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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22502 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22502 clues and answers were published on Wed 24 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22502 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – 12 and 11’s what the NHS provides : CAREFREE
5-across – 12 and 11’s – understand? – a debtors’ prison : FOLLOW
9-across – See 5 : THEFLEET
10-across – 12 and 11’s gone to the pub, it doesn”t say where : TOPHAT
12-across – Dancer and journalist held by dreadlocked sectary during shooting : FREDASTAIRE
15-across – Share of punishment? : WHACK
17-across – Pole with gong hiding among the bedclothes? : NIGHTGOWN
18-across – Person of ideas: the alternative is HM : THEORISER
19-across – All about nothing with one to finish, as they say : SUOMI
20-across – Possibly Jasper National Park : YELLOWSTONE
24-across – Richard’s pipes? : BRIERS
25-across – Champion of women has Tracey in hand : FEMINIST
26-across – Electronically summons student among similar sounds : BLEEPS
27-across – Islands disturbing lagoon where magnetic is not true : ISOGONAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Disinherit youngster when upper-class humorist, getting a bit of a laugh, came in and died : CUTOFFWITH
2-down – Sir Alec was to dance with Madame Peron, also Mr Heath : REELEVATED
3-down – Went down with a guy : FELLA
4-down – Take the trouble to note reflexes, perhaps : EXERTONESELF
6-down – Liftman keeps registered choices for procreation of snails : OVOTESTIS
7-down – The French take little time at the oven : LEHR
8-down – T is for Tyler, according to the inventor : WATT
11-down – Dancer and spirit wander in – depart for French department : GINGERROGERS
13-down – Engine for crazy poet : LOCOMOTION
14-down – Limited one sort of surgeon – that’s by the way : INCIDENTAL
16-down – For overhead security the king and I take the limits of Barnaby and his raven : KIRBYGRIP
21-down – 12 and 11’s second side on the clock? : SWING
22-down – See 1 : ABOB
23-down – See 21 : TIME

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22501 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22501 clues and answers were published on Tue 23 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22501 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Carriage for the French female in the money : CALASH
4-across – A whale turning ocean-going craft over : ACROSS
9-across – Head of family, note : KING
10-across – They receive price set in fixed arrangement : RECIPIENTS
11-across – Admission course : ENTREE
12-across – Ignore superior air : OVERLOOK
13-across – The man’s leading one at a time in a derisory way : HISSINGLY
15-across – Bearing with average sound : MIEN
16-across – Amass support : PILE
17-across – Part is for Easter egg production : SEGREGATE
21-across – Academic takes exercise with daughter, the old buffoon! : PEDANTIC
22-across – Tender, relatively speaking : SISTER
24-across – No smart set would make such a selection : ASSORTMENT
25-across – Throw out some miscellaneous trinkets : OUST
26-across – A dramatist’s jejune retreat : DRYDEN
27-across – Not up-to-date, being retrogressive, but made progress : WENTON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Greek character set against Italian wine : CHIANTI
2-down – Glare madly when alcoholic drink is served : LAGER
3-down – Boy with an inner compulsion to become a medical practitioner : SURGEON
5-down – Mimics one in clerical dress : COPIES
6-down – Above all, too economical with the truth : OVERLYING
7-down – Catalogue company at a disadvantage : SETDOWN
8-down – The young director : SCHOOLTEACHER
14-down – An old sailor, a right-minded man, dancing : SALTATORY
16-down – Bore down on a leading journalist : PRESSED
18-down – Favour trees to affect a transformation : ROSETTE
19-down – Time to argue for disloyalty : TREASON
20-down – Astute misrepresentation of the figure : STATUE
23-down – Hard up and so brusque : SHORT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22500 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22500 clues and answers were published on Mon 22 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22500 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Notice a wild flower : ACONITE
5-across – Trampled in an endless rush : STAMPED
10-across – Sack butt : PUSH
11-across – Charged a number in front of unjust magistrate for cheating : LOADEDDICE
12-across – Writer seen when one goes to doctor at five : ASIMOV
13-across – One gets in a flap at its opening time : ENVELOPE
14-across – Veto using proportional representation? : BLOCKVOTE
16-across – As good and bad employees may be, with enthusiasm : FIRED
17-across – Reason why some people fight : CAUSE
19-across – Sort of carrier for staff of office : PERSONNEL
23-across – Four repeatedly go out rustling : FROUFROU
24-across – Not wholly employed on the stage : INPART
26-across – The shooting season : SPRINGTIME
27-across – Drink for a fielder who drops nothing : PINT
28-across – Bird with no head for danger? : OSTRICH
29-across – Speech getting publicity coverage : ADDRESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Advise a local authority, say : COUNSEL
3-down – Prophet for whom to err is human : NAHUM
4-down – A live TV broadcast in Israel : TELAVIV
6-down – A time for high-handedness : TWELVE
7-down – A portion of beef from prize animal : MEDALLION
8-down – One who should be inside out : ESCAPEE
9-down – Confronted the orchestra or the critics : FACEDTHEMUSIC
15-down – French dresser Tom Cruise ordered : COSTUMIER
18-down – A rugby player turns up, so accepted as fit : APROPOS
20-down – Pay for the cloth : STIPEND
21-down – Jobs for the boys : ERRANDS
22-down – Distressing twitch about to irritate : TRAGIC
25-down – Father get through exam : PAPER

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22498 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22498 clues and answers were published on Fri 19 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22498 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

5-across – Nothing in the meter? Far from it : REMOTE
6-across – Take a bearing south – from Dunkirk, no doubt? : AMIENS
9-across – Spite found in many a girl : MALICE
10-across – For operation under cover one needs an insidious type : OPHIDIAN
11-across – Where to obtain some pottage : MESS
12-across – What train speed may turn out to be : PEDESTRIAN
13-across – Asiatic horse walks off with prizes : PRZEWALSKIS
18-across – Guests at Blair’s ball? : ATTENDANCE
21-across – Afternoon test : EXAM
22-across – To skive is bad in France and in parts of Germany : MALINGER
23-across – One taken aboard vessel for voyage : CRUISE
24-across – Dig up old philosopher : EXHUME
25-across – Where it’s cold riding in HGV : ARCTIC

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Girl rejected by emperor in India : AMRITSAR
2-down – Peter’s trained as a film star : STREEP
3-down – Hemp derivative, as is used for stress : EMPHASIS
4-down – Kind of cedar used to construct dreadnought : DEODAR
5-down – You could be better prepared without one : READER
7-down – Pretend to be an Asian healer : SHAMAN
8-down – Company of superior snobs? : CORDWAINERS
14-down – Gay demon, unlikely to have sex with his own kind : ENDOGAMY
15-down – Actors have to be getting unfair treatment : INEQUITY
16-down – Fliers set out afresh to attack : STRAFE
17-down – Something to go on the drinks bill? : BARSAC
19-down – Priest has turned prophet : ELISHA
20-down – Before soldiers performed once again : ENCORE

This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22497 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22497 clues and answers were published on Thu 18 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22497 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Substitute for 4, 9, 10, 14, 19, 21, 27 or 29 : DOUBLE
4-across – Light fitting good for burning daylight : GLAZING
9-across – Contained counter counter counter-tenor : BARRELLED
10-across – Tool used time ‘n’ time again : AGENT
11-across – Sliced chicken : CAPON
12-across – Hammer demonstrator’s excessive claim to a London borough? : ISLINGTON
13-across – Final puff from stovepipe hat : EPITAPH
15-across – Triumvirate running the tundra? : TROIKA
17-across – Scott’s post: standing to in return journey : EDITOR
19-across – Articulate job-sharer with 17 : JOINTED
22-across – Made love with one from model police force : COMPELLED
24-across – Stone circles absorbing one : LAPIS
26-across – Petri dish! : TRIPE
27-across – The old man’s friend might take a breather : PNEUMONIA
28-across – Rick’s communication’s scrambled : HAYWIRE
29-across – One’s hand is in his : DEALER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Crash when taxi turns left into river : DEBACLE
2-down – Open a French 13 : UNRIP
3-down – How hunters behave without hearts; one’s in the right and one’s inwhat? : LIEINWAIT
4-down – Thought For The Day, say: The Fate of the Olympians : GODSLOT
5-down – At the Turk’s Head, in for another round, please! : AGAIN
6-down – Wanted features composed thus : IDENTIKIT
7-down – Wicketkeeper enforcing such confinement? : GATING
8-down – Bob’s on the skids : SLEIGH
14-down – Bond: ‘e’s out of his tiny mind! On the contrary, not his, unfortunately : INDEMNITY
16-down – Miss Woodhouse left sadly for one raising the standard : ORIFLAMME
18-down – Reverse talk of Raleigh’s failure : RELAPSE
19-down – Tries to find Deborah here : JUDGES
20-down – Literary giant in the cave of Trophonius : DESPAIR
21-down – Spike with spirit : SCOTCH
23-down – That’s Gibson in there, up a gum tree : ELEMI
25-down – Unsparing writer, Capp : PENAL

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

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