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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22561 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22561 clues and answers were published on Tue 02 Jul 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22561 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – The brain train? Putsch got her so involved : THOUGHTPROCESS
9-across – Here’s a rampant lion, with cry about setback to hand : ROYALARMS
10-across – Underground police take terrorist’s part : METRO
11-across – My stuff is redeemable, or I”m a Dutchman : UNCLE
12-across – Fields at cover point, gaining easy win : LANDSLIDE
13-across – Prince to go back round the border and become an urchin : HEDGEHOG
14-across – Vessel carrying pennant? : FLAGON
17-across – Creator of monster to live among fairies : HOBBES
19-across – Number appearing in feature? Yes, maybe, to go 1 down : CHIMNEYS
22-across – Had rowdy party and terrorised characters – not right : ROISTERED
24-across – From Bergen, or several other places : NORSE
25-across – Thus turns a graduate into a terrorist : OSAMA
26-across – Putsch to capture king’s the obvious course : CLEARSOUP
27-across – Not George Thomas or Michael Martin? : ENGLISHSPEAKER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Take into consideration protagonist of Where the aerial goes : THROUGHTHEROOF
2-down – Coax DIY freak into chemical substance : OXYACID
3-down – It’s the hereditary factor that constrains elderly solvers to duck : GOLDENEYE
4-down – Told harm would result from slavery : THRALDOM
5-down – Investigates about Conservative following rebellion – they may go 1 down : RISING
6-down – Writer of the century, humorous at first? : CAMUS
7-down – Context of musical arrangement : SETTING
8-down – Go 1 down with loose translation by Home Ruler, or not : LOSEONESTEMPER
15-down – The French-Canadian city almost has English source of fruit : LEMONTREE
16-down – Apostle, a model, had a Roman god : THADDEUS
18-down – Land of intelligence, including computing etc : BRITAIN
20-down – Ale fitted with cork once went to dandy”s head : EARLOCK
21-down – See 5 : PRICES
23-down – Hangdog : TRAIL

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22558 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22558 clues and answers were published on Fri 28 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22558 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Raw meat treats – karate chopped! : STEAKTARTARE
8-across – Scrap containing plug holes may be produced with this : BRADAWL
9-across – Crooked looking prime minister not quite shutting up last of opposition : ASQUINT
11-across – ¿1 given to one in Birmingham for a drug : LIBRIUM
12-across – Effete blockbuster direction : EPICENE
13-across – Poison? Sound the alarm! : TOXIN
14-across – Religious teacher taking duck from zoo – a bird to put in the oven? : ZOROASTER
16-across – Clear round left one unconscious : OBLIVIOUS
19-across – Fourpence for roll first covered with butter : GROAT
21-across – Perfectly peaceful parts of Piccadilly not needing a PC : IDYLLIC
23-across – Read half of a Scott novel and notice central characters are mechanical : ROBOTIC
24-across – Hard workers in the city of Paris? : TROJANS
25-across – A south-west state and a north-east state backing midland Australia : ARIZONA
26-across – Let star liner make such a voyage : INTERSTELLAR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Speaker’s Platform, a programme on TV : SOAPBOX
2-down – Set in Ulster, love story all about high spirits : ELATION
3-down – Priest taking musical toy round city in Michigan : KALAMAZOO
4-down – Saw girl, huge, being cut in half : ADAGE
5-down – Abandoned ale, quit liquor : TEQUILA
6-down – Intend to appear in torn dress : RAIMENT
7-down – Initial boost recollected by one with end in sight : ABOLITIONIST
10-down – Action? There I may be misplaced, being an impractical type : THEORETICIAN
15-down – Turn up again with couple from Redondo Beach and expert on board : RESURFACE
17-down – Relinquish store in cellar : LAYDOWN
18-down – Five having a bad time – more than Hamlet? : VILLAGE
19-down – Angel making girl eat cheese : GABRIEL
20-down – Second in command extremely upset and cross about being in the open air : OUTDOOR
22-down – Legal expenses for Greek island taking evacuated Turks : COSTS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22556 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22556 clues and answers were published on Wed 26 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22556 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Military medic given honour and special attire : WARDROBE
5-across – Asked to have breakfast in bed? : BEGGED
9-across – Is male behind bars for uncivilised behaviour? : BARBARISM
11-across – Animal with desire to break into laugh? : HYENA
12-across – Competitor demanding more pounds as he gets better : WEIGHTLIFTER
15-across – Opening number doing the business : NOOK
16-across – Mistake gives Scottish city only half the quota : ABERRATION
18-across – This prig – he is unfit to be a religious leader : HIGHPRIEST
19-across – Longing to be a cult hero : ACHE
21-across – Under the influence? One’s beguiled, possibly : SEEINGDOUBLE
24-across – Hand out everyone books in church? : ALLOT
25-across – Eve learns to change being subject again : REENSLAVE
26-across – Vulgar rebel about to get boring : TAWDRY
27-across – Protrude with fat spreading around : STANDOUT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Name of socialist couple in network broadcasting originally : WEBB
2-down – Superb, but not well done? : RARE
3-down – One who may find error in a proof? : READER
4-down – Brunel seen as a diplomatic type? : BRIDGEBUILDER
6-down – One in the clan, out of place in a particular group : ETHNICAL
7-down – Female relation in army uprising in foreign country : GREATNIECE
8-down – You’ll be 21 with him, as one who no longer knows the ropes? : DEADRINGER
10-down – Rusted man, tutee mostly out of the ordinary? : MATURESTUDENT
13-down – Fan from orient touring province, so enthralled : ENTHUSIAST
14-down – Poet, who’s head and shoulders above others? : LONGFELLOW
17-down – As a woman she can’t be matched : SPINSTER
20-down – Girl left to be protected by very good boy : ALISON
22-down – Rodent climbing round plant : TARO
23-down – Dishonourable grass : BENT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22555 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22555 clues and answers were published on Tue 25 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22555 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Drink to huge success involving Pole in drink displaying decent conduct : SPORTSMANSHIP
10-across – Eccentric genius eating nothing fiery : IGNEOUS
11-across – Corrupt banker concealing the truth : DEPRAVE
12-across – Permitted to run away : LEGIT
13-across – Things to be done in response to solitary soul : ANCHORESS
14-across – A place to discuss getting Tube into shape : FORUM
16-across – Dickensian receiving one paper with source of free fuel : DRIFTWOOD
18-across – Running water stifles means of communication concerning evil spirit : CACODEMON
19-across – Man’s got the message : ROGER
20-across – What does sucker take from trendy physician? Anything! : INDRAUGHT
23-across – They’ll cover anything in the desert without concealing its source : SANDS
24-across – Evoking visions of one type of porcelain holding silver : IMAGING
25-across – Trail taking bridge team to benefactor : SPONSOR
26-across – Menelaus – a poem about 8? : MALEMENOPAUSE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Gay prince excited high praise : PANEGYRIC
3-down – Marsupials on top of the hen house : ROOST
4-down – Girl in Band A : SASHA
5-down – Unhealthy need for supplement containing carbon : ADDICTION
6-down – Excellent wine consumed by aficionado : SUPPORTER
7-down – Cross upheld by the secretariat : IRATE
8-down – Goddess, after film, cried uncontrollably – this is no juvenile trauma! : MIDLIFECRISIS
9-down – Colour is back in mansion in Whitby, say : SEASIDERESORT
15-down – Diplomatic and thoughtful Taiwanese leader’s ousted : MEDIATIVE
16-down – Populist is expected to embrace drug giant : DEMAGOGUE
17-down – Raised self-esteem interfering with one littlesibling’s egg production? : OOGENESIS
21-down – Measure a sensational event : DRAMA
22-down – Poet spending time up a mountain in Greece : TASSO
23-down – Aperture letting large number into portico : STOMA

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22552 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22552 clues and answers were published on Fri 21 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22552 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Do away with tax : EXCISE
4-across – Kind of oil, which helps things to run smoothly : CASTOR
9-across – More unmarked fruit : PLUS
10-across – New location on-line for image-worship : ICONOLATRY
11-across – First of old parliamentarians with attitude, getting cross : OPPOSE
12-across – Twice each month one has small ups and downs : NEAPTIDE
13-across – Dreary River Oise breaking over motorway : WEARISOME
15-across – One twice got the bird : IBIS
16-across – See 25 : MERE
17-across – Freedom fighters in holy city shortly to take up pilgrimage, you say? : MUJAHEDIN
21-across – Well-read people in orbit are tilting over : LITERATI
22-across – Service post : OFFICE
24-across – So upset, doctor runs off to therapy to get treatment ? : OSTEOPATHY
25-across – Stuff dough and what goes with Cumbrian butter : CASH
26-across – The birds and the bees and a flower finished off King Cole : NATURE
27-across – A pointer for a Bunthorne? : SETTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Obscure excerpts from film in Early English : ECLIPSE
2-down – Topless club started by college kid : CISCO
3-down – Goes around introducing first lover to second partners : SWIVELS
5-down – Acknowledgement of a letter delivered : AVOWAL
6-down – Reactionary transport board will be easy to lead : TRACTABLE
7-down – Welder without money raised a screen : REREDOS
8-down – Dreaming Rovers failing MOT, lass is numb : SOMNAMBULISTS
14-down – Blue uniform shirt issued once in a blue moon : RAREEVENT
16-down – Monster returns, supporting Mao’s introduction to China : MEISSEN
18-down – Balmy Mr Capp carrying nowt to Tyneside : ANODYNE
19-down – One can produce a score when rising composer : INCISOR
20-down – Meat for each basket : HAMPER
23-down – Flippant cashier promises to pay for small plane : FACET

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

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