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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22626 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22626 clues and answers were published on Mon 16 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22626 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – A strong hand in clubs : BOUNCER
5-across – Sort of pastry brought round to spoil the appetite : PUTOFF
9-across – Light equipment for miner and motorist : HEADLAMP
10-across – Fat, it is said, of the land : GREECE
12-across – Suitable fruit for queen of puddings? : VICTORIAPLUM
15-across – One who sticks at his job and mails his account? : BILLPOSTER
17-across – Inspired piece of music : AIR
19-across – Essay that won’t be pointless : TRY
20-across – He crashed awkwardly before the end of the race – bad luck! : HARDCHEESE
22-across – Too eager to press for expulsion from chambers : TRIGGERHAPPY
26-across – Wild kids grow up to be adults like these : IBEXES
27-across – It warrants attack, but there must be no cheating in it : FAIRGAME
28-across – The most logical form of assent : SANEST
29-across – Get browned off with a chap on the Circle Line? : TANGENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Pick up the bill, a case for hard foreign currency : BAHT
2-down – State university raising capital investment : UTAH
3-down – Invitation that is about work inspires poets : CALLIOPE
4-down – Right! Breathe out and relax! : REMIT
6-down – Ignorant and under a misconception : UNREAD
7-down – Put on too much weight : OVERLOADED
8-down – Plenty of suckers at this trading centre? : FLEAMARKET
11-down – One in favour of half-day closing : FRIEND
13-down – Practice of making personal deliveries : OBSTETRICS
14-down – Flying saucer? : CLAYPIGEON
16-down – They include a case for those seeking a rise : STAIRS
18-down – Guard of honour : CHAPERON
21-down – Is of one mind about grease : AGREES
23-down – A huge shipping order? : AVAST
24-down – Found to be contemptible : BASE
25-down – Punch about the body : BELT

This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22624 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22624 clues and answers were published on Fri 13 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22624 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Wrong assessment – sounds like some error : MISCALCULATION
9-across – Send Giles revised stuff that’s recently arisen : SEEDLINGS
10-across – Spirit bottle : NERVE
11-across – Crash resonated after parking : PRANG
12-across – Pot shot at poorly reproduced copy : PHOTOSTAT
13-across – Proposal made public – press no good? : OVERTURE
14-across – Its wicked and may get stick : CANDLE
17-across – Terrible run with flu? Stop being wound up : UNFURL
19-across – State a kind of beetle : COLORADO
22-across – Extremities of nail broken in certain conditions : TERMINALS
24-across – It’s a question of publication : ISSUE
25-across – Part that’s to be sent is overweight : OBESE
26-across – Programme of activities? Of course! : CURRICULA
27-across – How to weed? Do so boldly! : GRASPTHENETTLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Top Russian company MD ordered standardised manufacture : MASSPRODUCTION
2-down – Discipline servant responsible for leaking : SEEPAGE
3-down – Provider of river snap? : ALLIGATOR
4-down – Plan to study the church feature : CONSPIRE
5-down – Not so much happening – an instructive exercise : LLSSON
6-down – The dance to beat work : TANGO
7-down – Danish physicist with energy sorted out : OERSTED
8-down – The food should be OK until then : BESTBEFOREDATE
15-down – Native of Australia with roots in Lincoln : ABORIGINE
16-down – Infer UN escort is to be moved : CONSTRUE
18-down – Refrain in reference to an animal : FORBEAR
20-down – Attack man in a way : ASSAULT
21-down – Grandma’s cottage has charm : MASCOT
23-down – Articles by one on a river, we hear : ITEMS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22623 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22623 clues and answers were published on Thu 12 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22623 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Cosmetic exercise for all to see in Pope’s action? : BEAUTIFICATION
9-across – One can tell when a pupil isn’t working : OCULIST
10-across – Putting money on a dog is commonly practised : CURRENT
11-across – Someone in uniform teased within earshot : GUIDE
12-across – Beginning to go below, prisoner brought in explosive : GUNPOWDER
13-across – Most in street upset about awful din : TRENDIEST
14-across – Beg President to take precedence : PLEAD
15-across – Very big vehicle may be what film actor is after : OSCAR
17-across – Twenty years ago Labour MPs were downtrodden! : UNDERFOOT
20-across – Sort of food thing covered in grain : WHITEMEAT
22-across – Bread no longer available across the Channel : FRANC
23-across – Went berserk in diatribe about Brazilian city : RANRIOT
24-across – Composer of operas using percussion instrument in one : BELLINI
25-across – To be unseeing, to somehow keep necessarily quiet : BITEONESTONGUE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Like some of the accountant’s figures presented for discussion : BROUGHTFORWARD
2-down – Vulgar American four entertained by their President no longer : ABUSIVE
3-down – One not expected to score is emotional about excellent half-century : TAILENDER
4-down – Lard that is besetting bloke mostly responsible for enervation : FATIGUE
5-down – Clown, eccentric – one of a lovely bunch? : COCONUT
6-down – Trunk coming from gnarled roots : TORSO
7-down – Late deliveries on the field – water on the ground, we hear? : OVERDUE
8-down – Various pieces in street I coveted, but he may have deterred me! : STOREDETECTIVE
14-down – Case getting left with female bits and pieces : PORTFOLIO
16-down – Upright character in church opposing drink : CHIANTI
17-down – Left after dinner? : UNEATEN
18-down – Something in computer – a bit sticking up, almost broken : DATABUS
19-down – Old sailor performing on a soapbox? : ORATING
21-down – Type size for characters used in the literature : ELITE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22621 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22621 clues and answers were published on Tue 10 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22621 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Vehicle going fast with Shell : CARAPACE
5-across – Loathsome leader with blemish surrounding his name : STALIN
9-across – Visionary professional? : OPTICIAN
10-across – People led astray by a botanist : MENDEL
12-across – Modern name for city with a bridge problem : KALININGRAD
15-across – Expression of surprise about a publication in Ulster : OMAGH
17-across – De la Mare’s audience : LISTENERS
18-across – What guest without wedding garment does to get rebuke? : DRESSDOWN
19-across – Musical drama cost a bundle : TOSCA
20-across – Unpleasant fluids pouring over palate : DISTASTEFUL
24-across – A yarn told without sympathy : CREWEL
25-across – Stork frequently seen in a mess : ADJUTANT
26-across – It’s brave to dress in drag : DARING
27-across – To ban fashion in dress is dull : DRABNESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Club with clergy membership : CROCKFORDS
2-down – After reverse, Gordius – inter alia – gets his own back : RETALIATES
3-down – Bird parts with a pound for a nut : PECAN
4-down – Heroes’ lunch – a soup full of bones : CHARNELHOUSE
6-down – Passes into the river – and most with it : TRENDIEST
7-down – Boy found with unknown woman : LADY
8-down – Girl hearing sound of bell : NELL
11-down – Bird gets dodgy reward for a screw : PRISONWARDER
13-down – A prig feels awkward at mickey-taking : PERSIFLAGE
14-down – Race is set with one old king mounted… : ISRAELITES
16-down – … zealous one of the 14 has an idea – for negotiation? : HASIDAEAN
21-down – It sometimes comes under the hammer : THUMB
22-down – Tart gets help to entrap church leader : ACID
23-down – Bucks perhaps said to be over-valued : DEER

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22620 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22620 clues and answers were published on Mon 09 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22620 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Frank’s flat : STRAIGHT
5-across – Stock melody : STRAIN
9-across – Articles about public performance of music : RECITALS
10-across – Tilts at hint on drink : TIPSUP
12-across – Young ox needing guide : STEER
13-across – Impart knowledge free from superstition : ENLIGHTEN
14-across – Where three sisters met and cursed an old politician : BLASTEDHEATH
18-across – Diary outline set out what has to be done : DAILYROUTINE
21-across – Composer taking egghead to river in swimsuit? : BEACHWEAR
23-across – Part of journey by coach : STAGE
24-across – Row about note given by a particular bell : LUTINE
25-across – One who recommends a barrister : ADVOCATE
26-across – King in corsets wanders off : STRAYS
27-across – Have good intentions, but poor space : MEANWELL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Emphasis put on emotional pressure : STRESS
2-down – Engine plant : ROCKET
3-down – Mutual action in Pinter play at Lyric : INTERPLAY
4-down – An infrequent visitor – so they call me, unhappily : HALLEYSCOMET
6-down – Object to weak note : THING
7-down – Man holding, as it may be, a dog : ALSATIAN
8-down – North-eastern writer with article on sleeping potion : NEPENTHE
11-down – Man game for London crossing : ALBERTBRIDGE
15-down – Workmen getting depressed easily : HANDSDOWN
16-down – Strange dances performed by eccentrics : ODDBALLS
17-down – Calamity giving underworld a rest, perhaps : DISASTER
19-down – Ostentation from a padre? : PARADE
20-down – Disclose something about meat : REVEAL
22-down – Useful when boy goes to hospital : HANDY

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

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