Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22692 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22692 clues and answers were published on Mon 02 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22692 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Sportsman doesn’t quite make the North Pole, losing direction : POTHOLER
9-across – More work here – or less, many hope! : UTOPIA
10-across – Point-to-point training establishment : ETON
11-across – Dracula? : BLOODCOUNT
12-across – Frisk doctor entering prison : GAMBOL
14-across – Blank sheet to finish a learned discourse : ENDPAPER
15-across – Letter from America? : REALTOR
17-across – Profit in a way in opposition : AGAINST
20-across – Man’s environment, geographically speaking : IRISHSEA
22-across – Enraptured railway guard : SENTRY
23-across – Green plan to recycle : CHARTREUSE
24-across – Capital punishment : FINE
25-across – Manage to get a title : HANDLE
26-across – Prank ceased being funny when father came in : ESCAPADE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – After which the participants come out of their shells : BOATRACE
2-down – Avoid attention : SHUN
3-down – Comprehensive to throw girl out : GLOBAL
4-down – He swears he’s a soldier : TROOPER
5-down – Animal looking for its owner : GUIDEDOG
6-down – Enthronement of firm king has appeal to the country : CORONATION
7-down – Intended taking one quarter out of capital : FIANCE
13-down – Protection on landing for party setting up American commerce : BALUSTRADE
16-down – Spectator, a weekly publication : OBSERVER
18-down – Song composed about the present time : SERENADE
19-down – Muse involved with Art for ages : MATURES
21-down – He’s involved in new rate of afterburning : REHEAT
22-down – Draw matted wool in school : SKETCH
24-down – Rider following Foreign Office toffs : FOPS

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22690 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22690 clues and answers were published on Fri 29 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22690 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – To have more than one rum, but get tipsy : OUTNUMBER
10-across – First lady in the House made clergyman lose his head : ASTOR
11-across – Oil able to be refined in plant : LOBELIA
12-across – She loved Daddy spreading treacle : ELECTRA
13-across – Emporium demands silence at work : SHOP
14-across – Oscar’s Lady of the Lake? : WINDERMERE
15-across – One and ten are confused, of course : AINTREE
17-across – State day centre : AVERAGE
19-across – The pot man accepts hard work from Rodin : THETHINKER
22-across – Mother’s side seen in skirt : MAXI
23-across – Flushed character calls for player to be dismissed : REDCARD
24-across – Topper finds his talk is rambling : SILKHAT
26-across – Organs with sounds I extracted : NOSES
27-across – Official voice of the cyclist? : SPOKESMAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Very important to make everybody sing about a mad man : WORLDSHATTERING
2-down – Mulish objections raised and natural to follow : STUBBORN
3-down – Proper line for two people fighting : DUEL
4-down – Rough supporter is standing in the avenue : ABRASIVE
5-down – Enthusiast embraced right partner : FRIEND
6-down – Keeping unattached and happy : CAREFREE
7-down – Still figure of Ms Barker describing rubbish : STATUE
8-down – Anti-wrinkling can steer a sister off the rails : CREASERESISTANT
16-down – To prepare, he corrected with eraser : REHEARSE
17-down – Horror of a kind : AVERSION
18-down – What makes a man hate the curse? : ANATHEMA
20-down – In Gospel destined to be first : ELDEST
21-down – Sidney is held up by crackpot who’s naked : NUDIST
25-down – They say faulty actor topped and tailed the worst parts : LEES

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22689 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22689 clues and answers were published on Thu 28 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22689 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Mr Sloan entertaining a straight type was sycophantic : TOADIED
5-across – Knight held a feast first : GALAHAD
9-across – Sweeper from El Salvador replacing Romania with another : BESOM
10-across – I’m getting money for the road as I enter the country : IMMIGRANT
11-across – Cool cuties hit annus horribilis : UNENTHUSIASTIC
13-across – Turn to law to get moorland shrub : ULEX
14-across – Edition of verse with a Brazilian spirit : VARIORUM
17-across – The Creation is golden – a high spot I love : ORATORIO
18-across – One of a pair has time to succeed : TWIN
21-across – Focusing on one effect of noise is capital : SPECIALISATION
23-across – Find somewhere to sit within reach : GETATABLE
24-across – I went on a pilgrimage to reverse the priority of holy war : HADJI
25-across – When the gracious appear to make a point in a study? : TUESDAY
26-across – Hindu achievement of instant riches without trendy females : TANTRIC

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Raised border in brass : TUBA
2-down – Where demonstrators face bank, ghee is thrown: so one’s very much 3 when 12 : ABSENCEMAKESTHE
3-down – Purposed to get pub ready for detonation, according to report : INMIND
4-down – Name of president who died an old man? : DWIGHT
5-down – Player a la Potter makes good start at Middle Eastern capital, securing points : GAMESMAN
6-down – Supposed origin of president’s diary in taxi at home : LOGCABIN
7-down – See 2 : HEARTGROWFONDER
8-down – Soldiers picked out for objectivity? : DETACHMENT
12-down – Has a duty, keeping so fit, mysteriously to be hidden : OUTOFSIGHT
15-down – Oil producer enters destined to be hammered : FOLIATED
16-down – Young goatherd who fancied Nancy? : BILLYBOY
19-down – Agreement when dispatched : ASSENT
20-down – River where the king couldn’t stand the heat? : ITCHEN
22-down – Record is complete in part : DISC

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22688 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22688 clues and answers were published on Wed 27 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22688 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Go for Mailsort – it’s the best choice : OPTIMAL
5-across – Fish taken where it’s landed : HADDOCK
9-across – Plan for bringing back Thatcher – not half! : PROGRAM
10-across – Anyhow, sceptre commands it : RESPECT
11-across – Drug for fingernail treatment : DIGITALIN
12-across – Time to amuse, they say : ERATO
13-across – The rump, of course : NATCH
15-across – Model after the boys has gone out with an old politician : GLADSTONE
17-across – Flooded home, exactly when is not certain : INUNDATED
19-across – Against Conservative leader as a buffoon : ANTIC
22-across – Bush mad? That’s about right! : SHRUB
23-across – Flier’s annoyed with demand for payment : CROSSBILL
25-across – Fastidious person finds English painting heartless : EPICURE
26-across – It enabled Wyatt to hear – or not! : EARPLUG
27-across – Device for foot-related operation : TREADLE
28-across – A small amount one takes to end it all in a depressed state : ACCIDIE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Work in pad over in town … : OPPIDAN
2-down – … nevertheless needing time for contemplation : THOUGHT
3-down – Odd time to get in right talent : MERIT
4-down – It helps to see how to get over a bad situation : LAMPLIGHT
5-down – A bird gets no promotion from the lady : HERON
6-down – Stomach disorder caused by odd days without a drink : DYSPEPSIA
7-down – Herb, a Shakespearean in spectacles : OREGANO
8-down – Lines written to a girl at a terminal : KATHODE
14-down – Reactionary is sure to take cover first : HIDEBOUND
16-down – Mythical Greek or Roman deadbeat : ANDROMEDA
17-down – Examine prisoner initially arrested by bluebottle, say : INSPECT
18-down – Britain’s downfall spoken of round Lvov : UKRAINE
20-down – Flirted, perhaps : TRIFLED
21-down – Odour reported with scent? : COLOGNE
23-down – Hillside is almost bright : CLEVE
24-down – Worries about icy pillar : SERAC

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22687 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22687 clues and answers were published on Tue 26 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22687 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Stuff openly woven by wizard in combat : SCRIMMAGE
6-across – It has bill as introduction to throat : MACAW
9-across – Gets cracker that tops everything : TAKESTHEBISCUIT
10-across – Flier’s fleece : ROOK
11-across – Creature to stake a territory : ANTEATER
14-across – Act in belief in God’s negative disposition : DEFEATISM
15-across – Talking bunk is sort of right : BIRTH
16-across – Say spinning top is cold : GELID
18-across – Doll given makeover that’s lasting : LONGLIVED
20-across – Birdie that’s bettered by one wiseacre : EAGLEOWL
21-across – Gentle dig : GRUB
25-across – Appearance initiates a moral resolve : MATERIALISATION
26-across – Tongue right in the middle of face : NORSE
27-across – Record Hot Rock is cut very short : EPHEMERAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The lecher’s day : SATYR
2-down – Whisking for fake cream : RAKEOFF
3-down – Frenzy’s essential : MUST
4-down – Hurt each other : ACHE
5-down – It’s under way as two men bat together with Kent’s opening spell : EMBANKMENT
6-down – Invited British entrant to walk in party : MASKEDBALL
7-down – Sailing vessel gets line in mess : CLUTTER
8-down – Married to conceal broken hearts – that’s the point of separation : WATERSHED
12-down – It’s backing horse to muddle through most of the way : SADDLETREE
13-down – Holding down its job : PILLOWCASE
14-down – Follow European fishing boat : DOGGERMAN
17-down – Perhaps spill vessel to make it so : LIGHTER
19-down – Scale up control onclergyman : VERNIER
22-down – Forbid a student flat : BANAL
23-down – Where a crop may be scaled : FISH
24-down – See 23 : FARM

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

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