Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22740 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22740 clues and answers were published on Wed 29 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22740 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – How much to turn bird to drink before a dress show? : COSTUME
5-across – See 19 : ZHIVAGO
9-across – See 1 : DRAMA
10-across – Most eggs, prepared for cooking outside, must be moved like coal : SHOVELLED
11-across – Shrub male god put in most of Channel Island : ALDERBUCKTHORN
13-across – Amphibian, original model : NEWT
14-across – Old soldier with oriental weapon in range : SPEARMAN
17-across – Where Charles got hiding after hiding out of Paddington? : ROYALOAK
18-across – King by birth is bent : KNEE
21-across – Glorious revolutionary conferring with old ape in trouble : PRINCEOFORANGE
23-across – Change art and end art – it will slow down : RETARDANT
24-across – Proposer’s words, saying he’s got little time inside : IMOVE
25-across – See 20 : DERONDA
26-across – List for cleaner joining her ring : ROLLMOP

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Give up what sounds fruitful : CEDE
2-down – Cannibalistic address to bird by Swinburne? : SWALLOWMYSISTER
3-down – Habits of high caste prophets : USAGES
4-down – No problem about consumption near Skipton : EASTBY
5-down – Delusion suggesting cloned animal on public view? : ZOOSCOPY
6-down – Tile battered with rain, resisting change? : INERTIAL
7-down – OM : ALLDOOMANDGLOOM
8-down – Rules can change after row interrupts Rose Turner : ORDINANCES
12-down – Napper getting rude awakening if caught at it? : UNPREPARED
15-down – Vote for Reagan is very small : ELECTRON
16-down – Hat conceals gold from view : PANORAMA
19-down – Month before last at hour 4, in derogatory Latin 1across 9 : DOCTOR
20-down – Ulster church officer gets on in nihilistic movement in 1across 9 : DANIEL
22-down – Assist man with record : HELP

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22739 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22739 clues and answers were published on Tue 28 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22739 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Dad … ? : POPTHEQUESTION
9-across – Casually induct into ecstasy with glee : JOCUNDITY
10-across – Mire that is under coach? : BOGIE
11-across – Two notes said to be substantial : MEATY
12-across – Legend on king providing shelter for best friend : DOGKENNEL
13-across – Modern lines to 14th century in Italy : TRECENTO
14-across – Ship cargo back in river craft : PEDALO
17-across – Haggard band returned to the front : ONWARD
19-across – Captive that’s enlisted, not with a rebuke but with clout : POWERFUL
22-across – Eggs can be fliers, too : SCRAMBLED
24-across – Bobby in Ireland’s a drawback? : GARDA
25-across – King captures the French with ease : RELAX
26-across – As a friend put down: Inherently, there’s no way to strike out : QUAKERISH
27-across – Man leading on points : PREMIERDANSEUR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Topless in bed – so what might be on? : PYJAMATROUSERS
2-down – Kind of deal that can be wrapped up : PACKAGE
3-down – Arboreal creature’s hard one to get born in twelve months : HONEYBEAR
4-down – Hair-splitting for GBP1, having sung song : QUIDDITY
5-down – Groyne provides cover for shore plant : ERYNGO
6-down – Spread rumour about bishop : TABLE
7-down – Instrument to last with a material : ORGANZA
8-down – Wildly appropriate in Cockney alphabet : HELLFORLEATHER
15-down – Still valid, if Cluedo suspect lacks beginning and end : EVERGREEN
16-down – Download is corrupted in part of the country : WOODLAND
18-down – Singer in conflict with band, say : WARBLER
20-down – ‘Armed in 5, like a thief : FURTIVE
21-down – Level of wit in this group : CLIQUE
23-down – Inventor of the saw? : MAXIM

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22738 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22738 clues and answers were published on Mon 27 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22738 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Batted first without result, lacking boundaries : OPENENDED
10-across – Sound of a stable hinge breaking : NEIGH
11-across – Possibly see unit as part of another unit : ENSUITE
12-across – Sense men gain after conversion : MEANING
13-across – Thought a pupil perfect : IDEAL
14-across – Such actions are rarely offensive : REARGUARD
16-across – Not all the cases they carry have to be opened : HOSPITALPORTERS
19-across – Note golf score: adequate but may be improved : REPARABLE
21-across – It is scored for players, not by them : MUSIC
22-across – A ship has, for example, first-rate missile : ASSEGAI
23-across – Fruit and nut, alas, all mixed up together : SULTANA
24-across – Appearing upright before being taken to court : ERECT
25-across – Explosive set on fire : GELIGNITE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Seductive summons? : COMEHITHER
2-down – Reconsider about seas breaking over the ship : REASSESS
3-down – Rejection upset Daniel : DENIAL
4-down – Slack return in fielding : IDLE
5-down – Presentation of papa’s medal brings a lump to one’s throat : ADAMSAPPLE
6-down – What peacemakers try to do is put at risk : ENDANGER
7-down – A short dress. mother, to say the least! : MINIMA
8-down – He’s rough. tough, loveless, confused : THUG
14-down – Spanner used by motorists : ROADBRIDGE
15-down – Soils from broken seed boxes : DESECRATES
17-down – Angry when equipment is dropped in water : IRRIGATE
18-down – City still on cloud nine : ECSTATIC
20-down – Went by, like the buck : PASSED
21-down – Defame a large number and get into a row : MALIGN
22-down – Egg on a steak, say : ABET
23-down – Initially supplied second-hand, now disposed of : SOLD

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22736 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22736 clues and answers were published on Fri 24 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22736 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Like a reporter : CORRESPONDENT
10-across – Crafted canes made by a Syrian : DAMASCENE
11-across – Israel almost made accommodation with Arabs : SERAI
12-across – Time is not on one’s side : ENEMY
13-across – Jackson’s advice to the batsman? : STONEWALL
14-across – Unreliable rat with nose for disloyalty : TREASON
16-across – Fruit served in the harem : SULTANA
18-across – Sixtus’s chapel, first without Latin circumscription : SISTINE
20-across – Heard on a charge once put in writing : INDITED
21-across – Dangerous place where eggs are laid : MINEFIELD
23-across – Quiet introduction to a theological student : SOFTA
24-across – Woman I sigh over : NAOMI
25-across – Specialised kind of college : TECHNICAL
26-across – Eliza Doolittle’s refined arts? : HERTFORDSHIRE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Currently, they show resistance : OHMMETERS
3-down – Unusually sturdy daughter dropped out of practice : RUSTY
4-down – Family man working after flight : STEPSON
5-down – Oppressive part assigned to Nero, usually : ONEROUS
6-down – Melted away! Gone! About time! : DISPELLED
7-down – Roman comic opera : NORMA
8-down – Cockney possessed what’s used to sell : ADVERTISEMENT
9-down – Where cannons are made in-house : BILLIARDTABLE
15-down – Scrooge’s family in south Welsh town : SKINFLINT
17-down – A terrific construction worker : ARTIFICER
19-down – The one chosen has run out of plate : ELECTRO
20-down – Speeded up delivery : INDUCED
22-down – Loop is raised soon on end of flagpole : NOOSE
23-down – Five heard at the same time : SYNCH

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22735 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22735 clues and answers were published on Thu 23 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22735 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Weariness of heroic canine receiving incomplete tax return : LASSITUDE
10-across – Force that’s binding politician to student : IMPEL
11-across – 5 dropped from mad relative’s workroom : ATELIER
12-across – Charge fish with emotion : FEELING
13-across – Rastafarian’s big number : ARIA
14-across – Caustic Aussie not wholly captivated by rep : ASTRINGENT
16-across – Unhealthy reaction to some work admitted by brother in arms : ALLERGY
17-across – Trick involving simple means of ascent – climbers use it : CRAMPON
19-across – Poet on heroin gets cable: It’s a plant! : HELIOTROPE
22-across – Where to put up with provocative remarks : DIGS
24-across – Encouraged Murphy to take back stray : SPURRED
25-across – Origins of terrific hubbub below and terrific hubbub above : THUNDER
26-across – King occupying throne with a grub : LARVA
27-across – Feature with 9 metal components : LINEAMENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – All set, having been given a nice wash, perhaps : CLEANASAWHISTLE
2-down – Unique observation about the City : ESPECIAL
3-down – A number show enthusiasm for computer applications : DIGIT
4-down – Isle of Man adopts language without name : GUERNSEY
5-down – Allude to taking drug in joint : REEFER
6-down – Irish and Chinese besieging Italian, Swiss and Iranian capitals : HIBERNIAN
7-down – Demon at odds with the liturgy : SPRITE
8-down – Torch burning amid plague and corruption gets hospital to make a commitment : PLIGHTONESTROTH
15-down – There’s nothing in academic study fit for publication : PROOFREAD
17-down – Many a keyboard instrument keeps time for the head man : CAPITANO
18-down – Support for the devout in endless Euripides production : PRIEDIEU
20-down – Where art is visible to the blind? : LOUVRE
21-down – Eliminate clods with intellectual challenge : RIDDLE
23-down – Smell an anthropoid : HUMAN

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

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