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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22630 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22630 clues and answers were published on Fri 20 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22630 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – White liquid mixture provides me with bleach : BECHAMEL
9-across – Spirit and a fizzy tonic : ACTION
10-across – This celebrity participates in dishonest arguments : STAR
11-across – Cooped up with wicked door-minder : ROOMRIDDEN
12-across – Easily remembered feline found with small child at day’s end : CATCHY
14-across – Encourage fights to get food containers : EGGBOXES
15-across – No brother of mine, says ‘Arry : SKINAND
17-across – See 15 : BLISTER
20-across – To act as a drudge is hot and very difficult : DEVILISH
22-across – A cry for help reveals Doris behind the hawthorn blossom : MAYDAY
23-across – Protective specs for young women who have squealed first : SUNGLASSES
24-across – Dark fruit for a boyfriend? : DATE
25-across – Being cultural helps to make Elizabeth nicer : ETHNIC
26-across – The Bard’s bawdy mistress is dried up : OVERDONE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Withdrew deposit in artistic part of Paris : LEFTBANK
2-down – Clean wheels going round hard : CHAR
3-down – Nauseatingly suave sergeant-major in front of the soldiers : SMARMY
4-down – In disorder, tho’ a solver has help in another way : ALLOVER
5-down – Song requires absurd gear on a lady’s head : MADRIGAL
6-down – Soul’s duty I interpreted with diligence : STUDIOUSLY
7-down – Sailor has fizzy drink to look at : POPEYE
13-down – Good discovered in self-controlled body : CONTINGENT
16-down – The pest is in touch : NUISANCE
18-down – It’s tough no longer working in the theatre : EXACTING
19-down – See 4 : THESHOP
21-down – Fairness of eyes only half-visible when about to depart : EQUITY
22-down – Kitchen utensil for an attractive girl, but no saint : MASHER
24-down – Queen of Carthage achieved nothing : DIDO

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22629 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22629 clues and answers were published on Thu 19 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22629 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Bingo caller half-converted rustic home : LOGCABIN
5-across – Calculator used in French exam in Australia : ABACUS
9-across – Whittle about one final destination – or the other? : PARADISE
10-across – Adornment for turning deer into insect : ANKLET
11-across – Explanation in reverse is, say, dividing old flames : EXEGESIS
12-across – Take note in favour of a tasty mouthful : BONBON
14-across – Old Swiss physician in rush to join Friends of America : PARACELSUS
18-across – Admiral’s head over heels about seaman’s holiday : SHORELEAVE
22-across – Memorised Shakespearean books : LEARNT
23-across – Queen, for example, in Voice of Mr Hyde, perhaps : ALTEREGO
24-across – Stimulating coterie almost stimulated : EROTIC
25-across – Arrangement for Delius to take retirement : SOLITUDE
26-across – Regular yen and noble yen : YEARLY
27-across – Ambitious, so competed in a projection : ASPIRANT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Raised odds in the sea beast’s misdemeanours : LAPSES
2-down – Fish’s lair where land is worked : GARDEN
3-down – Boy medic coming in for a second time : ANDREW
4-down – Amended site dating and established origins : INSTIGATED
6-down – Cane wielder’s instruction in hill town : BENDOVER
7-down – Gourd keeping a party in the money : CALABASH
8-down – Corrupt saint: a saint? Anything but! : SATANIST
13-down – It’s great to spoil French solvers, keeping distance : MARVELLOUS
15-down – Exercise out of season on tracks to the old instrument : PSALTERY
16-down – Firm of accountants about to look up drink manufacturers : COCACOLA
17-down – Sailors’ greeting in ugly scene in Thomas’s poem : FERNHILL
19-down – Sign of stone in icecap : GEMINI
20-down – Nasty end for Alexandre Dumas’ ghastly woman : MEDUSA
21-down – Stretch of water going so fast : SOLENT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22628 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22628 clues and answers were published on Wed 18 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22628 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Model sermon could be a fearsome thing : MONSTER
5-across – Firm’s custom is to have a single partner : COHABIT
9-across – Type we need information about : GENRE
10-across – One’s words may lead to action : SLANDERER
11-across – Queue at frontier – luggage may be near the limit : BORDERLINECASE
13-across – Demonstration by Consignia? … : EXPO
14-across – … Tarry – stuff could be in the post : CREOSOTE
17-across – They may have you covered, but certainly won’t initiate fire : INSURERS
18-across – School education first to be given weight : ETON
21-across – With abstruse reading, impress the highest in Oxford : DREAMINGSPIRES
23-across – Constant withdrawal from capital turning City into stimulating reaction : CATALYTIC
24-across – Paper peculatio : THEFT
25-across – A sin soldiers left behind as part of cleansing : LUSTRAL
26-across – Confused model with a right to a peerage : EARLDOM

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Beaks begin as conveyers of offerings : MAGI
2-down – Components Simon mislaid, lacking responsibility : NONCOMPOSMENTIS
3-down – Die in attempt to get with it : TRENDY
4-down – Girl turns up in right place for vacation : RESORT
5-down – Ravel : CLAVIERS
6-down – Hard boundary, hard to go over – it’s prickly : HEDGEHOG
7-down – Hear about fiddle playing for a funeral : BURIALOFTHEDEAD
8-down – Erstwhile bit of an opera : THREEPENNY
12-down – Time, perhaps, for police raid : PERIODICAL
15-down – One discontented king outdoing Uriah? : GRUMBLER
16-down – Time for parental preparation? : PRENATAL
19-down – I forgot to say, youth club leaders may explode, so mind! : PSYCHE
20-down – A flyer cut short by drink : BITTER
22-down – Half the alphabet is minute : ATOM

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22627 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22627 clues and answers were published on Tue 17 Sep 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22627 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Naked celebrities entertaining king and queen : STARKERS
9-across – Actor turned away as the elephant man : MAHOUT
10-across – Shakespeare’s mistress displays the same unknown quantities : DOXY
11-across – Conquest finished by Advent : OVERCOMING
12-across – Jack was sick in jug : JAILED
14-across – Volcanic rock around volcano – outside inside? : ANDESITE
15-across – Old school quadrangle : SQUARE
17-across – King giving order? Right on! : OBERON
20-across – He’d put on raincoat with fashionable lining, not handmade : MACHINED
22-across – Perfume for the hair might appear strange on horse : BAYRUM
23-across – Queen’s radio broadcast, for example, presented by the Foreign Office in Paris : QUAIDORSAY
24-across – Sweet jester : FOOL
25-across – What slimmer wouldn’t expect to appraise? : SIZEUP
26-across – Drug baron finally getting lorry outside Columbia : NARCOTIC

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Excessive guy getting in outsize furniture : OTTOMANS
2-down – Father always joined in a brawl : FRAY
3-down – Final letter about deer set at nought : ZEROED
4-down – Fishing boat goes to fish? Exactly! : SMACKDAB
5-down – Poet translating myth or saga : THOMASGRAY
6-down – Direction in boat that may bear fruit? : PUNNET
8-down – Notice saying Playground Equipment : SEESAW
13-down – Hearing aid? Old haulier’s transported : LOUDHAILER
16-down – Churchill managed to move slowly round hospital : RANDOLPH
18-down – Personality disorder not initially terribly serious : NEUROSIS
19-down – Puzzling child, as favourite may be : ODDSON
21-down – Section of climbing trail up Alps in Italy : APULIA
22-down – Ex-minister entertaining upper-class people with money to spend : BUYERS
24-down – What beaters do with game that’s put up : FLOG

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

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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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