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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22683 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22683 clues and answers were published on Thu 21 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22683 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

5-across – Stand to take drugs – take too many? : TRIPOD
6-across – Young animal entertaining the graduate element : COBALT
9-across – Pet’s low note breaks silence : SMOOCH
10-across – Having no memory of deceased cat swallowing 4 : OBLIVION
11-across – Raise rump : REAR
12-across – Turning to a sea mist for supplier of 22s : METASTASIO
13-across – John returned in atmosphere of uncertainty : AMBIVALENCE
18-across – Stolen drug found among churches’ jumble : HOTCHPOTCH
21-across – Clothes to boast about : GARB
22-across – Roving Rob – title of book : LIBRETTO
23-across – Get back! Sit! Again! : RETAKE
24-across – Fired indiscriminately at catalogue : LITANY
25-across – Wanderers keep escaping! : BOLTON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Novel about to record artist’s weight : KILOGRAM
2-down – Secured enthusiast for scene of folly : GOTHAM
3-down – Mix fuel essence, losing money in Japan : COALESCE
4-down – Sage raised cry of woe about shrinking violet : SALVIA
5-down – Interfere with packer : TAMPER
7-down – Cancer, say, left over one hundred : TROPIC
8-down – Device torn apart in explanatory text : CONTRAPTION
14-down – Temptation? No, ta! Drunk and unable to respond : IMPOTENT
15-down – Fool wearing garment gains energy from muse : COGITATE
16-down – Gregarious agents in the sun : SOCIAL
17-down – Defective gun’s all right inside : BROKEN
19-down – Copper to upbraid churchman : CURATE
20-down – Leader of Levites in the Pentateuch picked up Jezebel : HARLOT

This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22682 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22682 clues and answers were published on Wed 20 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22682 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – I am a brute – the odds are steep : IMBUE
4-across – For those who have to eat their hats? : PORKPIES
8-across – Giving value for money, T.H.White’s work on model girl is producing 4 across : ECONOMICALWITH
10-across – New Year, when the scene is immaterial : ANYWHERE
11-across – Condition of the left in Ted’s grip : HEALTH
12-across – Far from pristine outbuilding on lake island : TARNISHED
15-across – A lark damaged the village : KRAAL
17-across – Theme to select: abolition of the monarchy? : TOPIC
18-across – Scheme to get the lowdown on some cyclist’s reported clanger : PLANGENCY
19-across – Is medium in time to give alarm? : DISMAY
21-across – See 8 : THETRUTH
24-across – : TERMINOLOGICAL
25-across – Bachelor studies, having a wife for preparing food : BREADSAW
26-across – Wait with viscosity : TARRY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – See 24 : INEXACTITUDE
2-down – Political group’s blunder backfiring may be cause of unexpected explosion : BOOBYTRAP
3-down – Manage to put back the hour on time : EPOCH
4-down – Religious post for naval leader? : PRIORSHIP
5-down – Wander to the end of the road, say? : ROAM
6-down – Dew shaken into first part of 4 across, say, may be cause of explosion : POWDERKEG
7-down – Praise from former partner to student : EXTOL
9-down – Can’t decide if foolish girl’s drunk? : SHILLYSHALLY
13-down – Not enough blood here: I get half with tea in it first : ISCHAEMIA
14-down – Poor old hat web gets the coup de grace : DEATHBLOW
16-down – Broadcaster in a year with some doubt : ANNOUNCER
20-down – Weapon used by the Mint? : SPEAR
22-down – One over the eight? A near thing : TIGHT
23-down – The responsibility is America’s : ONUS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22681 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22681 clues and answers were published on Tue 19 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22681 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Bit of caterpillar? Part filling for empty pig : PROLEG
5-across – Earlier audience’s support : BEFORE
8-across – A problem caused by overexposing paper flower : SUNBURN
9-across – Initially, time zone in country can get one wrong-footed : WALTZES
11-across – Corporation boss revealed as radio neglecter, potentially bringing in revenue, primarily? : DIRECTORGENERAL
12-across – Yob to embrace, wanting love : THUG
13-across – Contradictory girl I had rejected – naughty liar! : DISSIMILAR
17-across – Now hardly a revolutionary artist? : ANDYWARHOL
18-across – Oriental soldiers providing rare protection : EGIS
20-across – Don’t flog cartoonist’s caricature – hide away! : KEEPALOWPROFILE
23-across – Arrange to get sample revealing disease in horse : DOURINE
24-across – Spooner’s to stash away a little bit from the winning amount : JACKPOT
25-across – What may bring illness to place : PLAGUE
26-across – Student dashes off line to get lucrative job : EARNER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Grabbing woman, rector and canon behave promiscuously : RUNAROUND
3-down – Meal to seal a book’s introduction to the world? : LAUNCH
4-down – Man with craft working old region : GONDOLIER
5-down – Get hairy before court appearance? : BEWIG
6-down – Designation of computer characters mostly photographed, including girl : FILENAME
7-down – One who exalts, it’s said, a traditional implement : RAZOR
8-down – Distracted team given homily to listen to : SIDETRACKED
10-down – Sense of own dignity: less perfect, possibly : SELFRESPECT
14-down – English people’s joy excited jumper : SLOPPYJOE
15-down – Appealing desperately for a little extra in the Bronx? : LAGNIAPPE
16-down – Rock is without musical taste – and there’s bad language : SWEARING
19-down – I’ll deal with pipe, supplying special cover to insulate one : VOICER
21-down – She qualified – has uniform : EQUAL
22-down – Plant you fed to cattle mostly : OXEYE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22680 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22680 clues and answers were published on Mon 18 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22680 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Moral code followed by a student : ETHICAL
5-across – Travel over snow is accepted by some retired people : ESKIMOS
10-across – Girl is to accept religious instruction : IRIS
11-across – Building constructed with joints in natural colouring : PROPERTIES
12-across – Office desk : BUREAU
13-across – Maintained a high level : TOPPEDUP
14-across – Three-card trick has been given a licence : CHARTERED
16-across – Navy prison : FLEET
17-across – Female undergarments, possibly bloomers : SLIPS
19-across – Mistress has care of one whelp among nine : CONCUBINE
23-across – Bitter sweet : ACIDDROP
24-across – An actor not working? Provide compensation! : OFFSET
26-across – Ordered home before becoming unwell : INDISPOSED
27-across – Fit a spring : WELL
28-across – Send me round to eastern land : DEMESNE
29-across – Lecture put on at short notice : ADDRESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Finished, being nothing less than painstaking : THROUGH
3-down – Outgoing children : ISSUE
4-down – A stubborn worker seen around river vessel : AMPOULE
6-down – Companion of Snow White likely to crash? : SLEEPY
7-down – Pregnant member of society : INTHECLUB
8-down – The excessive utilisation of various oeuvres : OVERUSE
9-down – Declare all points in order : BOXTHECOMPASS
15-down – Frier paid off with speedy discharge : RAPIDFIRE
18-down – Permit excessive behaviour? : LICENCE
20-down – Full of humanity : CROWDED
21-down – Wants to be out of the French sewers : NEEDLES
22-down – Saw the head for an examination : TREPAN
25-down – We infer a reduction in numbers : FEWER

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22678 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22678 clues and answers were published on Fri 15 Nov 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22678 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Sherpa’s old vehicle? : HILLMAN
8-across – A quiet entertainment outside is less expensive : CHEAPER
10-across – Game that brings credit to pulpit : CRAMEO
11-across – Bird with urge to find flower : LARKSPUR
12-across – Young man inexperienced with a gun : COLT
13-across – Invaded cache or den, perhaps : ENCROACHED
14-across – Play up your street? : ASYOULIKEIT
19-across – Players I kept in and chastised : CASTIGATED
22-across – Head to ask for views : POLL
23-across – Card game played in the theatre? : PATIENCE
24-across – Acted without restraint when young rowdy goes to city abroad : RIOTED
25-across – See letter by essayist on flower : LOBELIA
26-across – Erased document about the French model : DELETED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Entertainer producing terribly ripe rubbish : PIERROT
2-down – Plant to make cat smile : CLEMATIS
3-down – Standard Spanish expression for word of honour : PAROLE
4-down – Daily woman with hair like a weed : CHARLOCK
5-down – Analyse carbon from a great distance : PARSEC
6-down – Sent as agent and set in action : DEPUTED
9-down – Obstruct landlord, perhaps, in obtaining capital : BLOCKLETTER
15-down – Material causing publication to give up : ORGANDIE
16-down – Child wandered about and felt better : IMPROVED
17-down – Welsh lake not about to become a much larger one : BALATON
18-down – An inactive coach? : SLEEPER
20-down – Material found by model in bathroom : TOILET
21-down – Girl heard in a monk’s bedroom ? : DORTER

This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.

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