany – please get the right answer : BITTERLEMON
14-down – Beasts and bird in battle : MONGOOSES
15-down – Heath makes himself known about scheme that wasn’t there at first : IMPLANTED
16-down – Two churches on song: a worm will follow : CERCARIA
19-down – A girl to confess being inside it : STELLA
21-down – Grey cover containing 6 : LIVID
22-down – Matched and dispatched? : MATED

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22714 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22714 clues and answers were published on Mon 30 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22714 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Gather that the bell has gone? : ROUNDUP
5-across – The cad is about to break off the engagement : DETACH
9-across – The point of punctuation : FULLSTOP
10-across – Current charge for what solicitors do : ACCOST
12-across – Ideal sales talk of appeal to music lovers : PERFECTPITCH
15-across – Free fall may be enjoyed by sportsmen : OPENSEASON
17-across – Charming feature of Japanese dress : OBI
19-across – The pitch of the road : TAR
20-across – One may put one’s foot in it; how does one wriggle out? : WOODENSHOE
22-across – Bold break-in using a jemmy? : ENTERPRISING
26-across – Terrible, but not initially loud, stream of abuse : EARFUL
27-across – Get away with a clip round the ear : CLEAROUT
28-across – Finally dispose of most of the relatives? Rot! : KIBOSH
29-across – Poor side away from home fails to survive : DIESOUT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Craft without a prow : RAFT
2-down – Yet such a description may be fair : UGLY
3-down – Do without and give to others : DISPENSE
4-down – Demonstration of spiritual strength : PROOF
6-down – Expect disturbance in bar : EXCEPT
7-down – It indicates I will be missing from Who’s Who : APOSTROPHE
8-down – Thumbs up for a seeker of cheap travel : HITCHHIKER
11-down – Current binder for correspondence : ACCORD
13-down – Hold up close to Cork : BOTTLENECK
14-down – A pop star, perhaps, pulsating with vitality : HEARTTHROB
16-down – A panel on an aircraft, perhaps : ABOARD
18-down – Aunt Enid flounders in swamp : INUNDATE
21-down – Pop’s executors? : GROUPS
23-down – It can’t run, so takes cover : SOLID
24-down – Crazy, maybe, but often with motive : LOCO
25-down – Impressive plea for original expression : STET

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22712 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22712 clues and answers were published on Fri 27 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22712 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Left Group One to feature in commercial : ABANDONED
10-across – One who looks lecherously breaks leg in Oregon : OGLER
11-across – One not known to Heather provides a hint : INKLING
12-across – Like a lengthened skirt, it’s a disappointment : LETDOWN
13-across – Fish to sell, recipe included : TROUT
14-across – Bad sentry failing as a witness : BYSTANDER
16-across – He will free everyone first, causing pandemonium : ALLHELLLETLOOSE
19-across – Better time for cutting down on food of high quality : EXCELLENT
21-across – Rough, but not censored : UNCUT
22-across – Traitors turning to wine marked special : STARRED
23-across – Erasmus used one who, reportedly, needs bodies : MASSEUR
24-across – Scoundrel with an Irish accent first found missing : ROGUE
25-across – Mark subordinate to policy : UNDERLINE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Reformed tart is game to see JP : MAGISTRATE
2-down – Finance allows Kitty to have bread : BANKROLL
3-down – Enthusiast to count: it includes one hundred : ADDICT
4-down – Shooting party members got up to get warm : SNUG
5-down – Incline to keep unemployment benefit for a teenager : ADOLESCENT
6-down – Soccer boot twisted in dive : FOOTBALL
7-down – Type of paste used by salmon daily : ALMOND
8-down – Mother’s mother nearly gets donation : GRAN
14-down – Love letter found with tie in dull box : BILLETDOUX
15-down – Actual sound recorded twice running on sort of tape machine : REELTOREEL
17-down – Elgar composed differently in the finale, when amplified : ENLARGED
18-down – Near to getting praise by instalments : ONCREDIT
20-down – Safekeeping for a warhorse without a tail : CHARGE
21-down – Hesitant superior takes on new nurse : UNSURE
22-down – Cupid got up and, they say, saw red : SORE
23-down – It’s the fashion for a maiden to be attracted to poetry : MODE

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

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