Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22704 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22704 clues and answers were published on Mon 16 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22704 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Falsely accused by FBI man about crash : FRAMED
4-across – Stick around at home like a dog : CANINE
9-across – Nymph who faded away normally comes back : ECHO
10-across – Fruit served by sergeant in mess : TANGERINES
11-across – Georgia admits relationship with Russian composer : GLINKA
12-across – Only men go in at such a meeting : ABUTMENT
13-across – A witness taking no part in the proceedings : BYSTANDER
15-across – The others coming from Latin and elsewhere : ETAL
16-across – Realise it’s a trick : SELL
17-across – Raise cost somehow, or get cut off : OSTRACISE
21-across – Delightful tea served with best china : CHARMING
22-across – Fragile copy : FLIMSY
24-across – Instrument requiring twice as much sound foundation : DOUBLEBASS
25-across – Country artist with an outstanding level of intelligence : IRAQ
26-across – Make a mistake and throw out the drink : SHERRY
27-across – Hit on an advertising catch phrase : SLOGAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Head of chemistry in wrong university department : FACULTY
2-down – A grain found in oak : ACORN
3-down – Net adjustment by water board : ENTRAIN
5-down – May it be described as a trunk road? : AVENUE
6-down – Crazy about Mum, in a manner of speaking : IDIOMATIC
7-down – Point learnt afresh, always to be remembered : ETERNAL
8-down – Diamond ring indicating one is unobtainable? : ENGAGEDSIGNAL
14-down – It’s only fair the board should accept new role : TOLERABLE
16-down – Teaches fishes swimming : SCHOOLS
18-down – Denial of a fault in the show ring : REFUSAL
19-down – Keep us up to the mark : SUSTAIN
20-down – Second mate in ship of the line : LINEAR
23-down – A piece of cake? But not to a pilot’s liking : ICING

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22702 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22702 clues and answers were published on Fri 13 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22702 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Bird taken out to lunch? : CUCKOO
6-across – Put up with what may be hard or cold : SHOULDER
9-across – Little time this time, a waste of time if caught? : MINNOW
10-across – Black person’s style in broadcast by waves? : SEAFRONT
11-across – Albert Steptoe – might I be told I’m randy? : DIRTYOLDMAN
15-across – Women bath us in a lather where clothes should be done : WASHTUB
17-across – Concubine offering fruit : SULTANA
18-across – As if by magic, bounder finds something to unfasten either side of him : ABRACADABRA
22-across – Fruit containing smashed mineral : GRAPHITE
23-across – Horse, non-starter, eating cold fruit : QUINCE
24-across – Application of light, result of flashing? : EXPOSURE
25-across – Fluid – a sample endlessly being circulated : PLASMA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Settlement: yours initially : COLONY
2-down – Use them in composition, so it’s notepaper : SHEETMUSIC
3-down – Having taken drugs, swimmer’s assistant is in a state for the sporting climax : CUPFINAL
4-down – 7 Paul Jones’ partner into scam : COMEDOWN
5-down – Liberal Democrat money goes to the right first : CENTRIST
7-down – A taste of relegation : DROP
8-down – Give a rocket speed : RATE
12-down – Wherein litmus may be a choice between red and blue? : LABORATORY
13-down – Swab soiled by somebody’s surgeon : SAWBONES
14-down – Dance with goddess around a bar : HABANERA
16-down – Leaves from here with trains on time : TEACHEST
19-down – Social security in social security : DOUBLE
20-down – Ill defined? Ill-defined a non-starter : AGUE
21-down – Temporary settlement affected : CAMP

This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22701 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22701 clues and answers were published on Thu 12 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22701 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Craft’s able to bridge a river : CATAMARAN
6-across – Shred of straw is paltry : WISP
10-across – It’s heads on American quarter and tails on thieves’ dog : LATIN
11-across – Spiny lobster becomes gelatinous without one : LANGOUSTE
12-across – First two swapped neckwear : BANDANA
13-across – Genuine problem for naive girl : INGENUE
14-across – To notice where chip can finish dish : TOADINTHEHOLE
17-across – Substitute for something binding in declaration : PRONOUNCEMENT
21-across – Take off a couple without it : IMITATE
22-across – Pain of my queenless country : MYALGIA
24-across – To jeer about prompting is conventional : BOURGEOIS
25-across – Still fit in less seconds : INERT
26-across – One stringing a line : TIER
27-across – Gut reaction : DYSENTERY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Single-minded? : CELIBATE
2-down – In retrospect, it answers the big one : TITAN
3-down – Thousand, plus one number, put in order for fruit : MANDARINORANGE
4-down – Trusting in later development : RELIANT
5-down – Civet cat lives and is protected : NANDINE
7-down – Elected because half were faked : INSINCERE
8-down – Like more money to pass on : PREFER
9-down – Cleaning room to sort out jumble : CONGLOMERATION
15-down – Well ground in hearing range : AMPLITUDE
16-down – Swipe your old underhand : STEALTHY
18-down – Once a pen : ONEFOLD
19-down – Literally any one in state’s downfall : NEMESIS
20-down – Place for hanging up large stake : GIBBET
23-down – Iceberg holds back diver : GREBE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22700 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22700 clues and answers were published on Wed 11 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22700 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Set sailor free : ABSOLUTE
5-across – Rough butcher has no time for baby-faced child : CHERUB
9-across – Acorn set to become start of tree : ANCESTOR
10-across – Country where I’m a lawbreaker? : MALAWI
11-across – Cool, pale source of illumination : FANLIGHT
12-across – Girl almost has a leg in each side : ASTRID
14-across – Birds nesting in some high places : PARTRIDGES
18-across – Bringing up workers in a religious environment : APICULTURE
22-across – Italian city in a police state : NAPOLI
23-across – American whose job is on the line : ENGINEER
24-across – Italian setting for gentlemen lovers : VERONA
25-across – The main threat to Venice: mad raid by heartless Greek : ADRIATIC
26-across – Ulster in turmoil for five years : LUSTRE
27-across – Islands more or less in the Caribbean : ANTILLES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A duchess’s place at Italian resort : AMALFI
2-down – One who got the silver back : SECOND
3-down – Girl told to come home : LASSIE
4-down – Eat hotpots rehashed – then use this : TOOTHPASTE
6-down – Top post! It’s the Admiral’s : HEADSHIP
7-down – Mad behaviour of people on the way : ROADRAGE
8-down – Drinking song sung on the 25? : BRINDISI
13-down – Old reptile flying near to pond : PTERANODON
15-down – Notting Hill’s, perhaps, can rival Rio’s : CARNIVAL
16-down – Place of ups and downs for the traveller : AIRPORTS
17-down – Joyce was one name on ship : DUBLINER
19-down – State car used by Italian resort : RIMINI
20-down – Bats in strange lament : MENTAL
21-down – They’re ruined!, said the King : WRECKS

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22699 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22699 clues and answers were published on Tue 10 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22699 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Jazz legend’s hit with Apple Girl : GRAPPELLI
6-across – Society for high scoring marbles contenders : MENSA
9-across – Its flowers cluster among chrysanthemum, belladonna etc : UMBEL
10-across – None dying badly without doubt, there’s _____ : NODENYING
11-across – Hidden faults among Ali’s supporters? : FEETOFCLAY
12-across – Prime minister said to be candid : PEEL
14-across – Peter James’s valet and sometime chamber body : QUINTET
15-across – Old Left in a live broadcast: such should aid their aspirations… : ALVEOLI
17-across – … and are Old Left taking a bearing in pinkish circles? : AREOLAE
19-across – Right to fail in British school’s Russian course : BORTSCH
20-across – Bearing slash from sword : EPEE
22-across – One’s in the field to put Eton’s opponents on hold : RESTHARROW
25-across – Flame cutting into the moutarde? : INAMORATO
26-across – Woods burning with fearful symmetry? : TIGER
27-across – AA member on line, perhaps? : MILNE
28-across – They stick to nasty head wounds : ADHERENTS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Good collar for these billy goats? : GRUFF
2-down – That is Bedlam’s version of a Lakeland bottleneck : AMBLESIDE
3-down – Discussion between sessions of Congress? : PILLOWTALK
4-down – Monks’ brethren on the Italian rise in relief work : LINOCUT
5-down – The state of Jones, at home with Artemis in Rome : INDIANA
6-down – Many in port cut some ice by telekenesis : MIND
7-down – Simple northern welcome welcoming one : NAIVE
8-down – English FA members getting one in the net : ANGELFISH
13-down – See 6 : OVERMATTER
14-down – Fox’s way to question ‘is maker, possibly : QUAKERISM
16-down – Good testosterone, but no trial to discern her response to it! : OESTROGEN
18-down – Athene on rising takes morning for hot flushes : ENEMATA
19-down – The little woman’s going out with trash: give her a ring! : BETROTH
21-down – Message from Gallagher: ‘e’s making a comeback! : EMAIL
23-down – Invertebrates’ diet : WORMS
24-down – Successive notes from Gustave : DORE

This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.

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