Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22715 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22715 clues and answers were published on Tue 31 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22715 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Bigwig with big backing from primate : GIBBON
5-across – The fisherman’s whim : MAGGOT
8-across – The country round follows alternative 1s : ORLANDO
9-across – Winter sports association for 51 bucks, maybe : SKICLUB
11-across – Ignis fatuus for back-packers? : TRAVELLINGLIGHT
12-across – Address to Manx cat by 8 across 1s, maybe : OPUS
13-across – A barrier against Tyneside must be unbreakable : ADAMANTINE
17-across – Before there’s an upheaval, get a better job : PREFERMENT
18-across – Precious little 12 for others : OPAL
20-across – Change from cad with clot and from 19 1s’ 12 : COLDCOMFORTFARM
23-across – Young creature for hire, always to be taken in : LEVERET
24-across – Nobel prizewinner could be lost in a tabloid : SULSTON
25-across – Waged war determinedly to show 1 : EDWARD
26-across – Literary hero’s drunk : SHANDY

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – All turn – that’s demanded out of spite : ILLNATURE
3-down – I won’t allow you to flag : BANNER
4-down – Pasta with Benedictine in the realm of folly : NOODLEDOM
5-down – Two generations could be free : MASON
6-down – 1s putting a smile on a fish : GRINLING
7-down – POW camp with prisoners’ regulator? : OFLAG
8-down – Heal portico that’s collapsed: is this correctly pronounced? : ORTHOEPICAL
10-down – Drink in Germany – please get the right answer : BITTERLEMON
14-down – Beasts and bird in battle : MONGOOSES
15-down – Heath makes himself known about scheme that wasn’t there at first : IMPLANTED
16-down – Two churches on song: a worm will follow : CERCARIA
19-down – A girl to confess being inside it : STELLA
21-down – Grey cover containing 6 : LIVID
22-down – Matched and dispatched? : MATED

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22714 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22714 clues and answers were published on Mon 30 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22714 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Gather that the bell has gone? : ROUNDUP
5-across – The cad is about to break off the engagement : DETACH
9-across – The point of punctuation : FULLSTOP
10-across – Current charge for what solicitors do : ACCOST
12-across – Ideal sales talk of appeal to music lovers : PERFECTPITCH
15-across – Free fall may be enjoyed by sportsmen : OPENSEASON
17-across – Charming feature of Japanese dress : OBI
19-across – The pitch of the road : TAR
20-across – One may put one’s foot in it; how does one wriggle out? : WOODENSHOE
22-across – Bold break-in using a jemmy? : ENTERPRISING
26-across – Terrible, but not initially loud, stream of abuse : EARFUL
27-across – Get away with a clip round the ear : CLEAROUT
28-across – Finally dispose of most of the relatives? Rot! : KIBOSH
29-across – Poor side away from home fails to survive : DIESOUT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Craft without a prow : RAFT
2-down – Yet such a description may be fair : UGLY
3-down – Do without and give to others : DISPENSE
4-down – Demonstration of spiritual strength : PROOF
6-down – Expect disturbance in bar : EXCEPT
7-down – It indicates I will be missing from Who’s Who : APOSTROPHE
8-down – Thumbs up for a seeker of cheap travel : HITCHHIKER
11-down – Current binder for correspondence : ACCORD
13-down – Hold up close to Cork : BOTTLENECK
14-down – A pop star, perhaps, pulsating with vitality : HEARTTHROB
16-down – A panel on an aircraft, perhaps : ABOARD
18-down – Aunt Enid flounders in swamp : INUNDATE
21-down – Pop’s executors? : GROUPS
23-down – It can’t run, so takes cover : SOLID
24-down – Crazy, maybe, but often with motive : LOCO
25-down – Impressive plea for original expression : STET

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22712 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22712 clues and answers were published on Fri 27 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22712 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Left Group One to feature in commercial : ABANDONED
10-across – One who looks lecherously breaks leg in Oregon : OGLER
11-across – One not known to Heather provides a hint : INKLING
12-across – Like a lengthened skirt, it’s a disappointment : LETDOWN
13-across – Fish to sell, recipe included : TROUT
14-across – Bad sentry failing as a witness : BYSTANDER
16-across – He will free everyone first, causing pandemonium : ALLHELLLETLOOSE
19-across – Better time for cutting down on food of high quality : EXCELLENT
21-across – Rough, but not censored : UNCUT
22-across – Traitors turning to wine marked special : STARRED
23-across – Erasmus used one who, reportedly, needs bodies : MASSEUR
24-across – Scoundrel with an Irish accent first found missing : ROGUE
25-across – Mark subordinate to policy : UNDERLINE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Reformed tart is game to see JP : MAGISTRATE
2-down – Finance allows Kitty to have bread : BANKROLL
3-down – Enthusiast to count: it includes one hundred : ADDICT
4-down – Shooting party members got up to get warm : SNUG
5-down – Incline to keep unemployment benefit for a teenager : ADOLESCENT
6-down – Soccer boot twisted in dive : FOOTBALL
7-down – Type of paste used by salmon daily : ALMOND
8-down – Mother’s mother nearly gets donation : GRAN
14-down – Love letter found with tie in dull box : BILLETDOUX
15-down – Actual sound recorded twice running on sort of tape machine : REELTOREEL
17-down – Elgar composed differently in the finale, when amplified : ENLARGED
18-down – Near to getting praise by instalments : ONCREDIT
20-down – Safekeeping for a warhorse without a tail : CHARGE
21-down – Hesitant superior takes on new nurse : UNSURE
22-down – Cupid got up and, they say, saw red : SORE
23-down – It’s the fashion for a maiden to be attracted to poetry : MODE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22710 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22710 clues and answers were published on Mon 23 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22710 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Trace letter about inhabitant of the dump : VESTIGE
5-across – Insect – call it Eric, initially : TERMITE
10-across – Author of 27 and 7 of the Church, one in opposition carrying cross : FOXE
11-across – Still return thanks to island king in hovel : STATIONARY
12-across – Farrow’s mum’s noxious emission : MIASMA
13-across – Co-ruler sending semi-victorious 6 to the river : TRIUMVIR
14-across – – meals provided control panel : DASHBOARD
16-across – One moving house in no hurry : SNAIL
17-across – Capacious man is out of order : ROOMY
19-across – Mineral in flower after a party : ALABASTER
23-across – Sufficiently matured in spring, though lacking majority : WELLHUNG
24-across – He’s mad as he goes a-Maying : NUTTER
26-across – Is astir, say, unbridled in lust : SATYRIASIS
27-across – Fell about carrying model piece of Scripture : ACTS
28-across – Greek character following old network on inner tubes : BRONCHI
29-across – Sunburst makes hooter hairy : UNSHORN

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Cut up about ear-related fancy goods : EXOTICA
3-down – Performer of no account in Hair : TRESS
4-down – Postage fixed by the police : GESTAPO
6-down – Quarter permitted to draw out : ELICIT
7-down – Memorials bringing a Parisian round in seconds : MONUMENTS
8-down – Salt can one supplies a composer : TARTINI
9-down – Spoil Alpine region with love, getting sense of 10, for example : MARTYROLOGIST
15-down – Welcome fellow catching a song of the mountains : HIMALAYAN
18-down – Performing in opera outdoors : OPENAIR
20-down – Kingsley’s performing – that’s a blessing : BENISON
21-down – One opting for introduction to economics reader : ELECTOR
22-down – Stick out, keeping girl hot for another : JUDITH
25-down – What to do to one in college? : TEACH

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22708 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22708 clues and answers were published on Fri 20 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22708 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Parade The Arsenal across one’s backside? : MILITARY
5-across – See 1 : TATTOO
9-across – Old measure in Burma designed as a shield : UMBRELLA
10-across – Responsibility for attack : CHARGE
12-across – Did he regret tortuous torture? : THIRDDEGREE
15-across – Rage of East End gangsters reported : CRAZE
17-across – Curved feature in dog initially in dog : BOWWINDOW
18-across – Flower given to Mandela’s opening at improper point of release : EXEMPTION
19-across – Not going anywhere yet : STILL
20-across – Paul recited nonsense, seeing double : REDUPLICATE
24-across – Some would say he was a physicist : PLANCK
25-across – Asian pastry contains one leg : FILIPINO
26-across – Phone the doctor: something in the gall bladder : MOBILE
27-across – Separate and set off for the mountains : ESTRANGE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – With Scotsman around, put out by man’s hairy appendages : MOUSTACHES
2-down – Having produced articles about social security, makes things run smoothly : LUBRICATES
3-down – Flower-pot put under pot without flower : TWEED
4-down – Posh car drives very fast with shading devices : ROLLERBLINDS
6-down – Unlimited healthy activity with little muscular movements in running, etc : ATHLETICS
7-down – Recipe for upside down cake : TURN
8-down – See 7 : OVER
11-down – Minor problems caused by putting arm on secretary in delicate areas : GROWINGPAINS
13-down – Proportion in organisation gaining respect : ADMIRATION
14-down – Not quite two and eleven when fixed, holds to a description of Schoenberg’s music : TWELVETONE
16-down – Reverent during miracle working, not deduced by logic : EMPIRICAL
21-down – More wintry when one’s cold? That is right : ICIER
22-down – Plans raised for a meaty product : SPAM
23-down – Hollywood actress’s short dress : GARB

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

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