Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22666 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22666 clues and answers were published on Fri 01 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22666 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – No way! A trainee soldier needs one for remembrance : NOSTALGIA
10-across – Egg producer wants nothing to change : OVARY
11-across – Hand that’s straightening things out, reportedly : WRITING
12-across – Storage space for the ministers : CABINET
13-across – Papers resorting to smear tactics? : REAMS
14-across – Eager to change fellows thought at first to be in accord : AGREEMENT
16-across – People from Calais and Cracow join in grand wood activity : FRENCHPOLISHING
19-across – Pass judgement on one held inside with sensitivity : SENTIENCE
21-across – Office worker with time to prepare lure : TEMPT
22-across – Fifty hold out after sailor returns with iron pigs : BALLAST
23-across – Goodbye, little sausage! : CHEERIO
24-across – Bender being moved? : BINGE
25-across – Frank dined with the contestant : CANDIDATE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Steamship taking this time to float into frozen hazards : SNOWDRIFTS
2-down – Speak with force like Hook, for example : ASPIRATE
3-down – Graduate thus starting to study the fundamentals : BASICS
4-down – Past generation initially impatient to get going : AGOG
5-down – Bach said to be on a roll with composer’s penultimate boat song : BARCAROLLE
6-down – The last people to get drinks? : COBBLERS
7-down – Indian born to pussyfoot? : PAWNEE
8-down – A pathological sac, said Sister, with no hesitation : CYST
14-down – Staff supplies found after plane crash : ALPENSTOCK
15-down – Drunk stays below, where few can walk straight lines : TIGHTROPES
17-down – I take chances around bends : CHICANES
18-down – Incorruptible? I’m only human! : IMMORTAL
20-down – Partners inside only changed leg wear : NYLONS
21-down – This includes points for a dissertation : THESIS
22-down – Little one is produced by degrees : BABE
23-down – Council’s top social worker is not able to : CANT

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22665 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22665 clues and answers were published on Thu 31 Oct 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22665 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Get up off yours and cheer on the team! : BACKSIDE
9-across – Something suspicious smelt returns to pinch one crown : TIARA
10-across – Revolutionary Guardian rebels – editor’s heading off to the right to find himself : ALAN
11-across – See 10 : RUSBRIDGER
12-across – Potential downfall of family requiring asylum? : BANANA
14-across – One caught by the actual crime : THIEVERY
15-across – Ruddy British abroad about to retreat : REDOUBT
17-across – Curtly announce that you’re not having any more vegetable : SHALLOT
20-across – Heady mixture of pale and chic : CEPHALIC
22-across – Work that’s outstanding, we hear, was a joke for a thousand drachmas a day : ODEONA
23-across – See 23 : GRECIANURN
24-across – Retiring satisfied with oneself, with toothless grin : GUMS
25-across – Fliers in pub sent round for a costly fiddle : STRAD
26-across – Pouting, having to blow instrument held the wrong way round : PETULANT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – It shouldn’t be dangerous, but note: one false move … : FAILSAFE
2-down – See 12 : SKIN
3-down – Range of Ford models? : SIERRA
4-down – Blackwidow.com? : WEBSITE
5-down – The marine creature is fairly quick, according to Spooner : STARFISH
6-down – Say you naughty beast in farewell to the variety show : VAUDEVILLE
7-down – Calling for speed : CAREER
13-down – Old drug dealer offers a drug to man, Grant : APOTHECARY
16-down – Fat couch potato standing around, causing an obstruction to motorists : BOLLARDS
18-down – Date lacks a very soft, soothing influence : OINTMENT
19-down – Strong drink in free-for-all at artless get-together : SCRUMPY
21-down – P-Prokofiev turns up appearing way out : EGRESS
22-down – Speak about point that’s embellished : ORNATE
24-down – Catch bird : GULL

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22664 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22664 clues and answers were published on Wed 30 Oct 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22664 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Bird on a plate – but he flew in the past : ALCOCK
4-across – Ambitious worker goes to Paris for a change : ASPIRANT
9-across – Fellows need help in getting her : MAIDEN
10-across – Name a ship after Joyce, perhaps : DUBLINER
11-across – Where Rupert is too conservative? : BEHINDTHETIMES
13-across – He maintains frequency by rescheduling one up train : PIANOTUNER
14-across – A French officer is unusual : UNCO
16-across – Drive is something in our genes : URGE
18-across – Drake’s boat could be adapted for youth transport : SKATEBOARD
21-across – Old time coppers? : BEATGENERATION
23-across – One sample carries exceptional load of sin : IDOLATRY
24-across – Memory recalled drink – spirit : MORALE
25-across – Discernment of age trouble with shelter to the old : EAGLEEYE
26-across – How a Cockney says he works with this : ARDOUR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Handout for a defunct railway : ALMS
2-down – Monster – we must have him taken into care somehow : CHIMERA
3-down – False direction gets one lost in town : CREDITON
5-down – Blow one’s top in it? : SOUTHWESTER
6-down – Where tenants may be up creeks : INLETS
7-down – Swiss banker takes on an extra name : AGNOMEN
8-down – Numbers reject Euro to delay entry : THRESHOLD
12-down – Saturnalia could be gory : DRUNKENORGY
13-down – Lead on a string : PLUMBLINE
15-down – A club to take up church teaching? It’s for killing : ABATTOIR
17-down – This with means to support : GOALONG
19-down – Trouble after a small case of fruit : AVOCADO
20-down – Father’s relative has his name in stone : AGNATE
22-down – Prophet sounds dry and withered : SEER

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22663 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22663 clues and answers were published on Tue 29 Oct 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22663 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Gainsay headmaster reorganising schools : GYMNASIA
9-across – It’s difficult to get model aroused : THORNY
10-across – End of Guinness barrel, or of cigarette : STUB
11-across – Washing over – consequently gain forgiveness : ABSOLUTION
12-across – Rig out for soiree of sorrow : GRIEVE
14-across – Solemn air of old king rolling species of cannabis : GRAVITAS
15-across – Farewell to artist returning to the mountain : ARARAT
17-across – Dined, consuming barrel of pitch properly : ATTUNE
20-across – China has many an ornamental garden : CROCKERY
22-across – A case of silence stifling passion : SHEATH
23-across – Soda-server is absorbing Mahler’s First and Tchaikovsky’s : SYMPHONIST
24-across – Animal utterance involving trunk? : BARK
25-across – Demonstrative about alien goddess : THETIS
26-across – Overcome by exhaustion, so debated a treatment : DEADBEAT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Suffering this year from psychiatric disorder : HYSTERIA
2-down – Some think no better bit of butter can be found : KNOB
3-down – With a will unopened, what’s left in it? : ESTATE
4-down – Reliable tool hoisted in the beginning : STALWART
5-down – Do your bit, being sorry about second-rate turn : CONTRIBUTE
6-down – An ape’s ill, missing a rabbit : ANGORA
8-down – Post in the form of an omen : ASSIGN
13-down – Free terrorists snap title up : EMANCIPATE
16-down – What’s got into a parasite at the pub? : ALEHOUSE
18-down – Immortal carrying Cross inside and outside : EXTERNAL
19-down – Helpless dairymaid raised a great many : MYRIAD
21-down – Initially rock hard, yet the Hammersmith Mauler gets beat : RHYTHM
22-down – Belt encircling a tyrant : SATRAP
24-down – Live without a seaman’s doll : BABE

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22662 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22662 clues and answers were published on Mon 28 Oct 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22662 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Girl on the road can be unfriendly : UNAMIABLE
10-across – Regret swathing church in frilly cloth : RUCHE
11-across – Disputed mineral colour : SPARRED
12-across – Got up after meal to get a flower : TEAROSE
13-across – Liturgy that sounds in order : RITE
14-across – Dessert for attractive girl singer : PEACHMELBA
16-across – Most difficult animal carrying little boy : HARDEST
17-across – He gives warning to senior pupil : MONITOR
19-across – Sailor to keep going round with vocalist : NELSONEDDY
22-across – I’m having second thoughts on children … : IMPS
24-across – … one of whom spoiled duet as charged : IMPUTED
25-across – Wonder about first engagement, if forced to make a second bequest : REENDOW
26-across – Love to have a morning to see round old city : AMOUR
27-across – One holding back a muscle : RETRACTOR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Disadvantage for young person in a race? : NURSERYHANDICAP
2-down – Tobacco tin decorated with a flower : CANASTER
3-down – Joint headdress : MITRE
4-down – Carrying out orders to debit one, perhaps : OBEDIENT
5-down – Thus odd pet is held to be infected : SEPTIC
6-down – What doctor ordered for the management : TREATMENT
7-down – Decoration in small capitals at top of list : SCROLL
8-down – Perpetual peace unwelcome to a compiler, perhaps : NEVERACROSSWORD
15-down – They write stories about drinks : REPORTERS
17-down – Regulate the cost of fashion? : MODERATE
18-down – Timothy’s one song sung with bashfulness : TIMIDITY
20-down – Friend turning to follow pet : LAPDOG
21-down – Final flower made to last : ENDURE
23-down – Leaps round part of flower : SEPAL

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

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