Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22672 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22672 clues and answers were published on Fri 08 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22672 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Home is where it’s used to restore the gap : HATPEG
5-across – Weakness turned centrist into God : DEBILITY
9-across – Weeps at politicians’s tale of woe : SOBSTORY
10-across – Vassal and monarch drool : SLAVER
11-across – Batches of fraudsters receiving omen on the way back : CONSIGNMENTS
13-across – The lady’s a goddess : HERA
14-across – Laughter that is hearty – extravagantly so? : HYSTERIA
17-across – Model messenger flanking attendant : COURTIER
18-across – Count in Germany on a lot of hard work : GRAF
20-across – Rescind imprimatur from southern Balti dishes : DISESTABLISH
23-across – Support church with lance : PIERCE
24-across – Point to broadsheet’s identity : EQUALITY
25-across – It’s said sea fish comes first in Wales : ANGLESEY
26-across – Medicine: it gets sent back with good reason : TISANE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Previously lightweight with a look of wonder : AGOG
3-down – Encourage moderate transport for the young : PUSHCHAIR
4-down – Bring down, crushed : GROUND
5-down – Chuck Berry hit – Bog Lady? It’s a rip-off! : DAYLIGHTROBBERY
6-down – Firm logarithmic ratios in public transport : BUSINESS
7-down – Let energy fields come first : LEASE
8-down – Histrionic articles hearing about head case : THEATRICAL
12-down – Luddite response to march – the cat’s eaten it : DEMOLITION
15-down – Hothead with two sets of legs on which to tread lightly : EGGSHELLS
16-down – Highway inducing nervous disorder in the beloved : MISTRESS
19-down – Dance tune with variations after third note : MINUET
21-down – Sign up in forlorn endeavour to get picked up : ENROL
22-down – Astound – without a do : STUN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22671 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22671 clues and answers were published on Thu 07 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22671 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – I agree, within limit, with retraction of earlier work : PALINODE
5-across – Artist’s work, laced as 3 is minded : STRAIT
9-across – I produce a sweetener in lumps : SUGARPALM
11-across – Araucaria’s time for representation : IMAGE
12-across – Resilient piece to please the kids : BOUNCYCASTLE
15-across – Boat once current across the water : PUNT
16-across – Vexed by burglary? : AGGRAVATED
18-across – Removed on stretcher, having performed successfully? : CARRIEDOFF
19-across – Vulgar name for endless burden : NONU
21-across – Religious community on holy island left according to custom : CONVENTIONAL
24-across – A sceptic shortly on holy mountain : ATHOS
25-across – Very 21 leather next spring : HIDEBOUND
26-across – Having been made shipshape, it turned round and departed : TIDIED
27-across – Was the hidden cause of support for carpeting : UNDERLAY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Press forward, or back up and shut up : PUSH
2-down – See attempt at trademark : LOGO
3-down – Successor to 5 and…and bow? : NARROW
4-down – D-drops of water meeting old craving for waterway : DRAINAGEDITCH
6-down – I leave the unimportant and I’ve a shell in three parts : TRIVALVE
7-down – Paint a toad, which is not exactly fitting : ADAPTATION
8-down – Make an alteration in some clothes? Terrific! : TREMENDOUS
10-down – Person elected at springtime floor show on river : MAYOROFLONDON
13-down – Room for skill with shuttle, perhaps : SPACECRAFT
14-down – 3 or 25 in 4? : ENTRENCHED
17-down – Movie lover in ecstasy restrained by class : CINEASTE
20-down – Doctor in storm to take a 15 : GAMBLE
22-down – Influence rather than 1 down : PULL
23-down – Little boy doing the rounds? : EDDY

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22670 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22670 clues and answers were published on Wed 06 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22670 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Plain comfortable : HOMELY
6-across – Jumper’s game requiring nerve : POLONECK
9-across – Derail badly – having come off the line, you might? : REDIAL
10-across – Union head turns to Judaism : ADHESION
11-across – Financial instability of two supported couples, the first disheartened : BOOMANDBUST
15-across – Vineyard brews of the upper classes : CHATEAU
17-across – A section of Ankara, China’s Asian capital once : KARACHI
18-across – Shaky performer in call for ardency gone to pieces : BELLYDANCER
22-across – Something crude enters sheep, something hairy : FORELOCK
23-across – Cell door confines me : GAMETE
24-across – Country whose name was changed, so I heard : RHODESIA
25-across – Greek character needs a doctor, one figures : RHOMBI

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – On the mountain, a camel? To a certain extent : ALPACA
2-down – Painful withdrawal, having raw meat : COLDTURKEY
3-down – Deserters run off endlessly going north, with this as their guide? : POLESTAR
4-down – But is such a book easy-going? : HARDBACK
5-down – Now madam’s potty as her! : MADWOMAN
7-down – Go from the end of the bridge and cross it : EXIT
8-down – Thoughtful German issue : KIND
12-down – Fold of fat taking bottoms up, you might say? : DOUBLECHIN
13-down – A treat for which I yell out loud : ICECREAM
14-down – Germany needs a national prime minister : DISRAELI
16-down – Make strong old men be refined : EMBOLDEN
19-down – Sound of a fitful, yet brave, man : APACHE
20-down – Unlimited wildlife expedition in a distant place : AFAR
21-down – River is a river? Anything but! : ARNO

This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22669 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22669 clues and answers were published on Tue 05 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22669 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Unpopular worker promises to pay for plant : SCABIOUS
5-across – A resonant string brings harmony : ACCORD
9-across – Room in a monastery – but not for Trappists! : LOCUTORY
10-across – Some bonnets worn at Easter are flowery : ORNATE
12-across – Romantics seeing stars : VISIONARIES
15-across – Tips worth waiting for? : TRONC
17-across – The first of the few : OLIGARCHS
18-across – Vast offer made to engage too many : OVERSTAFF
19-across – Lever made of soft, malleable lead : PEDAL
20-across – They patrol with uneven paces : POLICEWOMEN
24-across – Keep film in water : RETAIN
25-across – Just man in poor surroundings : BALANCED
26-across – Sport where girl impresses artist : KARATE
27-across – They showed chasers the way to jump : STEEPLES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Mouth-watering violins at a jig : SALIVATION
2-down – Usual train heading for East Germany : ACCUSTOMED
3-down – Start coming back in a fortnight : INTRO
4-down – Beano’s unreal, mad, far-fetched : UNREASONABLE
6-down – Shady dealer showing character suddenly : CARDSHARP
7-down – Silica is not about resin : OPAL
8-down – It’s done up and down : DEED
11-down – Fast incident involved medical agent : DISINFECTANT
13-down – Well-read player from Hamilton? : ACADEMICAL
14-down – 500 seaplanes flying along areas by the sea : ESPLANADES
16-down – A ready supply starts at the market : CASHPOINT
21-down – It can deliver a blow while in the water : WHALE
22-down – See 23 : TREK
23-down – Starter rearranged Kirk’s first journey : STAR

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22668 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22668 clues and answers were published on Mon 04 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22668 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Restoration novel in authentic setting : RENEWAL
5-across – Call back to obtain a financial plan : BUDGET
9-across – Start to teach : INITIATE
10-across – Secure now business has increased? : FIRMUP
12-across – Serviceable arms? : WEAPONSOFWAR
15-across – He helps France to be free : BENEFACTOR
17-across – Amazed expression, taken aback by fabulous bird : ROC
19-across – Pixie full of Cockney wellbeing, we hear : ELF
20-across – English naval officer is about to impress : COMMANDEER
22-across – Wait to start a game of ping-pong? : SERVEATTABLE
26-across – Fly through tea break : AVIATE
27-across – Gloomy start to the music : DOWNBEAT
28-across – Hearing is difficult : TRYING
29-across – Place or race for two-year-olds : NURSERY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Bar banter : RAIL
2-down – An elevating Kipling poem of unaffected simplicity : NAIF
3-down – Cancel immediately, we hear : WRITEOFF
4-down – Drunk started smoking : LITUP
6-down – International group’s performing in concert : UNISON
7-down – Manager we’d ordered to run the wildlife reserve : GAMEWARDEN
8-down – A way to reproduce band score : TAPERECORD
11-down – Expected to do well at school : INFORM
13-down – Started job making items of aesthetic worth : OBJETSDART
14-down – One class in agreement : UNIFORMITY
16-down – Patches cuffs : CLOUTS
18-down – Hardly a fleet response that’s funny : ONELINER
21-down – Foreign money not returned, but forwarded : SENTON
23-down – A bar erected on quarterdeck : ADORN
24-down – Carnival produces a lot of sound : FETE
25-down – Check part of the rigging : STAY

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

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