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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22701 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22701 clues and answers were published on Thu 12 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22701 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Craft’s able to bridge a river : CATAMARAN
6-across – Shred of straw is paltry : WISP
10-across – It’s heads on American quarter and tails on thieves’ dog : LATIN
11-across – Spiny lobster becomes gelatinous without one : LANGOUSTE
12-across – First two swapped neckwear : BANDANA
13-across – Genuine problem for naive girl : INGENUE
14-across – To notice where chip can finish dish : TOADINTHEHOLE
17-across – Substitute for something binding in declaration : PRONOUNCEMENT
21-across – Take off a couple without it : IMITATE
22-across – Pain of my queenless country : MYALGIA
24-across – To jeer about prompting is conventional : BOURGEOIS
25-across – Still fit in less seconds : INERT
26-across – One stringing a line : TIER
27-across – Gut reaction : DYSENTERY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Single-minded? : CELIBATE
2-down – In retrospect, it answers the big one : TITAN
3-down – Thousand, plus one number, put in order for fruit : MANDARINORANGE
4-down – Trusting in later development : RELIANT
5-down – Civet cat lives and is protected : NANDINE
7-down – Elected because half were faked : INSINCERE
8-down – Like more money to pass on : PREFER
9-down – Cleaning room to sort out jumble : CONGLOMERATION
15-down – Well ground in hearing range : AMPLITUDE
16-down – Swipe your old underhand : STEALTHY
18-down – Once a pen : ONEFOLD
19-down – Literally any one in state’s downfall : NEMESIS
20-down – Place for hanging up large stake : GIBBET
23-down – Iceberg holds back diver : GREBE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22700 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22700 clues and answers were published on Wed 11 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22700 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Set sailor free : ABSOLUTE
5-across – Rough butcher has no time for baby-faced child : CHERUB
9-across – Acorn set to become start of tree : ANCESTOR
10-across – Country where I’m a lawbreaker? : MALAWI
11-across – Cool, pale source of illumination : FANLIGHT
12-across – Girl almost has a leg in each side : ASTRID
14-across – Birds nesting in some high places : PARTRIDGES
18-across – Bringing up workers in a religious environment : APICULTURE
22-across – Italian city in a police state : NAPOLI
23-across – American whose job is on the line : ENGINEER
24-across – Italian setting for gentlemen lovers : VERONA
25-across – The main threat to Venice: mad raid by heartless Greek : ADRIATIC
26-across – Ulster in turmoil for five years : LUSTRE
27-across – Islands more or less in the Caribbean : ANTILLES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A duchess’s place at Italian resort : AMALFI
2-down – One who got the silver back : SECOND
3-down – Girl told to come home : LASSIE
4-down – Eat hotpots rehashed – then use this : TOOTHPASTE
6-down – Top post! It’s the Admiral’s : HEADSHIP
7-down – Mad behaviour of people on the way : ROADRAGE
8-down – Drinking song sung on the 25? : BRINDISI
13-down – Old reptile flying near to pond : PTERANODON
15-down – Notting Hill’s, perhaps, can rival Rio’s : CARNIVAL
16-down – Place of ups and downs for the traveller : AIRPORTS
17-down – Joyce was one name on ship : DUBLINER
19-down – State car used by Italian resort : RIMINI
20-down – Bats in strange lament : MENTAL
21-down – They’re ruined!, said the King : WRECKS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22699 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22699 clues and answers were published on Tue 10 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22699 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Jazz legend’s hit with Apple Girl : GRAPPELLI
6-across – Society for high scoring marbles contenders : MENSA
9-across – Its flowers cluster among chrysanthemum, belladonna etc : UMBEL
10-across – None dying badly without doubt, there’s _____ : NODENYING
11-across – Hidden faults among Ali’s supporters? : FEETOFCLAY
12-across – Prime minister said to be candid : PEEL
14-across – Peter James’s valet and sometime chamber body : QUINTET
15-across – Old Left in a live broadcast: such should aid their aspirations… : ALVEOLI
17-across – … and are Old Left taking a bearing in pinkish circles? : AREOLAE
19-across – Right to fail in British school’s Russian course : BORTSCH
20-across – Bearing slash from sword : EPEE
22-across – One’s in the field to put Eton’s opponents on hold : RESTHARROW
25-across – Flame cutting into the moutarde? : INAMORATO
26-across – Woods burning with fearful symmetry? : TIGER
27-across – AA member on line, perhaps? : MILNE
28-across – They stick to nasty head wounds : ADHERENTS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Good collar for these billy goats? : GRUFF
2-down – That is Bedlam’s version of a Lakeland bottleneck : AMBLESIDE
3-down – Discussion between sessions of Congress? : PILLOWTALK
4-down – Monks’ brethren on the Italian rise in relief work : LINOCUT
5-down – The state of Jones, at home with Artemis in Rome : INDIANA
6-down – Many in port cut some ice by telekenesis : MIND
7-down – Simple northern welcome welcoming one : NAIVE
8-down – English FA members getting one in the net : ANGELFISH
13-down – See 6 : OVERMATTER
14-down – Fox’s way to question ‘is maker, possibly : QUAKERISM
16-down – Good testosterone, but no trial to discern her response to it! : OESTROGEN
18-down – Athene on rising takes morning for hot flushes : ENEMATA
19-down – The little woman’s going out with trash: give her a ring! : BETROTH
21-down – Message from Gallagher: ‘e’s making a comeback! : EMAIL
23-down – Invertebrates’ diet : WORMS
24-down – Successive notes from Gustave : DORE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22698 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22698 clues and answers were published on Mon 09 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22698 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Regulation 1 about guns : ORDINANCE
10-across – Game many take to following : LOTTO
11-across – Instrument one company of Irish nationalists rejected : OCARINA
12-across – Chanted one not unfamiliar to boy : INTONED
13-across – The drug addict’s dance? : TRIP
14-across – Cease agitation to colonise part of Ireland : SETTLEDOWN
16-across – Suitable head’s physical condition : FITNESS
17-across – Claim to be a girl of great power? : AMERICA
19-across – From now on, bird will go to church by river : HENCEFORTH
22-across – Boss lost in dust storm : STUD
24-across – Defeated by yarn : WORSTED
25-across – Act out angle on swimmer : CATFISH
26-across – Harangue, giving actor a terrible part : ORATE
27-across – Filled with admiration by one point on forward play? : AWESTRUCK

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Still in some danger from bottled beer? : NOTOUTOFTHEWOOD
2-down – He may not be practical in laying the notion on the table : IDEALIST
3-down – Block found in African village : ANVIL
4-down – Undoes order to slave to run off first : UNRAVELS
5-down – Survivor finds souvenir on table top : RELICT
6-down – Praised apartment to deter alteration : FLATTERED
7-down – Drink for smart circle : STINGO
8-down – First gave former workmen fish as compensation for loss of job : GOLDENHANDSHAKE
15-down – A number observed outside happening : SEVENTEEN
17-down – Objects to new recitals : ARTICLES
18-down – Puzzle of underhand plot : INTRIGUE
20-down – Ordinary girl with large head : NORMAL
21-down – Test alternative arrangement : ORDEAL
23-down – Condition made by the civil power : STATE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22696 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22696 clues and answers were published on Fri 06 Dec 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22696 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – People with arms, which move rapidly along the ground : SHOOTERS
9-across – : POIROT
10-across – Vehicle with runner left in southern limit : SLEDGE
11-across – Takes the Express? : ENTRAINS
12-across – Worker at end of leave gets advance payment : ANTE
13-across – Chess rival I overturned, lacking small courtesies : CHIVALRIES
15-across – Drunkenly, I echo The Queen in a toast : CHEERIO
16-across – Great people accommodated in dilapidated semi? : IMMENSE
18-across – North Sea rowing unsettled these people : NORWEGIANS
19-across – Ruth, born at Lincoln? : BABE
20-across – Get down to remove picture from setting? : DISMOUNT
22-across – : HOLMES
23-across – Local returning books about State : TAVERN
24-across – Bug or nettle to cause sting : IRRITATE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Kind of twisting hill path on Capri : PHILANTHROPICAL
2-down – : LORDPETERWIMSEY
3-down – Asking to observe man in church? On the contrary! : BESEECHING
4-down – Cites, perhaps, in account of person living austerely : ASCETIC
5-down – Fix exact position : SPOT
6-down – Object to power showing signs of unpleasantness : DISAGREEABILITY
7-down – Second themes in fugues could be bar-room topics : COUNTERSUBJECTS
14-down – Mood shown by doctor with specialisation : ATMOSPHERE
17-down – Enthusiast to follow pigeon : FANTAIL
21-down – Bone with a little useful name : ULNA

This crossword has in total 24 where 14 are across and 10 are down.

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