Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22599 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22599 clues and answers were published on Thu 15 Aug 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22599 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Language from woman’s hard to follow : IRISH
10-across – Choose time for entering – I have key : OPERATIVE
11-across – Match-goer dissolving in the mass : HECTOGRAM
12-across – Unhappy about baked dish – not entirely tasty : SAPID
13-across – Quarrel in which wife has right perspective : WRANGLE
15-across – Detective being a man of many words : DICKENS
17-across – Given a fair treat or treated unfairly? : TAKEN
18-across – See 17 : FOR
20-across – See 17 : ARIDE
22-across – Embrocation with no name working like a machine : ROBOTIC
25-across – Grubby little area? : DINETTE
26-across – Smartness of soldier in coat : MAGIC
27-across – Chaps at the very top ruling cricket? : OVERLORDS
30-across – Meat and drink – first and last items of picnics by tree : RUMPSTEAK
31-across – A street in American city can be frightful : NASTY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Top level achieved by worthy, which is evident when paper comes to light? : HIGH
2-down – Shoddy plane ascending with sign of metal fatigue? : GIMCRACK
3-down – Endless rush – don’t hang around! : SHOO
4-down – Fine female on colt crossing our meadow and meeting sweetheart – a lucky discovery? : FOURLEAF
5-down – Supposed river would join sea : DEEMED
6-down – Future bride on bike – companion with a trendy floral decoration : DAISYCHAIN
7-down – Ordinary concern for money made from investment? : SIMPLE
8-down – Leader’s policy, which dominates the front page : HEAD
13-down – See 1 : WATER
14-down – A sort of biologist, I get insect dissected : GENETICIST
16-down – Screen is put up on day before festival : SIEVE
19-down – Reactionary types – are they getting hot under the collar? : REDNECKS
21-down – See 7 : INTEREST
23-down – Great little woman’s participation in more than one match : BIGAMY
24-down – See 4 : CLOVER
26-down – See 1 : MARK
28-down – See 8 : LINE
29-down – Water below doesn’t move audibly : STYX

This crossword has in total 33 where 15 are across and 18 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22597 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22597 clues and answers were published on Tue 13 Aug 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22597 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Unfortunately, week ending March 2nd is in a state : ALASKA
4-across – They are for the rest of the aircraft : HANGARS
9-across – Pure as Antarctica? : CONTINENT
10-across – Abolish alternative witch’s place : ENDOR
11-across – Get rid of Italian and completely destroy : ERASE
12-across – Part of theatre set beside court area : SCENEDOCK
13-across – Dynamo switch comes immediately before it : TUESDAY
15-across – Fictional bulldog breeder? : SAPPER
17-across – She speaks for the Tower of Pisa : EILEEN
19-across – Nowadays upstart’s delayed and flatter : ADULATE
22-across – Ophthalmic optician, for example : TAUTOLOGY
24-across – March to Belgium for discharge : DEMOB
26-across – Single Frenchman gets the girl : IRENE
27-across – Samson follower worries intensely about the first : AGONISTES
28-across – Time spent by Bondi digger? : SUNBAKE
29-across – Go and drive! : ENERGY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Aged Cain treated by hospital department : ANCIENT
2-down – A main source of embryonic membrane : AMNIA
3-down – Wound fringe to a critical point : KNIFEEDGE
4-down – Ideal places for producing new groundwork : HOTBEDS
5-down – Non-starter that’s Anglican relation : NIECE
6-down – Stars, including Italian lawyer? : ANDROMEDA
7-down – Flyer quietly runs over president : SHRIKE
8-down – Meagre meals cooked at Swinley Bottom : MEASLY
14-down – A nice, pure composition, but sensual : EPICUREAN
16-down – London’s initial symbol : POUNDSIGN
18-down – Latest arrival’s a different one: natural sweetheart : NEONATE
19-down – Any disorderly greeting to Indian conveyed by whatever means : ANYHOW
20-down – Excellence is to be found here : EMBASSY
21-down – Moral philosophy is the alternative final indication of a science : ETHICS
23-down – Gay work? : OPERA
25-down – Dr Hill has transport : MOTOR

This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22594 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22594 clues and answers were published on Fri 09 Aug 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22594 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Game F1 driver : PIQUET
4-across – Encouraging remark made by Hannibal initially in Carthaginian retreat : CHINUP
9-across – Opposed to sloth around midwinter : ANTI
10-across – Flexible ape or rigid rodent : PRAIRIEDOG
11-across – Contribute by givin’ up? : KICKIN
12-across – Regular issue and good service : EVENSONG
13-across – A singer can use the arrangement : CHANTEUSE
15-across – Use gentle persuasion – providing drinks, by the sound of it : COAX
16-across – What attracts bishop? Getting introduction to actress with sex appeal? : BAIT
17-across – Arctic prison for Spooner’s dance : JITTERBUG
21-across – Head may be head of fox or antelope : FORELAND
22-across – Precision in Germanic etymology : NICETY
24-across – Discombobulated acid-head means to join cast : THROWNAWAY
25-across – Wise men from Michigan collecting silver : MAGI
26-across – Bent back in response to stimulus : REFLEX
27-across – On the borders of Zimbabwe there’s many a fanatic : ZEALOT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Pinter play set on top of hill in Cumbria : PENRITH
2-down – Living like a bat out of hell? : QUICK
3-down – Stretch or break up in river : EXPANSE
5-down – He made the bloody discovery before Wallbanger : HARVEY
6-down – A physicist and his Nobel work on source of radiation : NIELSBOHR
7-down – Rara avis in Arizona? : PHOENIX
8-down – Film about alien in naval vessel that’s out of action : WATERSHIPDOWN
14-down – Stage direction sounds bad : NOISESOFF
16-down – Monk getting Russian leader into trouble? : BROTHER
18-down – Old photograph of tiny pet, perhaps : TINTYPE
19-down – Strait-laced university professor first getting drunk : UPTIGHT
20-down – Indian putting hand on knee : PAWNEE
23-down – Beast found in Cornish river : CAMEL

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22593 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22593 clues and answers were published on Thu 08 Aug 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22593 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Realistic show must be awful crap to amuse : PRACTICAL
6-across – See 1 : CATS
10-across – Sign of opposition to Tory big guns? : LIBRA
11-across – Senior citizens’ concession returned, all with book of 1 6 : OLDPOSSUM
12-across – Crime needs time and cause : TREASON
13-across – Progressing along lines? : INTRAIN
14-across – Opening of epic play – what can hold a note in song, if historic : ARMSANDTHEMAN
17-across – Antique cover – one managed to survive into last century : QUEENVICTORIA
21-across – Cover sheltering most of circus was fatal to Samson : HAIRCUT
22-across – State backing for Irish imprisoned by Hitler : FLORIDA
24-across – Tenure terminable by bullets blasting holes in it? : LEASEHOLD
25-across – Dominant, the leading note of the conductor? : SOLTI
26-across – In and out of season? : TIDE
27-across – Girl playing Mary in religious body : SALLYARMY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – With loads of room for the i in semivowel : PALATIAL
2-down – Essential for lamb learning to walk : AMBLE
3-down – Slides that can’t be hidden? : TRANSPARENCIES
4-down – Many outside Tyneside should be hit on the head : CROWNED
5-down – Having had some lager – dead drunk at the start – his problem? : LADDISH
7-down – Sailor drunk retsina, which I wouldn’t do : ABSTAINER
8-down – Crime is up when you get cash without energy : SIMONY
9-down – With scorn I leave police: you mustn’t worry : CONTEMPTUOUSLY
15-down – Mother’s sovereign keeping one from Channel Island is partisan : MAQUISARD
16-down – Absentee of 1 6 makes a hole under mountain : MACAVITY
18-down – No fishing possible with such a financial result? : NETLOSS
19-down – I don’t believe in God’s last entry into new life : INFIDEL
20-down – House the French talk about : CHALET
23-down – I don’t do much that is of not so much use : IDLER

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22592 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22592 clues and answers were published on Wed 07 Aug 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22592 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Hypocrisy of long line of young folk with careers : CROCODILETEARS
9-across – Artist’s touch shown in fierce competition : RATRACE
10-across – Bachelor’s lookalike found in carrier : BRINGER
11-across – Return of Duckweed, written by a muse : ERATO
12-across – Time taken by one who composed, conducted and toured : TRAVELLED
13-across – State spread in which apple drink is knocked back : PREDICATE
14-across – Convert her with my short poem! : RHYME
15-across – Welsh girl involved in nunnery supervision : NERYS
17-across – Confess, yet appear decent : COMECLEAN
20-across – Drive sorted out six with no cure : EXCURSION
22-across – Author lying in the street, exhausted : SPENT
23-across – Hat to wear for short journey to part of Cornwall : TRICORN
24-across – One of three rulers produces inordinately rich art : TRIARCH
25-across – No film needs a comeback : NEGATIVEANSWER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Company payments about to acknowledge journalists : CORRESPONDENTS
2-down – It’s eccentric to hide silver – and a gross offence : OUTRAGE
3-down – Demosthenes, perhaps – one very big in musical compositions : ORATORIOS
4-down – Lack of activity gets tie spoiled with rain : INERTIA
5-down – Welcome me turning up with support : EMBRACE
6-down – Refugee in English team meeting the French : EXILE
7-down – Cover up in bank, as the Queen does : REGALLY
8-down – Chandler’s crate repaired by much older lover : CRADLESNATCHER
14-down – Collapse of holiday – no one turned up! : RECESSION
16-down – Descartes seen outside clinic, half-shattered, needing rest : RECLINE
17-down – Life force in opposition to wine : CHIANTI
18-down – Mother has somehow eaten a sea cow : MANATEE
19-down – Were boy to change, this might go up in disbelief : EYEBROW
21-down – Cheerio, Jack! Wine’s included! : RIOJA

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

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