Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22531 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22531 clues and answers were published on Tue 28 May 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22531 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Name that ‘Monaco-worth-a-trek’ bloke! NB He possibly means he got there! : THEMANWHOBROKE
9-across – Mix it with whisky, soda and ice, as they say in the East End : EYEBALL
10-across – One firm push in advance on Mexican port : TAMPICO
11-across – Shrink from seaman with utter strumpet : ABHOR
12-across – Thus I list Rodin’s silent retrospective of noted works : ORATORIOS
13-across – The other guide to India : KAMASUTRA
14-across – Offensive Italian-English mountain man? : EYETI
15-across – Meditation here from Massenet: ie wasting time once! : THAIS
17-across – Some measure of radioactivity where Montcalm failed to change halves on line : BOCQUEREL
20-across – Some tie and diehard : OLDSCHOOL
22-across – Fibre of dark lady eluding ref’s assistant : ISTLE
23-across – Carton sent for dispatch by this carrier : TUMBRIL
24-across – Great circle round last city in Australia : BENDIGO
25-across – Either Doris or Robin, eventually : ONEOFTHESEDAYS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – See 1 across : THEBANKATMONTE
2-down – Off-Broadway location relieves Hamlet production : EVESHAM
3-down – Blindness of a graduate neurosis: can’t see Tyneside : AMAUROSIS
4-down – Derek, Clyde and Joe with Louisa May : WALCOTT
5-down – Large otter booked with a right turn on the tiles : OSTRAKA
6-down – A lover of phonetics : ROMEO
7-down – Fertilizer the shrew absorbs in one : KAINITE
8-down – Wily bobby’s sole error: admission of youthful indulgence? : BOYSWILLBEBOYS
14-down – European sinecure falling to rapacity … : ESURIENCE
16-down – … with a piece of the Indian islands : ANDAMAN
17-down – Manual indicating ‘Show yellow card for obstruction’ : BOOKLET
18-down – What it takes to make a bore : CALIBRE
19-down – Greek pines for this drink : RETSINA
21-down – See 1 across : CARLO

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22530 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22530 clues and answers were published on Mon 27 May 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22530 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – : CUSTOMS
5-across – See 1 : BARRIER
10-across – A letter less than perfect in conception : IDEA
11-across – Doesn’t care about being poor : SECONDRATE
12-across – An English bowler knocked it for six : ARMADA
13-across – Offer transfer to Albion : OBLATION
14-across – European to jump in Olympic event : POLEVAULT
16-across – Combine into one military formation by the end of battle : UNITE
17-across – Scout leader to make do with compass : SCOPE
19-across – Paul’s trade – wine producer? : TENTMAKER
23-across – Possibly accused about fifty, but it comes to a dead end : CULDESAC
24-across – Eastern style of serving chops? : KARATE
26-across – The beauty appears without wrinkles : COMELINESS
27-across – Spot the wimp : DRIP
28-across – A gambler’s accomplice : ABETTER
29-across – Clamp down on workforce : OPPRESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Experience lower energy : UNDERGO
3-down – The Pope’s top gear : TIARA
4-down – Cosmetic surgery’s result concealed by mother : MASCARA
6-down – Records of non-U plants : ANNALS
7-down – Land of Hope and Glory? : RURITANIA
8-down – Goes to a restaurant, or has a picnic : EATSOUT
9-down – Coach foolishly presented her chocolates : SCHOOLTEACHER
15-down – Appropriate device : EXPEDIENT
18-down – Restored club room lacks right amount of electricity : COULOMB
20-down – Accepts invitation to have drink : TAKESUP
21-down – Competitors making records : ENTRIES
22-down – Aim for a high place in the church : ASPIRE
25-down – Added recommendation for a jockey : RIDER

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22528 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22528 clues and answers were published on Fri 24 May 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22528 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Moment to hold back groove following small criticism : STRICTURE
6-across – One disparaged for working for a crust? : SCAB
10-across – Light warning for sap getting stoned : AMBER
11-across – Worsted openly shown to contain rag : OUTWITTED
12-across – Iceberg round Cos? : LETTUCE
13-across – I heard about Cupid’s bit of nastiness : EYESORE
14-across – No one with hair in sports, as there could be bugs! : WALLSHAVEEARS
17-across – Super hearing about Euclidian acre : CLAIRAUDIENCE
21-across – A tine that doesn’t end in sharp spike : ACANTHA
22-across – Check on boy returning in disgrace : SCANDAL
24-across – First battalion to arrange a dire transformation in officer : BRIGADIER
25-across – State marriage vow without joyful expression : IDAHO
26-across – Not the first Grecian smell : REEK
27-across – Eg mineral production company could be victim of this : GREENMAIL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – All in, proves a shipping hazard : SHALLOWS
2-down – Refute unruly brute : REBUT
3-down – Tantric musical may be incidental : CIRCUMSTANTIAL
4-down – Old city poem to the French amphibians : URODELA
5-down – OTT in the next Remembrance Day : EXTREME
7-down – Henry Jr. understands : COTTONSON
8-down – Harry’s a beast : BADGER
9-down – Israel dissolved in drink when loosening up : LIBERALISATION
15-down – Vertical upstart could be moneymaking : LUCRATIVE
16-down – Highland birds reportedly became victims : FELLFOUL
18-down – Place of learning? : READING
19-down – Increases desire for a rise : UPSURGE
20-down – Arch slightly about 10 : CAMBER
23-down – Ultimately, bread and butter to a serious actor : DRAMA

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22527 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22527 clues and answers were published on Thu 23 May 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22527 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Dicky loved PE and what it enabled him to do : DEVELOP
5-across – Disgusting bones scattered round the church : OBSCENE
9-across – Strength said to be found in one old dictator : MUSSOLINI
10-across – Reported serial attacker captured by the Queen : ERGOT
11-across – Routine is hard for a woman : RUTH
12-across – Beak spoils tart’s image : MAGISTRATE
14-across – Musical heard in the country : GREECE
15-across – Round the Cape and turn in late : OVERDUE
16-across – 14’s money once grabbed by landlord – Rachman, for example : DRACHMA
18-across – Tories could be on the attack : SORTIE
20-across – Horse-breaker, so to speak, delays proceedings : FILIBUSTER
21-across – Bones with great sex appeal : OSSA
24-across – Write off article from periodical : ANNUL
25-across – Cigar rolled in holy assembly of ruling clique : OLIGARCHY
26-across – Playwright is very nearly cross : TRAVERS
27-across – Hollow cavities put to evil purposes : SINUSES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Hesitate to promote queer journalist : DEMUR
2-down – New arrival is in vitro, perhaps : VISITOR
3-down – Sale item brings in nothing but money : LOOT
4-down – Soldier on leave is no programmed item on Radio 3 : PRIVATEPASSIONS
5-down – Theory of precision goes, if mutation occurs : ORIGINOFSPECIES
6-down – Favourite soft centre? : SWEETHEART
7-down – Antelope is no good out of the country : ENGLAND
8-down – Way out, way out – one going out with a soldier : EXTREME
13-down – Shield able to provide little cover : DESHABILLE
16-down – One fed up with worker being bolshie : DEFIANT
17-down – Article dropped by runner in Georgia : ATLANTA
19-down – Creatures of trendy religious groups : INSECTS
22-down – Something deep Neddy’s taken by : ABYSS
23-down – Creep on four legs : FAWN

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22526 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22526 clues and answers were published on Wed 22 May 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22526 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Glasses raised at L’Opera : LORGNETTE
10-across – Wood is damaged by one : EBONY
11-across – The batsman’s occupation : INNINGS
12-across – Man in a mother country : AMERICA
13-across – They curl and lift cubes : TONGS
14-across – Irish group playing Bach roles : BACHELORS
16-across – Les canadiens, for example : FRENCHCANADIANS
19-across – Belt proclaiming a Knight Bachelor : SURCINGLE
21-across – Run downhill : PISTE
22-across – Where a houseman rules? : KINGDOM
23-across – Fought as law bred free-for-all : BRAWLED
24-across – Subject is: The Discontented Mule : THEME
25-across – Investment specialist? : OUTFITTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – They charge others, even pets : PLAINTIFFS
2-down – I left command to the artillery : ORDNANCE
3-down – A bread-like fruit : ANANAS
4-down – Some American depositors backed this inventor : OTIS
5-down – Galloping cancer seen in second birth : RENASCENCE
6-down – Clergyman Paul, an American hero going to North Dakota : REVEREND
7-down – Spotted in play, its effect is disastrous : DOMINO
8-down – It’s a wild year for a cat? : EYRA
14-down – Game belonging to the past? Nonsense! : BACKGAMMON
15-down – They keep the hose straight : SUSPENDERS
17-down – The line of those in the playground : CHILDREN
18-down – Positive kind of zero? On the contrary! : ABSOLUTE
20-down – Landing strip : RUNNER
21-down – A lake not easily ruffled : PLACID
22-down – Christopher Marlowe’s last predator : KITE
23-down – Crazy flutters : BATS

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

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