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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22680 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22680 clues and answers were published on Mon 18 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22680 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Moral code followed by a student : ETHICAL
5-across – Travel over snow is accepted by some retired people : ESKIMOS
10-across – Girl is to accept religious instruction : IRIS
11-across – Building constructed with joints in natural colouring : PROPERTIES
12-across – Office desk : BUREAU
13-across – Maintained a high level : TOPPEDUP
14-across – Three-card trick has been given a licence : CHARTERED
16-across – Navy prison : FLEET
17-across – Female undergarments, possibly bloomers : SLIPS
19-across – Mistress has care of one whelp among nine : CONCUBINE
23-across – Bitter sweet : ACIDDROP
24-across – An actor not working? Provide compensation! : OFFSET
26-across – Ordered home before becoming unwell : INDISPOSED
27-across – Fit a spring : WELL
28-across – Send me round to eastern land : DEMESNE
29-across – Lecture put on at short notice : ADDRESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Finished, being nothing less than painstaking : THROUGH
3-down – Outgoing children : ISSUE
4-down – A stubborn worker seen around river vessel : AMPOULE
6-down – Companion of Snow White likely to crash? : SLEEPY
7-down – Pregnant member of society : INTHECLUB
8-down – The excessive utilisation of various oeuvres : OVERUSE
9-down – Declare all points in order : BOXTHECOMPASS
15-down – Frier paid off with speedy discharge : RAPIDFIRE
18-down – Permit excessive behaviour? : LICENCE
20-down – Full of humanity : CROWDED
21-down – Wants to be out of the French sewers : NEEDLES
22-down – Saw the head for an examination : TREPAN
25-down – We infer a reduction in numbers : FEWER

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22678 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22678 clues and answers were published on Fri 15 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22678 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Sherpa’s old vehicle? : HILLMAN
8-across – A quiet entertainment outside is less expensive : CHEAPER
10-across – Game that brings credit to pulpit : CRAMEO
11-across – Bird with urge to find flower : LARKSPUR
12-across – Young man inexperienced with a gun : COLT
13-across – Invaded cache or den, perhaps : ENCROACHED
14-across – Play up your street? : ASYOULIKEIT
19-across – Players I kept in and chastised : CASTIGATED
22-across – Head to ask for views : POLL
23-across – Card game played in the theatre? : PATIENCE
24-across – Acted without restraint when young rowdy goes to city abroad : RIOTED
25-across – See letter by essayist on flower : LOBELIA
26-across – Erased document about the French model : DELETED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Entertainer producing terribly ripe rubbish : PIERROT
2-down – Plant to make cat smile : CLEMATIS
3-down – Standard Spanish expression for word of honour : PAROLE
4-down – Daily woman with hair like a weed : CHARLOCK
5-down – Analyse carbon from a great distance : PARSEC
6-down – Sent as agent and set in action : DEPUTED
9-down – Obstruct landlord, perhaps, in obtaining capital : BLOCKLETTER
15-down – Material causing publication to give up : ORGANDIE
16-down – Child wandered about and felt better : IMPROVED
17-down – Welsh lake not about to become a much larger one : BALATON
18-down – An inactive coach? : SLEEPER
20-down – Material found by model in bathroom : TOILET
21-down – Girl heard in a monk’s bedroom ? : DORTER

This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22677 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22677 clues and answers were published on Thu 14 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22677 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – State representative abused the charming little girl : NYMPHET
5-across – Estate needs management, getting setter in : DEMESNE
9-across – One of the 19 can get on in the hierarchy : CANON
10-across – Flexible girl fit to enter training : ADAPTABLE
11-across – Shape Emmy displays is breathtaking : EMPHYSEMA
12-across – Would say the reverse of a thick slice : BALSA
13-across – Bogged down a bit in Germany : STUCK
15-across – Like live wires without one being defamed : INSULATED
18-across – A gong is an establishment expression of respect : OBEISANCE
19-across – What many are reluctant to wear : CLOTH
21-across – Stair exercises pedal parts : TARSI
23-across – Not qualified for display in nude art : UNTRAINED
25-across – Say Turner turns endlessly ill, provide a painkiller : ANALGESIC
26-across – Where flame trees are smash hit on borders of Kenya : THIKA
27-across – It keeps its mouth open to strike victim : LAMPREY
28-across – In France, the east is in the west : LORIENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – American uncle first represented the centre : NUCLEUS
2-down – It strikes over-40s about 1pm, turning up with a purpose : MENOPAUSE
3-down – King showing affection to his daughter is widely seen as a warmonger : HENRY
4-down – Writer who is poor at reading : TRAGEDIAN
5-down – A drop of the hard stuff before 4’s work : DRAMA
6-down – Relative to chemical processes encountered by a mixture of oil in ancient times : METABOLIC
7-down – Dame of 5 shattered by dislike when needle’s inserted : SYBIL
8-down – Small type turns out to be mere lad : EMERALD
14-down – See 3 : KISSINGER
16-down – Cecil’s apt to become suspicious : SCEPTICAL
17-down – See 7 : THORNDIKE
18-down – Where water goes, but not in autumn … : OUTFALL
20-down – … whence it comes, from unknown right hand : HYDRANT
22-down – Practicality is lacking in this land : REALM
23-down – Retract one in 28, for example : UNSAY
24-down – Exponent of 5 in current eminence : ACTOR

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22676 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22676 clues and answers were published on Wed 13 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22676 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Gold award for actors maintaining order and freedom : AUTONOMY
5-across – Not suspecting timekeeper was born in the place : NATIVE
9-across – Clumsy model to make fewer stage appearances : TACTLESS
10-across – Continued to excavate graves starting at the Mermaid? : DUGONG
12-across – Be very successful at campanology? : RINGTHEBELL
15-across – Headgear to go wild on? : TILES
17-across – Second person to rule gets a large amount of plastic surgery : SKINGRAFT
18-across – Chaste girl, one protected by mother, is silvery-white : MAGNESIUM
19-across – Edit recording of shrine : ALTER
20-across – Call the hymn out for the 24 of 19 5 2 : MACHYNLLETH
24-across – C-course – English – lost heart : CENTRE
25-across – Big guns for Rufus, a surprisingly domestic type : HAUSFRAU
26-across – Be sorry for being in prison again : REPENT
27-across – Wish someone didn’t have to ask Barnaby? : BEGRUDGE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Fire at mate? Trouble in due course : AFTERATIME
2-down – Sleuth on heroin has no record at the Yard; this shows how it’s done : TECHNOLOGY
3-down – Sudanese raised in plenty : NILOT
4-down – I control the system? Nuts! The Queen’s got magic powers : MASTERSWITCH
6-down – Flower with one lower part one must put in water : AQUILEGIA
7-down – One has to look carefully at a picture : ICON
8-down – The side with advantage : EDGE
11-down – Reckless and wicked male protected by supervision in working hours : DEVILMAYCARE
13-down – Domestic animal, model walker, gets shot of 19 5 to gate : CATTLEGRID
14-down – Treasury given to retired lady in pickle : STOREHOUSE
16-down – No 1 4 for the press? : STEAMIRON
21-down – Amplifier to help retail a service : LASER
22-down – Trauma at the borough? : SCAR
23-down – Cut that can’t lose : SNIP

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22675 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22675 clues and answers were published on Tue 12 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22675 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Tunic a tailor prepared for delivery : ARTICULATION
8-across – Posh doctor’s fury gives offence : UMBRAGE
9-across – Hope to restrict the downfall of a language : WENDISH
11-across – Composer keeps a ton of jade : SATIATE
12-across – Namely, sailor’s free of rough skin : SCABRID
13-across – There’s gravity in woeful song of farewell : DIRGE
14-across – Rudeness becomes folly right away : IMPUDENCE
16-across – The scorer fouled up in New York : ROCHESTER
19-across – A tug returned fully laden : ALLUP
21-across – One forever complaining about priest’s clutch : GRIPPER
23-across – Marchese ignoring a wild fox : SCHEMER
24-across – Cheap stuff containing poor material : TABARET
25-across – Fruit for the Castilian in the dance : TANGELO
26-across – A liking for the Parisian taken in by fortune-telling : PREDILECTION

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Judge a royal nipper : ARBITER
2-down – Every one detailed comes in to eat food : TEACAKE
3-down – Sailors’ register includes Egyptian embroiderer : CREWELIST
4-down – Many a crone is on a bender in Sussex : LEWES
5-down – A king died carrying basin of pewter : TANKARD
6-down – Greek character’s very short in the leg : OMICRON
7-down – The winger is not in the team. OK? : OUTSIDERIGHT
10-down – The winger evades the usual trouble : HEDGESPARROW
15-down – Freeloading act is a rip-off : PARASITIC
17-down – Caught on pliant sort of plant : CLIMBER
18-down – Old relationship lefty brought to an end : EXPIRED
19-down – Remains opposed to West African : ASHANTI
20-down – Sucker causes strike on training ships : LAMPERN
22-down – Roast large mammal : RATEL

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

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