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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22640 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22640 clues and answers were published on Wed 02 Oct 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22640 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – How some feminists have got it to a nicety, I tell you : INFORMANT
6-across – Feeble specimen of Mayfair politician : WIMP
10-across – Destiny of Eros is about right : KARMA
11-across – 22 stream, a term employed at university : ALMAMATER
12-across – Old memento of rare liqueur : RELIQUE
13-across – This and this for American hero of mythology : THESEUS
14-across – Play by members on Indian islands with change of central article : ARMSANDTHEMAN
17-across – 9 backing for aberrant walrus in standard campaign, 22 or earlier : PENINSULARWAR
21-across – Aesthetically pleasing jumbo with gravity for acidity? : ELEGANT
22-across – Russian beginning of Russian novel : CRIMEAN
24-across – 22 hood in lake : BALACLAVA
25-across – Did Shakespeare say it twice at his marriage? : IWILL
26-across – Not a Jew, a painter : GOYA
27-across – Breathing problem affected my sheep to a degree : EMPHYSEMA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Chap who helped with the printing in 22 action? : INKERMAN
2-down – Queen in Cornish river’s gone native : FERAL
3-down – Getting 7 again to care worker with the odd broken cane : REACQUAINTANCE
4-down – Finished andante con moto : ATANEND
5-down – Cat – chat is translated accordingly : TOMATCH
7-down – Aware of what’s happening with no Ken to help : INTHEKNOW
8-down – Capital H for home base? : PARISH
9-down – I wave – interrupting myself with skill – to show no chance of leaks : IMPERMEABILITY
15-down – Lyme paper provided guide through meadow to park in Nottingham : MAPPERLEY
16-down – Actor with quinsy gets silk from dunnock : PRUNELLA
18-down – Shell for kook : NUTCASE
19-down – Release Cleopatra’s killer after relative is docked : UNCLASP
20-down – Insect found in Russian river, on the bottom : BEDBUG
23-down – One left in river, not in the country : EXILE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22636 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22636 clues and answers were published on Fri 27 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22636 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Queen introduced to man previously : GRUYERE
5-across – Boy hides list : STILTON
10-across – Lawyer tucked into mutton : EDAM
11-across – A rep diverted in unresponsive situation : CAERPHILLY
12-across – Permit covers local singer : LINNET
13-across – Cheat collected energy in alternative measuring device : ODOMETER
14-across – Left tribute unfinished : PORTSALUT
16-across – Bob’s lofty hedge : STALL
17-across – It’s elementary : QUARK
19-across – Spur, spur and finally spur : LIMBURGER
23-across – Censure covers half-hearted forces : PARMESAN
24-across – Young rogue endlessly tottering : URCHIN
26-across – Ursula also recreated ancient creatures : ALLOSAURUS
27-across – Union member loses money : BRIE
28-across – Fellow film director gets decoration for play : FREEDOM
29-across – Set about old devil in the backstreet : SNICKET

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Perch on equipment overlooking old composer : RODRIGO
3-down – Enemy devastated country : YEMEN
4-down – Girl kept fingerstall : RICOTTA
6-down – It’s best to overturn child’s toy : TIPTOP
7-down – Young saxophonist eating dessert : LEICESTER
8-down – Painting’s deeply boring : OILWELL
9-down – Rare Darwinian novel : REVOLUTIONARY
15-down – Become a clot, spilling some broth : THROMBOSE
18-down – Doctor allured Orcadian estate holder : UDALLER
20-down – Container holds something belonging to us : BOURSIN
21-down – Oriental to risk concealing condition of building : EDIFICE
22-down – One tucked into a pudding : ASIAGO
25-down – Accountant’s horse rolled over : CABOC

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22635 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22635 clues and answers were published on Thu 26 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22635 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Frenzy about maggot returning to Canadian province : MANITOBA
5-across – Money church got back for cake : ECLAIR
9-across – Muscle up, improbably, with equipment for internal investigation : SPECULUM
10-across – Vulgar report about the Italian fabric : BURLAP
11-across – Far from simple book about artist’s materials : TOILSOME
12-across – Beer buffs, given time, returning to surface : TARMAC
14-across – Serb gutter press working here? : GRUBSTREET
18-across – Tutee with IQ10 confused by cyberspace protocol : NETIQUETTE
22-across – Logo with spaces for inclusion of Belgium and Luxembourg : EMBLEM
23-across – Legal eagle missing turn at jousting match : ATTORNEY
24-across – Follower of Louis XV – or of French winter sport? : DELUGE
25-across – Brownish haze previously arousing suspicion : MISTRUST
26-across – Lord of old to acquire gismo : GADGET
27-across – Reversal of setback keeps one in the frame : ESPALIER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Compiler compiled on a plateau : MESETA
2-down – Mental activity is pre-empted by votes against : NOESIS
3-down – Saw to reform of desanctified 25 : TRUISM
4-down – It’s screamed by bird in pop group with raised colour : BLUEMURDER
6-down – Something to go with the curry? : CHUPATTI
7-down – Arm and leg I’m breaking with a twinkle : AGLIMMER
8-down – Blame a financial institution’s greed : RAPACITY
13-down – It’s the midwife’s business to provide baby’s first sister with cot : OBSTETRICS
15-down – Don’t cook enough goulash, initially, for the outsider : UNDERDOG
16-down – Put out, drained and unshaven : STUBBLED
17-down – Understand about queen’s surprised remark to cleaner : SQUEEGEE
19-down – Haven I supplied to a Shakespearean : PORTIA
20-down – Incorporated universal : INCUBI
21-down – Reputed aphrodisiac in the world of proverb : OYSTER

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22634 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22634 clues and answers were published on Wed 25 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22634 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Sectarian turns 23 with time : BIGOT
4-across – How to behave in religious home? : HONESTLY
8-across – Letters of agreement : CORRESPONDENCE
10-across – New overcoat inducing development of form … : EVOCATOR
11-across – … and kind of jacket with back to front characteristics : STRAIT
12-across – It’s exclusive East German xenophobia : OSTRACISM
15-across – Rush without starting to be modest : HASTE
17-across – Boy catches one out : FIRED
18-across – They entertain a tourist on board : STRIPPERS
19-across – Professional opinion of a scheme lacking point : ADVICE
21-across – A planter involved in nurturing seed : PARENTAL
24-across – Sequel to England expects…? : BIRTHOFANATION
25-across – Row with leader appears in the press : HEADLINE
26-across – It’s a bore, so agree to differ : EAGRE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Chorale transposed in key for a soloist? : BACHELORFLAT
2-down – Corruption in order is a killer : GARROTTER
3-down – Overseas letter from the volunteer force? : THETA
4-down – Synthetic drugs are perhaps not physic : HYPNOTICS
5-down – River bird : NENE
6-down – We sat around quietly to work? Not here : SWEATSHOP
7-down – Fabric made up in the form of a circular cylinder : LYCRA
9-down – What a librarian may do and hope to get : UTTERSILENCE
13-down – Without Kitty, Jack croaked and gave up : ABDICATED
14-down – Covering false alarm caused jam : MARMALADE
16-down – False clues, missing first object in investigation : SLEUTHING
20-down – This could be active in vice ring : VOICE
22-down – Yarn about the Euro to raise the spirits : ELATE
23-down – Soldier died in the wilderness : GOBI

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22633 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22633 clues and answers were published on Tue 24 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22633 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – A miss from August and, with time, a miss from Will : JULIET
4-across – Notables then, not-ables now? : HASBEENS
9-across – R loves me whole-heartedly! : ROMEO
10-across – Cast aggressively before fish in fine feathers : FLINGDOWN
11-across – Dethrone and sit on one dangerously : DISANOINT
12-across – Accommodation with hot water in Yorkshire : HOUSE
13-across – Unravelling a logic, denser as compressed would you say? : CLOSEGRAINED
17-across – Subtle St Michael, the Destroyer : THEALCHEMIST
20-across – Bad odour has the prince leaving the platform : ODIUM
21-across – Forms of public transport by the Tiber, say : RHOMBUSES
23-across – Certain an assortment is sent? : INATRANCE
24-across – Energy backing the last word in irrigation : ENEMA
25-across – They are hot and cold around the Southwark and Lambeth area : CHILLIES
26-across – Takes trouble with daughter? Cousins did! : SKATED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – One or the other litigated in 22 12 to preserve North Aberdeen airport : JARNDYCE
2-down – Blair ignoring Tyneside to hold service in Cyprus : LIMASSOL
3-down – Remove old oil refinery in some measure : ELOIN
5-down – America’s epistolist with a satiric look East, perhaps : ALISTAIRCOOKE
6-down – One assuming the lead in The Mousetrap? : BIGCHEESE
7-down – Book the return passage : EXODUS
8-down – Donne’s topped in a way by something of Petrarch’s : SONNET
10-down – Part of 9 and 1 across ravaging ie rural France : FRIARLAURENCE
14-down – Fugitive with a record : EPHEMERAL
15-down – Wasted time after she didn’t marry the writer : MISSPENT
16-down – How oral evidence is presented, apparently : ITISSAID
18-down – Old Ford’s highly placed houses : ZODIAC
19-down – Caribbean characters promoted in surrealist’s festival : DIWALI
22-down – Barren black betrayal : BLEAK

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

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