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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22605 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22605 clues and answers were published on Thu 22 Aug 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22605 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Crew in a fight, possibly giving employment in the Blitz : FIREWATCHING
8-across – Tiny lad cast in stone? That’s the best one can hope for : OPTIMAL
9-across – Goddess using force to feed animals : DEMETER
11-across – English woods producing fiddlesticks! : EYEWASH
12-across – A stein brought round after the last of the summer wine : RETSINA
13-across – To take a king away, duke must also be carried : TOTED
14-across – Ready for war in pits? : UNDERARMS
16-across – Conductor and professor wouldn”t stop talking : RATTLEDON
19-across – A light neither fore nor aft : ABEAM
21-across – Profane love at one remove : VIOLATE
23-across – Four or six in rehearsal? That’s not important : TRIVIAL
24-across – Engaged in daring activities, like bonsai? : STUNTED
25-across – Like Sappho, born in an isle abroad : LESBIAN
26-across – Trees oft hewn in Hants? : THENEWFOREST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Most suitable match for survivors? : FITTEST
2-down – Poet having the edge when it comes to speed of transmission : RIMBAUD
3-down – A dog that’s large, beginning to fill house, gets turned out : WOLFHOUND
4-down – In Versailles you stick up for the royal family : TUDOR
5-down – Writing concealed by heart-rending creature in a cage : HAMSTER
6-down – Like a professor in the cinema, but more so? Teachers bank on it : NUTTIER
7-down – What resurrectionists do about Queen Margaret’s last poet : ROBERTGRAVES
10-down – Getting together again – like outside, like inside : REASSEMBLING
15-down – Verdi’s fourth opera about an upstanding sculptor : DONATELLO
17-down – Spooner’s low bit is over the top : TOOMUCH
18-down – Pressurised nitrogen stored under shed : LEANTON
19-down – A paper product in dispute : ATISSUE
20-down – No democrat wants one’s title changed : ELITIST
22-down – Provide for party in various ways, as does the sparrow or the crow : ENDOW

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22604 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22604 clues and answers were published on Wed 21 Aug 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22604 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – On Caribbean island fifties’ yob is hatched : INCUBATED
6-across – Complaint that makes our PC crash : CROUP
9-across – Rotten, lousy and mean form of communication : ANONYMOUSLETTER
10-across – Birds are partial to fine music : EMUS
11-across – Glamour girl goes without a car to get slim : DIMINISH
14-across – Before one gets minced meat and fish fingers, depend on them : METACARPI
15-across – Jane’s tribe? : ASHER
16-across – Endlessly mobile in dance leading to oblivion : LIMBO
18-across – Piles when treated can mean losing one’s grip : WHEELSPIN
20-across – Set off for assignation out of school : DETONATE
21-across – Fashion to crow about : GARB
25-across – Complaint with slim prospects : ANOREXIANERVOSA
26-across – Send a gathering to the mountains : ANDES
27-across – Grieg’s ten variations are on the cards : GREETINGS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Jack’s upset – that is, without being angry : IRATE
2-down – Game about getting cheese for less : CROQUET
3-down – Floaters turn out to be young males : BOYS
4-down – Follower of Bronstein – at a jog? : TROT
5-down – Depressed and, swallowing hard stuff, expired : DISPIRITED
6-down – Cider drunk on board is worthy of praise : CREDITABLE
7-down – A big model – well-endowed bird : OSTRICH
8-down – Singer in Evita sounds hoarse : PERCHERON
12-down – They treat urges to work with scorn : SCROUNGERS
13-down – Picks at random town for gathering ribbon : DRAWSTRING
14-down – Model savaged by sheep – a heart-rending performance : MELODRAMA
17-down – Unity perhaps achieved with German car : MITFORD
19-down – Philosopher on a military unit : PLATOON
22-down – Metal support poles : BRASS
23-down – Wounded joint in battle : KNEE
24-down – Something to serve as intelligence about the sovereign : WRIT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22603 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22603 clues and answers were published on Tue 20 Aug 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22603 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Could I fib with Ofgas? No d___ problem! I’m an imposter! : BOGUS
4-across – See 1 : OFFICIAL
8-across – Do understand! I’m not Unthorn! : DONTGETMEWRONG
10-across – One supports G&S with second return of nest eggs : SAVOYARD
11-across – Zoroastrian from average diocese : PARSEE
12-across – Prevail on Dark Lady, would you say? : OVERWHELM
15-across – One’s cheerfully drunk when in drink : TOAST
17-across – Royal Mistress heard in The Ring : KNELL
18-across – Can secure insecure dissent : RECUSANCE
19-across – Jack Frost’s child? : NIPPER
21-across – Sackable lapses of a Crimean bounder? : BLACKSEA
24-across – Illegal goal: one, perhaps, that is converted by Italian prodigy : GALILEOGALILEI
25-across – Rural retreat caught by its awful rage : AGRESTIC
26-across – Clues like this, I see, leave one hollow : CRYPT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Warning! Half of my shares go into her personal cover : BODYSTOCKING
2-down – Compete in Lac Leman, on dit, with that 1904 Darracq : GENEVIEVE
3-down – Spiritless horse full of beans? Singularly, quite the reverse! : SOGGY
4-down – Are wet otherwise, donning our gear : OUTERWEAR
5-down – Force that it following land one had to fight for : FIEF
6-down – Author with stake in church bibles : CERVANTES
7-down – Grey’s name in The Times : AGNES
9-down – Congressional adviser, as this expert might be : SEXTHERAPIST
13-down – Wine lover becoming a wild glutton : WOLVERINE
14-down – Mouldy attempt to rise in my 22 : MYCOLOGIC
16-down – ‘ang about! Attack the target! : AUNTSALLY
20-down – Lodger ran into collision : PRANG
22-down – Tobacco licensing giving one the gripes : COLIC
23-down – Interfered with the roofer : FELT

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22602 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22602 clues and answers were published on Mon 19 Aug 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22602 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – One shouldn’t miss this store opening : BARNDOOR
9-across – Interrupt to add one’s contribution : CHIPIN
10-across – See a letter goes to the agent : ESPY
11-across – Amazed – and so is the organisation : ASTONISHED
12-across – A poem’s positive points : ANODES
14-across – All told, twice : SUMTOTAL
15-across – You have to do so : POSSESS
17-across – Retire from the contest – not up to it? : SCRATCH
20-across – Vulgar chaps start telling a low story : BASEMENT
22-across – It’s worn by a woman for a dance : BOLERO
23-across – A team captain who knows the score? : BANDLEADER
24-across – Brother to Uncle Remus : BRER
25-across – Show preference for a penthouse : LEANTO
26-across – Trained cadet due for promotion : EDUCATED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Tyson and Ali involved in punches : LAYSINTO
2-down – Alone in Lyon, sadly : ONLY
3-down – Writing about examination principles : MORALS
4-down – Object is to get an annoying person to admit corruption : PROTEST
5-down – In distribution of income the company is thrifty : ECONOMIC
6-down – Prime trees doomed! : FIRSTOFALL
7-down – Came in to change the pictures : CINEMA
13-down – Scented and affected offspring : DESCENDANT
16-down – Framework keels over with added weight : SKELETON
18-down – Stayed, but is escorted out : CORSETED
19-down – Relieved by the bosses? : STUDDED
21-down – A beast in distress lowers : ABATES
22-down – Nothing in this vessel will be of extravagant style : BARQUE
24-down – Magistrates’s bill : BEAK

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22600 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22600 clues and answers were published on Fri 16 Aug 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22600 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Hardy hero taking good puff before award : ADJUDGE
5-across – Subsequent article left on one side : LATERAL
9-across – Verrucas repelled Jack : STRAW
10-across – Virgin is indifferent? : UNTOUCHED
11-across – The outcome of a big splash out o-on flash do? : NOAHSFLOOD
12-across – Rubbed shoulders, maybe, with state elder : MASS
14-across – Sound of a ship’s cannon? : ARMOFTHESEA
18-across – One is opposed to bishop greeting trade union? What a bloomer! : ANTIRRHINUM
21-across – See 12 : AGED
22-across – Unbalanced and unhappy star takes back TV trophy, sick at heart : ASYMMETRIC
25-across – Spaniard is given a part: the continental Scotsman? : CASTILIAN
26-across – Ne plus ultra, so far as this region goes! : THULE
27-across – Blue wine is a washout : SADSACK
28-across – In hall, grand parties promenade ¿ every one of them : CONCERT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Agree to a rise, we’re told : ASSENT
2-down – River ordinance incorporated within the month : JORDAN
3-down – Where scullions knew their place : DOWNSTAIRS
4-down – Gain the same standard uniform : EQUAL
5-down – Amusing items in the auction? : LOTSOFFUN
6-down – Utterly wrong tense : TAUT
7-down – Do a dry run? Here goes – bottom’s down! : REHEARSE
8-down – Doctor Dylan’s MA presented to Don Giovanni : LADYSMAN
13-down – The French left Munich man in time to reach Burgundy : CHAMBERTIN
15-down – One’s taken up by the painter with a handshake : MAHLSTICK
16-down – Airline cuts revealing sums of spare cash : BALANCES
17-down – 6 is underlined : STRESSED
19-down – Beef and game : GROUSE
20-down – Grant is held up by student peccadilloes : ACCEPT
23-down – Elated, magnetic? Get away! : MANIC
24-down – Prima dona taking into her veins something impounded by state prosecutor : DIVA

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

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