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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22728 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22728 clues and answers were published on Wed 15 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22728 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Preference given to a blonde when it comes to the push? : UNFAIRDISMISSAL
9-across – Mad speed – speed that’s utterly reckless : DESPERATE
10-across – Property of some types backfires : SERIF
11-across – Drunk and disorderly riot over a dish : RISOTTO
12-across – Lad said worker is unlikely to go under : BUOYANT
13-across – Female born to endless necessity : NEE
14-across – Shop ran out, owing to demise of producers : ORPHANS
17-across – Let revolutionary remain in support : TRESTLE
19-across – Pine log used in making a bolt : ELOPING
22-across – Collapse of society girl at Norfolk town : DEBACLE
24-across – Chirac’s boyfriend? : AMI
25-across – Charge for case used briefly by a student : ACCUSAL
26-across – Unsound property? : SILENCE
28-across – Weariness comes over a number in European Union : ENNUI
29-across – Russian man of letters : LERMONTOV
30-across – Tour manager tries stupidly to accommodate composer with instrument : TRAVELORGANISER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Spook given lack of space by Holy Writ : UNDERCOVERAGENT
2-down – Group of gasteropods force us to repeat : FUSUS
3-down – State of train that is broken down : INERTIA
4-down – Inferior clergy get a second turn : DEACONS
5-down – There’s a little bubble mixture when it fizzes : SHERBET
6-down – Near the coast there’s said to be cover : INSHORE
7-down – It’s barbed when it turns up in a fresh carcass : SARCASTIC
8-down – Raise the fence to enable communication? : LIFTTHERECEIVER
15-down – Mangled corpse turns up in a number of stage features : PROSCENIA
16-down – Celibate in order to be Joshua’s parent : NUN
18-down – Plant found by the way in France : RUE
20-down – Draw breath in anger over having no issue : INSPIRE
21-down – Astronomer put up icon to a constellation : GALILEO
22-down – His disguise is in female clothes, when wielding this : DISHRAG
23-down – Dance with nothing on but a party decoration : BALLOON
27-down – Wireless working, turned up for music : NOTES

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22727 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22727 clues and answers were published on Tue 14 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22727 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Unfortunately, women willing to get a monthly occurrence : NEWMOON
5-across – 24 taking bondage in black : DISMAL
9-across – Arrogant geezers on a banker : COCKSURE
10-across – Tenants invited one occupant, with chain attached? : TOILET
12-across – Hubcaps are so original : HABEASCORPUS
15-across – Having taken drugs, spiritual about rest drunkenly covering work : UPHOLSTERY
17-across – Eggs are done, you say? : OVA
19-across – 18 feature of kisser : LIP
20-across – Concert note accepted by those without money, it is said, for the time being : PROTEMPORE
22-across – Time bid to go with court action : OBITERDICTUM
26-across – Instinctively discover temperature retained by Arctic native : INTUIT
27-across – Knock back a Red Sea of rum : DEMERARA
28-across – Mock to sit after poor grades : DERIDE
29-across – Christopher, on 10s having an attack of 4s : KITTENS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – 18 feature of kiss : NECK
2-down – Cord of one’s 4s to get on? : WICK
3-down – Bar in joint not entirely keeping jazz fans up : OBSTACLE
4-down – 18 feature of king in uniform, revolutionary : NERVE
6-down – Woodlouse, for example, is round with shell : ISOPOD
7-down – Unsuitable mother licks around poor Dicky : MALAPROPOS
8-down – One blissfully unaware as roulette wheels … : LOTUSEATER
11-down – … first half, perhaps, upset priest : ESPRIT
13-down – Substantial wind of bull fizzled out : FULLBODIED
14-down – Petty criminal pilfers hot rolls : SHOPLIFTER
16-down – Italy gripped by business lecture : TIRADE
18-down – Careless to drop right forward : IMPUDENT
21-down – Age span : PERIOD
23-down – 18 feature of bottom half : CHEEK
24-down – 18 feature of kisser : FACE
25-down – Bar with little atmosphere? : MARS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22726 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22726 clues and answers were published on Mon 13 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22726 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Tough policy on complicated land hire : HARDLINE
9-across – Wear down the Queen with long poem : ERODE
10-across – First man to be a mother : ADAM
11-across – Fido’s meal’s a mess : DOGSDINNER
12-across – He was a king just half a day : ARTHUR
14-across – Despite what’s been said, a rat fell out : AFTERALL
15-across – Harmonious movement in dance : ONESTEP
17-across – Friend from a city in Somerset nearly found beside the tub : BATHMAT
20-across – Anniversary of Sir Robin joining Labour : BIRTHDAY
22-across – Sword held by artist on jetty : RAPIER
23-across – No beautifier of public places : LITTERLOUT
24-across – Left words for bride and groom in Venice : LIDO
25-across – Recall first girl to swallow rubber stamp : EVOKE
26-across – Bankrupt there in India : INTHERED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Chap almost daring to speak Chinese : MANDARIN
2-down – Cheese made the wrong way : EDAM
3-down – Ash found by Ella on the stage : CINDER
4-down – Ingrid can be found on river with FBI agent : BERGMAN
5-down – Sell Spanish separatists, reportedly found feuding : VENDETTA
6-down – Hideaway with grass on, which may be open all hours : CORNERSHOP
7-down – Resulted in bell ringing loud note : BEFELL
13-down – Doubt when he gets a non-U situation : HESITATION
16-down – Supports one with dress in disarray : ENDORSES
18-down – It’s been read variously in Scotland : ABERDEEN
19-down – Of a British poet’s broadcast in Corby : BYRONIC
21-down – More than one plant is about to grow : IRISES
22-down – Turn, or turned, junk east : ROTATE
24-down – Woollies half removed, revealing whoppers! : LIES

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22724 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22724 clues and answers were published on Fri 10 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22724 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Person of mixed race wanting to feature in Cummings’ copy : EMULATE
5-across – One supplying backing, born to lend a hand : BASSIST
10-across – Wear for battle : FRAY
11-across – Form of novel – early one with post involved : EPISTOLARY
12-across – One in store takes salt : SAILOR
13-across – Hugging serpent in embrace : CLASPING
14-across – Outfitter supplying more comfort about the belly : COSTUMIER
16-across – Foxy lady’s early night starts after 5 to 9 : VIXEN
17-across – Hold forth, getting odds miscalculated : SPOUT
19-across – Plant, say, with worker among the ancestry : EGLANTINE
23-across – Time to launch attack on spillage of Ruhr ooze : ZEROHOUR
24-across – Some grain on the scrubland railway : BUSHEL
26-across – Drive crazy, drinking wine in carriage : DEPORTMENT
27-across – List percussion effect : ROLL
28-across – Do something different with cold celery : RECYCLE
29-across – Daring to put ship’s front and plane’s tail on ship : PROWESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – King hastened to interrupt revolutionary convert : MARRANO
3-down – Look up song that’s true : LOYAL
4-down – Proposition others about mineral source : THEOREM
6-down – Off course like platter : ASTRAY
7-down – Drunk skirting edges is a self-sufficient type : SOLIPSIST
8-down – Singular way to ramble : STRANGE
9-down – Knot concealing yen to prepare to defend allotment : KITCHENGARDEN
15-down – Tense third-generation Scot holding record for redundancy : TAUTOLOGY
18-down – Lead many into deeper trouble : PRECEDE
20-down – Umpire arranged to eat snack : ARBITER
21-down – Virtually redundant indicators : NEEDLES
22-down – Article left beneath left entrance : PORTAL
25-down – Extort from S8 : SCREW

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22723 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22723 clues and answers were published on Thu 09 Jan 2003 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22723 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – One rejecting old coin : DENIER
5-across – Fabric of legal importance : MATERIAL
9-across – Wild animal read about in port, perhaps : PREDATOR
10-across – Fashionable friend doing time? : INMATE
11-across – Making sure of ecclesiastical rite : CONFIRMATION
13-across – Bird getting in a twist : KNOT
14-across – Nervous structure of team with celebrity : GANGLION
17-across – The golfer’s problem? : HANDICAP
18-across – Taken in by famous editor : USED
20-across – Thought seriously about ten Cretan cod : CONCENTRATED
23-across – Aim straight : DIRECT
24-across – Pinter play I would see without fear : INTREPID
25-across – Abandon plane! is not, perhaps, necessary : JETTISON
26-across – Relative is up to rest being broken : SISTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Part of these isles reflected in their eyes : EIRE
3-down – Showed cad tied in knots : INDICATED
4-down – Status of a sailor : RATING
5-down – Union taking share of dowry : MARRIAGEPORTION
6-down – Adjusting balance with extra decoration : TRIMMING
7-down – Watch over instructions : REMIT
8-down – Stargazer or moon-starer, possibly : ASTRONOMER
12-down – Arouse opposition, if one’s a giant on the move : ANTAGONISE
15-down – A novice getting up to strip for the washerwoman : LAUNDRESS
16-down – One’s admitting turning into flowers : ACONITES
19-down – Sets out for America : STATES
21-down – Many take a break at the summit : CREST
22-down – Could possibly, we hear, make a small contribution : MITE

This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.

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