Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22710 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22710 clues and answers were published on Mon 23 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22710 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Trace letter about inhabitant of the dump : VESTIGE
5-across – Insect – call it Eric, initially : TERMITE
10-across – Author of 27 and 7 of the Church, one in opposition carrying cross : FOXE
11-across – Still return thanks to island king in hovel : STATIONARY
12-across – Farrow’s mum’s noxious emission : MIASMA
13-across – Co-ruler sending semi-victorious 6 to the river : TRIUMVIR
14-across – – meals provided control panel : DASHBOARD
16-across – One moving house in no hurry : SNAIL
17-across – Capacious man is out of order : ROOMY
19-across – Mineral in flower after a party : ALABASTER
23-across – Sufficiently matured in spring, though lacking majority : WELLHUNG
24-across – He’s mad as he goes a-Maying : NUTTER
26-across – Is astir, say, unbridled in lust : SATYRIASIS
27-across – Fell about carrying model piece of Scripture : ACTS
28-across – Greek character following old network on inner tubes : BRONCHI
29-across – Sunburst makes hooter hairy : UNSHORN

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Cut up about ear-related fancy goods : EXOTICA
3-down – Performer of no account in Hair : TRESS
4-down – Postage fixed by the police : GESTAPO
6-down – Quarter permitted to draw out : ELICIT
7-down – Memorials bringing a Parisian round in seconds : MONUMENTS
8-down – Salt can one supplies a composer : TARTINI
9-down – Spoil Alpine region with love, getting sense of 10, for example : MARTYROLOGIST
15-down – Welcome fellow catching a song of the mountains : HIMALAYAN
18-down – Performing in opera outdoors : OPENAIR
20-down – Kingsley’s performing – that’s a blessing : BENISON
21-down – One opting for introduction to economics reader : ELECTOR
22-down – Stick out, keeping girl hot for another : JUDITH
25-down – What to do to one in college? : TEACH

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22708 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22708 clues and answers were published on Fri 20 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22708 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Parade The Arsenal across one’s backside? : MILITARY
5-across – See 1 : TATTOO
9-across – Old measure in Burma designed as a shield : UMBRELLA
10-across – Responsibility for attack : CHARGE
12-across – Did he regret tortuous torture? : THIRDDEGREE
15-across – Rage of East End gangsters reported : CRAZE
17-across – Curved feature in dog initially in dog : BOWWINDOW
18-across – Flower given to Mandela’s opening at improper point of release : EXEMPTION
19-across – Not going anywhere yet : STILL
20-across – Paul recited nonsense, seeing double : REDUPLICATE
24-across – Some would say he was a physicist : PLANCK
25-across – Asian pastry contains one leg : FILIPINO
26-across – Phone the doctor: something in the gall bladder : MOBILE
27-across – Separate and set off for the mountains : ESTRANGE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – With Scotsman around, put out by man’s hairy appendages : MOUSTACHES
2-down – Having produced articles about social security, makes things run smoothly : LUBRICATES
3-down – Flower-pot put under pot without flower : TWEED
4-down – Posh car drives very fast with shading devices : ROLLERBLINDS
6-down – Unlimited healthy activity with little muscular movements in running, etc : ATHLETICS
7-down – Recipe for upside down cake : TURN
8-down – See 7 : OVER
11-down – Minor problems caused by putting arm on secretary in delicate areas : GROWINGPAINS
13-down – Proportion in organisation gaining respect : ADMIRATION
14-down – Not quite two and eleven when fixed, holds to a description of Schoenberg’s music : TWELVETONE
16-down – Reverent during miracle working, not deduced by logic : EMPIRICAL
21-down – More wintry when one’s cold? That is right : ICIER
22-down – Plans raised for a meaty product : SPAM
23-down – Hollywood actress’s short dress : GARB

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22707 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22707 clues and answers were published on Thu 19 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22707 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – As is pavillion : MISSPELT
9-across – Lord Greystoke’s company? : APEMEN
10-across – Colleague has a complaint : AGUE
11-across – Lone family chart found with harness : SINGLETREE
12-across – Top one fruit with another : ANANAS
14-across – Lectured by Wilton? : CARPETED
15-across – Port of New Orleans : SALERNO
17-across – More sounding additional, but not at Ascot : MORESCO
20-across – A European capitalist : BERLINER
22-across – Exercises lower bottom with movements : SITUPS
23-across – Fashionable people project glamour at one : GLITTERATI
24-across – The first law of diplomacy : TACT
25-across – Slum it as a kind of test : LITMUS
26-across – Hackman’s class breed : GENERATE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Lady with wolf for a partner : VIRGINIA
2-down – This man is one : ISLE
3-down – Count about eleven ends with South American : CENSUS
4-down – Minority group members hide in chest : ETHNICS
5-down – Jumper knitted from alar wool : WALLEROO
6-down – Clearance of a colony : SETTLEMENT
7-down – Admire a fast rider : REVERE
13-down – Record period taken to finish knitting : NEEDLETIME
16-down – Talk rubbish? On the contrary! : NONSENSE
18-down – Job of keeping lid on a large town : CAPACITY
19-down – Charge call to account : ARRAIGN
21-down – Pastry made for city home : ECLAIR
22-down – Sport of Kings without one, possibly : SKIING
24-down – Wear out tyre, reportedly : TIRE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22706 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22706 clues and answers were published on Wed 18 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22706 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Boxin’ ‘owdydo has a pantomime character : PUNCHINELLO
9-across – Unsettled air plus rebellion : UPRISAL
10-across – Alexander’s place for fellow on the staff : MACEDON
11-across – How many peers should be? Solve clue 10, taking notes : UNELECTED
12-across – The first two hundred painters are capital : ACCRA
13-across – Is common sense un-American? : NOUS
14-across – *Gunner : GRECIANURN
16-across – *Fruit for dog, say : MELANCHOLY
19-across – Feeble devil chasing his tail : LIMP
21-across – An agreement taking English as part of Current Affairs? : ANODE
22-across – Workers left out of joke : PEASANTRY
24-across – Hole for gold provided diamonds : ORIFICE
25-across – Check the flow: it must be reliable : STAUNCH
26-across – *It was spent by King Lear : NIGHTINGALE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Laureate for ever? It can’t be done : PERPETUALMOTION
2-down – Elizabethan writer from first to last beyond the pale? : NASHE
3-down – The case of the canonised queen coming after the break : HOLSTER
4-down – Read up about crazy individual that’s unsettled : NOMADIC
5-down – Sorry to get 24 hours off? : LACKADAY
6-down – Ken : OLDACQUAINTANCE
7-down – *Detail relative to keep inside : AUTUMN
8-down – No use having a home for peacocks? : INVAIN
15-down – Born student embraced by monarch is doing homage : KNEELING
16-down – Catty remark about a party in a field : MEADOW
17-down – Bearer of sword and its handle is about to live quietly : HIPBELT
18-down – Affair where one is embraced by a celebrity : LIAISON
20-down – *Subject of analysis : PSYCHE
23-down – Lizard makes Portuguese explorer lose his head : AGAMA

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22705 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22705 clues and answers were published on Tue 17 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22705 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – In my own country I may have baffled rural peasant! : JEANPAULSARTRE
9-across – Boy with inclination to eat food from Cambridgeshire? : STILTON
10-across – A time I get lost in navigation around foreign town : AVIGNON
11-across – Immigrant is looking both ways across middle of sea : ISSEI
12-across – Old emperor in overlapping desert expedition : RASTAFARI
13-across – Removing Head of State after revolution, rule badly : MISGOVERN
14-across – Staff try to increase score without making declaration : BATON
15-across – Behind the marble facade is city brownish? : TAWNY
17-across – To the advantage of country, sergeant-major shows obsession with correct procedure : FORMALISM
20-across – Astute as one is at bridge with viewers each side : HARDNOSED
22-across – Cold? Not under blanket! : COVER
23-across – Game allowed to be endless – has the ref lost it? : WHISTLE
24-across – Someone who used to live in the USSR won’t want son in a public school : ETONIAN
25-across – Carl’s going out with the dancer – she’s very young and he’s this? : CRADLESNATCHER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Entertaining lady – see me mixing with atheists, getting among believers : JESSIEMATTHEWS
2-down – Different labels giving a lassie a different look : ALIASES
3-down – Legacy from which one gets a cut – 25 quid, about : PATRIMONY
4-down – Upset serviceman loses leader before victory : UNNERVE
5-down – Actress making final appearance that’s no good : SWANSON
6-down – A gentleman getting up to accommodate a foreign lady : RAISA
7-down – Legislation to control activity instigated by letters : RENTACT
8-down – A name – name in certain rime, possibly : ANCIENTMARINER
14-down – Part of the business not allowed to broaden : BRANCHOUT
16-down – Arrow I shot – before the start of rifles? : WARRIOR
17-down – Wide-angled like lens or codpiece? : FISHEYE
18-down – Get hot and bothered about a commie cleric once : REDDEAN
19-down – Arrived before five? Almost three hours later! That’s Rail for you! : INVEIGH
21-down – Just one of the hacks becoming famous? : NOTED

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

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