Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22734 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22734 clues and answers were published on Wed 22 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22734 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Camp with old shopping centre fitted into angle : FOPPISH
5-across – Worry about horse slaughter : CARNAGE
9-across – Ornament to lug round : EARRING
10-across – O!, I cried, entangled with heatherlike leaves : ERICOID
11-across – Refreshment for theologian in sports arena : ICEDDRINK
12-across – Sugar the supplier initially omitted to provide : CATER
13-across – Habitual resort to elite name when sending round something appealing for donations : HAUNT
15-across – Girl’s fellow making tracks? So what’s new? : DISCOVERY
17-across – Deduction in barrier protection for the Queen : INFERENCE
19-across – Dumbhead! What? Covering point with profundity? : DEPTH
22-across – Stubble that brings back blemishes : STRAW
23-across – Old film buff is heard wanting time to creep : SYCOPHANT
25-across – Return perished, clutching a fag, having lost gravity and needing help to hear : DEAFAID
26-across – Genuine performance by young player : INGENUE
27-across – Beast! Goddess returns the baking dish! : RAMEKIN
28-across – No tears when gypsy gentleman appears in a new colour : DRYEYED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Sounding catarrhal, perhaps, like Rubens? : FLEMISH
2-down – Upstart detailed usual meeting place : PARVENU
3-down – Painter turned up, engrossing one in a long story : ILIAD
4-down – Strangely daring, he’d been beset by women : HAGRIDDEN
5-down – Caught smell of river : CREEK
6-down – Sun-god incorporated garish weather indicator : RAINCLOUD
7-down – A job for the French preacher : APOSTLE
8-down – Old king, being in the wrong, yelled : ELDERLY
14-down – Having to return the toss may lead to atavism : THROWBACK
16-down – Not one’s own favourites picked up by companion I loved extremely : STEPCHILD
17-down – Has be been charged with knowing too much? : INSIDER
18-down – Winchester strict about organ : FIREARM
20-down – Patently, it could be any pill : PLAINLY
21-down – Two articles in a carrier? What an impetuous person! : HOTHEAD
23-down – Chair removed from a Chinese dance-hall : SEDAN
24-down – The pain’s about over, my little man! : PYGMY

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22733 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22733 clues and answers were published on Tue 21 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22733 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Making love on the royal yacht? : COURTSHIP
6-across – Identification mark of one from a set that’s incomplete : BADGE
9-across – Object of veneration encountered Old Testament rejection : TOTEM
10-across – In Kent it’s made no difference… : MAIDSTONE
11-across – … to new sport reporter on the south coast : PORTSMOUTH
12-across – A little cash is in the post, we’re told : CENT
14-across – Silk net made into mastic : LENTISK
15-across – Girl receives letter in Greek from spiny creature : ECHIDNA
17-across – Impish enjoyment soldier’s taken in scene of massacre : GLENCOE
19-across – Figure a month with endless pain : DECAGON
20-across – Rifle fire : SACK
22-across – Free trade – comic sort of rule : DEMOCRATIC
25-across – Pharaoh’s approving expression on passionate record : AMENHOTEP
26-across – Doughboy rejected bathroom in northern accommodation : IGLOO
27-across – Dined in college, it’s said : EATEN
28-across – Lines in church choir work curtailed by a bloomer : CHRYSANTH

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – TUC deeply afflicted : CUTUP
2-down – True English can’t form speech : UTTERANCE
3-down – Newspaper medium may turn on the heat : TIMESWITCH
4-down – Border security can be deadly : HEMLOCK
5-down – Love potion said to enhance purity : PHILTRE
6-down – Jungle man could be subhuman – not half! : BUSH
7-down – Roger exhausted without being an idler : DRONE
8-down – What a gricer does to get it? : EYESTRAIN
13-down – What maintenance staff should do at points, etc : CHECKRAILS
14-down – Support is overdue for what diets do : LEGISLATE
16-down – Approve of European cutting out a drug : DIGITALIN
18-down – Tie lace loosened by Zeno, for example : ELEATIC
19-down – Pretentious type loses name, then he falls : DROPPER
21-down – Many deserted following schism : CLEFT
23-down – Dedicated type much seen in church : CLOTH
24-down – Military order to avoid? : SHUN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22732 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22732 clues and answers were published on Mon 20 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22732 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Inaccurate shooting, but it can spread destruction : WILDFIRE
9-across – Song about salt in Asia : ARABIA
10-across – Kind of bender the vanquished go on : KNEE
11-across – A smart point of view in a tight corner? : ACUTEANGLE
12-across – The little devil breaks cover and gets clear : LIMPID
14-across – Top note I struggled to get, stretching high : ONTIPTOE
15-across – Shouts that fan the flames : BELLOWS
17-across – Moral support : UPRIGHT
20-across – All women do : HENPARTY
22-across – Squadron loses fifty in battles : FIGHTS
23-across – Shoe seller paid for repair : ESPADRILLE
24-across – Rogue quietly abandoned swindle : SCAM
25-across – Birds, say, disturb rest : EGRETS
26-across – Licensed to make flags : DECLINES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Major report produced by a VIP : BIGNOISE
2-down – Side having the advantage : EDGE
3-down – Monitor our most southerly point : LIZARD
4-down – Determined to attack : SETUPON
5-down – Fabricate some story to end the argument : MAKEITUP
6-down – Sea water in one’s watch : MAINSPRING
7-down – Repairs to rail or canal bridge : RIALTO
13-down – He goes riding after the ball : POLOPLAYER
16-down – Key worker in army uniform? : WARDRESS
18-down – One has trouble getting into this : HOTWATER
19-down – They are raised for anyone to see : EYELIDS
21-down – Officer standard : ENSIGN
22-down – Irregular forces decoration : FRESCO
24-down – Act as an agitator and get jail : STIR

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22730 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22730 clues and answers were published on Fri 17 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22730 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Arrest man with hawk’s head, a bit of a nut : COPRA
4-across – What’s odd in funny Haydn symphony : DRUMROLL
8-across – After dissection, I preserved dead mammal : PEREDAVIDSDEER
10-across – Male in the drink about to join vessel – do this again : REEMBARK
11-across – Gift for boy lost in forest : HANSEL
12-across – A province with street harbouring cunning freedom fighter? : ANARCHIST
15-across – Weary maiden rejected virtue : MERIT
17-across – Flowering plant at home blocking chimney : LINUM
18-across – Place in theatre must be tidy – never churned over inside : GREENROOM
19-across – In the auditorium confine one after another : INTURN
21-across – Pioneers modified chemical used in rubber manufacture : ISOPRENE
24-across – Tense? Things will never get better! : PRESENTPERFECT
25-across – College Master in homosexual practice involving many partners : POLYGAMY
26-across – Holy word leader put out – such will be hollow : ANTRA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Grouse to jump about – one left to rest : CAPERCAILLIE
2-down – Church with gold roof: outside is dull material : PORCELAIN
3-down – Components of bread provided in dry measure : ARDEB
4-down – Sleazy bar given classification not ace fun : DIVERTING
5-down – Our duty is to protect the language : URDU
6-down – Fish in river: land some for cooking : REDSALMON
7-down – Ring secured by reduced deposit : LOESS
9-down – Latent mercy’s stirred for woman murdering her husband : CLYTEMNESTRA
13-down – Arrived with man, keeping quiet! Anxious to avoid the paparazzi? : CAMERASHY
14-down – One of the 16s briefly associated with old shah’s form of belief : THEOSOPHY
16-down – Former president showing resolve to reform? : ROOSEVELT
20-down – Endless twisting putting out one part of body : TORSO
22-down – Scottish explorer with a coat : PARKA
23-down – Woman given name in collection of stories : ANNA

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22729 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22729 clues and answers were published on Thu 16 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22729 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Missing articles – llamas confused with lamas – I’ve got plenty of tricks : SMALLSLAM
6-across – Deity some see as a tyrant : SATYR
9-across – Expressive books that needn’t be read : SPEAKINGVOLUMES
10-across – 27 17 exposed to drink : AIRE
11-across – Drink time : SUPERADD
14-across – Part of a 17, say, a beast of a weed : DANDELION
15-across – 17 on high ground : CAIRN
16-across – Lana Turner’s head turned at birth : NATAL
18-across – Say about Tracey being embraced by tinker, it appears : SEEMINGLY
20-across – African currency comes in a little bit casually : ATRANDOM
21-across – See 10 : DALE
25-across – I’m at college: little work is required relative to how it’s done : EPISTEMOLOGICAL
26-across – Father’s new hooter : SIREN
27-across – 17 to shirk problem in former days : YORKSHIRE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Russian girl is ashamed to part : SASHA
2-down – Vitamin B for Bevan : ANEURIN
3-down – 17 has left Kipling’s grey wolf and doesn’t start : LAKE
4-down – See 3 : LAND
5-down – Roman venue arranged for me darlin’ : MAVOURNEEN
6-down – For crossing palm with olive in Senior Common Room? : SILVERCOIN
7-down – Boy’s terror curtailed by drums : TIMPANI
8-down – Top job topped – it’s a hospital job : RESIDENCY
12-down – 17 part of garden where heather’s not raised : BEDLINGTON
13-down – M for a holiday? : FIRSTOFMAY
14-down – Wear for station abroad among the sandhills : DUNGAREES
17-down – Row about slip up in the inventory : TERRIER
19-down – Roman brothers get fat keeping up numbered chariot : GRACCHI
22-down – Little girl of the Spanish romance : ELLIE
23-down – Group one can’t make out : BLUR
24-down – Sure things : EGGS

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

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