Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22707 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22707 clues and answers were published on Thu 19 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22707 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – As is pavillion : MISSPELT
9-across – Lord Greystoke’s company? : APEMEN
10-across – Colleague has a complaint : AGUE
11-across – Lone family chart found with harness : SINGLETREE
12-across – Top one fruit with another : ANANAS
14-across – Lectured by Wilton? : CARPETED
15-across – Port of New Orleans : SALERNO
17-across – More sounding additional, but not at Ascot : MORESCO
20-across – A European capitalist : BERLINER
22-across – Exercises lower bottom with movements : SITUPS
23-across – Fashionable people project glamour at one : GLITTERATI
24-across – The first law of diplomacy : TACT
25-across – Slum it as a kind of test : LITMUS
26-across – Hackman’s class breed : GENERATE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Lady with wolf for a partner : VIRGINIA
2-down – This man is one : ISLE
3-down – Count about eleven ends with South American : CENSUS
4-down – Minority group members hide in chest : ETHNICS
5-down – Jumper knitted from alar wool : WALLEROO
6-down – Clearance of a colony : SETTLEMENT
7-down – Admire a fast rider : REVERE
13-down – Record period taken to finish knitting : NEEDLETIME
16-down – Talk rubbish? On the contrary! : NONSENSE
18-down – Job of keeping lid on a large town : CAPACITY
19-down – Charge call to account : ARRAIGN
21-down – Pastry made for city home : ECLAIR
22-down – Sport of Kings without one, possibly : SKIING
24-down – Wear out tyre, reportedly : TIRE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22706 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22706 clues and answers were published on Wed 18 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22706 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Boxin’ ‘owdydo has a pantomime character : PUNCHINELLO
9-across – Unsettled air plus rebellion : UPRISAL
10-across – Alexander’s place for fellow on the staff : MACEDON
11-across – How many peers should be? Solve clue 10, taking notes : UNELECTED
12-across – The first two hundred painters are capital : ACCRA
13-across – Is common sense un-American? : NOUS
14-across – *Gunner : GRECIANURN
16-across – *Fruit for dog, say : MELANCHOLY
19-across – Feeble devil chasing his tail : LIMP
21-across – An agreement taking English as part of Current Affairs? : ANODE
22-across – Workers left out of joke : PEASANTRY
24-across – Hole for gold provided diamonds : ORIFICE
25-across – Check the flow: it must be reliable : STAUNCH
26-across – *It was spent by King Lear : NIGHTINGALE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Laureate for ever? It can’t be done : PERPETUALMOTION
2-down – Elizabethan writer from first to last beyond the pale? : NASHE
3-down – The case of the canonised queen coming after the break : HOLSTER
4-down – Read up about crazy individual that’s unsettled : NOMADIC
5-down – Sorry to get 24 hours off? : LACKADAY
6-down – Ken : OLDACQUAINTANCE
7-down – *Detail relative to keep inside : AUTUMN
8-down – No use having a home for peacocks? : INVAIN
15-down – Born student embraced by monarch is doing homage : KNEELING
16-down – Catty remark about a party in a field : MEADOW
17-down – Bearer of sword and its handle is about to live quietly : HIPBELT
18-down – Affair where one is embraced by a celebrity : LIAISON
20-down – *Subject of analysis : PSYCHE
23-down – Lizard makes Portuguese explorer lose his head : AGAMA

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22705 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22705 clues and answers were published on Tue 17 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22705 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – In my own country I may have baffled rural peasant! : JEANPAULSARTRE
9-across – Boy with inclination to eat food from Cambridgeshire? : STILTON
10-across – A time I get lost in navigation around foreign town : AVIGNON
11-across – Immigrant is looking both ways across middle of sea : ISSEI
12-across – Old emperor in overlapping desert expedition : RASTAFARI
13-across – Removing Head of State after revolution, rule badly : MISGOVERN
14-across – Staff try to increase score without making declaration : BATON
15-across – Behind the marble facade is city brownish? : TAWNY
17-across – To the advantage of country, sergeant-major shows obsession with correct procedure : FORMALISM
20-across – Astute as one is at bridge with viewers each side : HARDNOSED
22-across – Cold? Not under blanket! : COVER
23-across – Game allowed to be endless – has the ref lost it? : WHISTLE
24-across – Someone who used to live in the USSR won’t want son in a public school : ETONIAN
25-across – Carl’s going out with the dancer – she’s very young and he’s this? : CRADLESNATCHER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Entertaining lady – see me mixing with atheists, getting among believers : JESSIEMATTHEWS
2-down – Different labels giving a lassie a different look : ALIASES
3-down – Legacy from which one gets a cut – 25 quid, about : PATRIMONY
4-down – Upset serviceman loses leader before victory : UNNERVE
5-down – Actress making final appearance that’s no good : SWANSON
6-down – A gentleman getting up to accommodate a foreign lady : RAISA
7-down – Legislation to control activity instigated by letters : RENTACT
8-down – A name – name in certain rime, possibly : ANCIENTMARINER
14-down – Part of the business not allowed to broaden : BRANCHOUT
16-down – Arrow I shot – before the start of rifles? : WARRIOR
17-down – Wide-angled like lens or codpiece? : FISHEYE
18-down – Get hot and bothered about a commie cleric once : REDDEAN
19-down – Arrived before five? Almost three hours later! That’s Rail for you! : INVEIGH
21-down – Just one of the hacks becoming famous? : NOTED

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22704 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22704 clues and answers were published on Mon 16 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22704 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Falsely accused by FBI man about crash : FRAMED
4-across – Stick around at home like a dog : CANINE
9-across – Nymph who faded away normally comes back : ECHO
10-across – Fruit served by sergeant in mess : TANGERINES
11-across – Georgia admits relationship with Russian composer : GLINKA
12-across – Only men go in at such a meeting : ABUTMENT
13-across – A witness taking no part in the proceedings : BYSTANDER
15-across – The others coming from Latin and elsewhere : ETAL
16-across – Realise it’s a trick : SELL
17-across – Raise cost somehow, or get cut off : OSTRACISE
21-across – Delightful tea served with best china : CHARMING
22-across – Fragile copy : FLIMSY
24-across – Instrument requiring twice as much sound foundation : DOUBLEBASS
25-across – Country artist with an outstanding level of intelligence : IRAQ
26-across – Make a mistake and throw out the drink : SHERRY
27-across – Hit on an advertising catch phrase : SLOGAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Head of chemistry in wrong university department : FACULTY
2-down – A grain found in oak : ACORN
3-down – Net adjustment by water board : ENTRAIN
5-down – May it be described as a trunk road? : AVENUE
6-down – Crazy about Mum, in a manner of speaking : IDIOMATIC
7-down – Point learnt afresh, always to be remembered : ETERNAL
8-down – Diamond ring indicating one is unobtainable? : ENGAGEDSIGNAL
14-down – It’s only fair the board should accept new role : TOLERABLE
16-down – Teaches fishes swimming : SCHOOLS
18-down – Denial of a fault in the show ring : REFUSAL
19-down – Keep us up to the mark : SUSTAIN
20-down – Second mate in ship of the line : LINEAR
23-down – A piece of cake? But not to a pilot’s liking : ICING

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22702 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22702 clues and answers were published on Fri 13 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22702 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Bird taken out to lunch? : CUCKOO
6-across – Put up with what may be hard or cold : SHOULDER
9-across – Little time this time, a waste of time if caught? : MINNOW
10-across – Black person’s style in broadcast by waves? : SEAFRONT
11-across – Albert Steptoe – might I be told I’m randy? : DIRTYOLDMAN
15-across – Women bath us in a lather where clothes should be done : WASHTUB
17-across – Concubine offering fruit : SULTANA
18-across – As if by magic, bounder finds something to unfasten either side of him : ABRACADABRA
22-across – Fruit containing smashed mineral : GRAPHITE
23-across – Horse, non-starter, eating cold fruit : QUINCE
24-across – Application of light, result of flashing? : EXPOSURE
25-across – Fluid – a sample endlessly being circulated : PLASMA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Settlement: yours initially : COLONY
2-down – Use them in composition, so it’s notepaper : SHEETMUSIC
3-down – Having taken drugs, swimmer’s assistant is in a state for the sporting climax : CUPFINAL
4-down – 7 Paul Jones’ partner into scam : COMEDOWN
5-down – Liberal Democrat money goes to the right first : CENTRIST
7-down – A taste of relegation : DROP
8-down – Give a rocket speed : RATE
12-down – Wherein litmus may be a choice between red and blue? : LABORATORY
13-down – Swab soiled by somebody’s surgeon : SAWBONES
14-down – Dance with goddess around a bar : HABANERA
16-down – Leaves from here with trains on time : TEACHEST
19-down – Social security in social security : DOUBLE
20-down – Ill defined? Ill-defined a non-starter : AGUE
21-down – Temporary settlement affected : CAMP

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

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