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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22512 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22512 clues and answers were published on Mon 06 May 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22512 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Firm on strike is in serious trouble : HARDHIT
5-across – They cut some of the grass : BLADES
9-across – Contract is unable to include the cooker : COVENANT
10-across – Telephoned after the odds leapt up : SPRANG
12-across – The strain of the French Revolution : MARSEILLAISE
15-across – Sort of lady we hate to precede : LEADTHEWAY
17-across – Lark turned into a fish : GAR
19-across – Sailor possibly low in cigarettes : TAR
20-across – Shocked at airborne defect : ABERRATION
22-across – Have a great time – never mind the tears? : LETTHINGSRIP
26-across – Colour likely to run : YELLOW
27-across – Finally need hint, perhaps, to solve this clue : INTHEEND
28-across – Charges for original film shots : RUSHES
29-across – Descriptive of an eternity ring? : ENDLESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Kick from a horse : HACK
2-down – Badly delivered over to knock about : ROVE
3-down – Lay assembly? : HENPARTY
4-down – Port one gets in casks : TUNIS
6-down – Turnovers in coats : LAPELS
7-down – Means to secure artistic work? : DRAWINGPIN
8-down – An impressive thing to wear : SIGNETRING
11-down – I’m mounting new raid above ground level : MIDAIR
13-down – His work may disturb sleepers : PLATELAYER
14-down – Safety rail adapted for the nursery? : FAIRYTALES
16-down – Falling off Big Ben : EBBING
18-down – Is he in the orchestra, or dismissed? : BANISHED
21-down – Unseated, we hear, from seat of power : THRONE
23-down – Many ways to show feeling : SENSE
24-down – Qualifying for an attendance mark in the register : HERE
25-down – Does wrong, so gets lines : ODES

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22510 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22510 clues and answers were published on Fri 03 May 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22510 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Opening consulting room with minimal intrusion : KEYHOLE
5-across – See 1 : SURGERY
9-across – There’s a hole in sister’s things : NOUNS
10-across – Type of claret not finished, having no date attached : CLARENDON
11-across – Fair Susan holding love back, being virtuous : RIGHTEOUS
12-across – It takes a second to split up honest funds : PURSE
13-across – The wife’s language! : DUTCH
15-across – Type of service is shortly to be prepared for war : UNDERARMS
18-across – Type of dress with belt getting smaller : STRAPLESS
19-across – Assess university in depression : SUMUP
21-across – Subject to pretty intensive cross-examination initially : TOPIC
23-across – Unusually, men go cash for this dress : CHEONGSAM
25-across – Start unit that’s different for opposing monopolies : ANTITRUST
26-across – Pipe obtained from branch that is by river : BRIER
27-across – Influential group using cookhouse cupboard : KITCHEN
28-across – See 27 : CABINET

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Warm wine for the family : KINDRED
2-down – Child from New Street touching the Queen : YOUNGSTER
3-down – Start to break up a stone : ONSET
4-down – One gets ulcers put right for a pound : ENCLOSURE
5-down – Must I drop from the stairs to see them? : STARS
6-down – Sends back statements about former spouse : REEXPORTS
7-down – Senior to exhibit part of red letter upside down : ELDER
8-down – Americans travelling in southeast Kenya : YANKEES
14-down – Bound to need whisky for the game : HOPSCOTCH
16-down – Bad-tempered Syd held up savings scheme on credit nearly : DYSPEPTIC
17-down – Forgiveness concerning a self-imposed duty : REMISSION
18-down – Bad bet shatters Harry, which is a disappointment : SETBACK
20-down – A sweet cleaner put up with worry : POMFRET
22-down – Cat or dog, say, needs it to be small in Montpellier, say : PETIT
23-down – Child has a tea-maker, but where might the milk be? : CHURN
24-down – Not applicable to Geldorf, who’s a wealthy person : NABOB

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22507 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22507 clues and answers were published on Tue 30 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22507 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Sailors’ constant anticipation about a dance : HORNPIPE
5-across – There’s point in moral principle applied to race : ETHNIC
9-across – Fruit of the sea? : PEARMAIN
10-across – Gas from leading jurist? : JARGON
12-across – Backwash? : ENEMA
13-across – His philosophy was composed of toil and tears : ARISTOTLE
14-across – Timbre? : FOREIGNSTAMP
18-across – One’s instrumental in making peace with Israeli supporter though not at frist : ACCORDIONIST
21-across – Gill is of little account : SMALLBEER
23-across – Screw that’s not begun to screw? : EXACT
24-across – What the doctor ordered for getting fit to enter the race : TABLET
25-across – Troubled mind in a mob taken by the devil : HINDMOST
26-across – ‘ouse rented, of course : OMELET
27-across – Old vehicles scared us silly : USEDCARS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Fall out, perhaps, in the north : HAPPEN
2-down – In time he’ll ensure a personal appointment for you : REAPER
3-down – Display a grim hairstyle? Hardly : POMPADOUR
4-down – Drama featuring soldier Elvis played : PRIVATELIVES
6-down – Characteristic of rat, or not : TRAIT
7-down – Last drink of the day with a bird : NIGHTJAR
8-down – Office worker held in ongoing disrespect : CONTEMPT
11-down – Transport unfortunately isn’t arriving … : VIRGINTRAINS
15-down – … dependent on being temporarily unavailable : SUSPENDED
16-down – Voice raised in row on the river : FALSETTO
17-down – To college fellows, leisurely progress means disorderly haste : SCRAMBLE
19-down – Snack for a prophet in South Africa : SAMOSA
20-down – Rank, pretentious rubbish is held in some suspicion : STATUS
22-down – Willingly give a pound to the old woman : LIEVE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22506 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22506 clues and answers were published on Mon 29 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22506 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Party to divorce case agreeing on involvement of redhead : CORRESPONDENT
10-across – Use therapy : TREATMENT
11-across – Snap providing quiet hoot, perhaps : PHOTO
12-across – Dog track : TRAIL
13-across – What bride may want from leading theological writer : TROUSSEAU
14-across – Show including one actor of renown : OLIVIER
16-across – Birds following one with rodents : TITMICE
18-across – Make about a thousand burn : CREMATE
20-across – Monkey restrained by some low wall : PARAPET
21-across – American student getting nothing extra from new shop : SOPHOMORE
23-across – Nurse, for example, presenting vehicle to the Queen : CARER
24-across – One Meat Ball sent back in Nebraska : OMAHA
25-across – Duck captured by dissolute rakes : SHELDRAKE
26-across – Keep in mind ant that is wandering about, regardless of others : INCONSIDERATE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Workman in action : OPERATIVE
3-down – Animal put out by the ear : RATEL
4-down – Loud-mouth gets back to start riot : STENTOR
5-down – Letter sent to a remote station? : OUTPOST
6-down – Poor diet”s effects on banker : DEPOSITOR
7-down – Informer trapping nothing in snare : NOOSE
8-down – Say when at Buckingham Palace, for instance : STATEOCCASION
9-down – Paper sign to produce factual programmes : DOCUMENTARIES
15-down – Boyfriend getting girl doctor to change rota : INAMORATO
17-down – Bring in a book of great consequence : IMPORTANT
19-down – Self-centred people whose energy is set to run out? : EGOISTS
20-down – Aspire to be a suitor : PRETEND
22-down – Scheme to get one into flat : PLAIN
23-down – Tree in terraced arbour : CEDAR

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22504 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22504 clues and answers were published on Fri 26 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22504 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Vole emerging from desert after rain : WATERRAT
9-across – A military band? : ARMLET
10-across – Mavis in prison? : BIRD
11-across – Numbers used in gas scale : ANALGESICS
12-across – Go on and on about cake : WAFFLE
14-across – The month before last : NOVEMBER
15-across – Darling, there’s nothing in the ground : BELOVED
17-across – Hanging on the forehead : FRONTAL
20-across – See gross abuse when they terrify children : OGRESSES
22-across – Wilderness of dead, derelict trees : DESERT
23-across – The full crew sounds salute : COMPLEMENT
24-across – Where bolting is normal, yet exceptional : JAIL
25-across – Being extreme : MORTAL
26-across – Delicate kind of finish? : EGGSHELL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Banter is damaging in time : BADINAGE
2-down – Part of the Admiralty Arch : HEAD
3-down – The ridge in the middle at Lord’s? : CREASE
4-down – Taxes! They can be harmonised : STRAINS
5-down – The result of being stoned : HANGOVER
6-down – Larks of Arcadia? : AMUSEMENTS
7-down – Free cures made with drug : RESCUE
13-down – Vessels in river block up : FLOWERPOTS
16-down – Here one blows in from the North Sea : EASTERLY
18-down – Dry area used once by camels? : AIRFIELD
19-down – Led in and sued her for distortion : USHERED
21-down – Its shadow was a sign of the times : GNOMON
22-down – Excessive fondness shown in the first year and many more thereafter : DOTAGE
24-down – Boy heads for the navy : JOHN

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

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