Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22548 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22548 clues and answers were published on Mon 17 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22548 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Everyone bound to be properly organised : ALLTIEDUP
10-across – About time to go out — OK? : AGREE
11-across – Safe anchorages found on entering Nigerian port : LAGOONS
12-across – Stiff man enters vehicle : CADAVER
13-across – Old woman tickled to death? : TROUT
14-across – A smokescreen? : FILTERTIP
16-across – What highly attractive investments may yield? : HANDSOMEPROFITS
19-across – At home in France : ENFAMILLE
21-across – Hiding place many yearn to find : CACHE
22-across – Natural cover in garden, originally : FIGLEAF
23-across – Effective narration : TELLING
24-across – Charming hostess, who helped her guests make pigs of themselves : CIRCE
25-across – Clothing that is never worn out : UNDERWEAR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – It may be blocked for dancers : BALLETSHOE
2-down – Stop when the standard is low : FLAGDOWN
3-down – Lose the point and go for the runs : HITOUT
4-down – The chances of racing : ODDS
5-down – Place a posy, put out for the unveiling : APOCALYPSE
6-down – Sea dog in trouble in California : SANDIEGO
7-down – Tax put on new car stock : CRAVAT
8-down – Better the non-drinker leaves this : BEER
14-down – A relatively bitter struggle : FAMILYFEUD
15-down – Ineffective players seen going to train : PASSENGERS
17-down – Immersed, cooked and gently boiled : SIMMERED
18-down – Apt to be not on the level : INCLINED
20-down – Think of a number : FIGURE
21-down – Shout about jellied eel in the salad, perhaps : CELERY
22-down – Upwards of 101 meeting points : FOCI
23-down – It does twice daily turns at coastal resorts : TIDE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22546 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22546 clues and answers were published on Fri 14 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22546 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Oriental ruler chasing unusual sea bird : EASTERNER
10-across – Domestic right for a poet : HOMER
11-across – Unenlightened article on battle in a foreign one : UNAWARE
12-across – Drawbridge made of copper in a Swiss city : BASCULE
13-across – Very keen now about six : AVID
14-across – Ted ate tuna salad, becoming thin : ATTENUATED
16-across – Offhand, despicable people love going by railway : CURSORY
17-across – Turn coy, ending up in a state? : COUNTRY
19-across – Hastily running pipe round mobile home : SCAMPERINO
22-across – Excellent woman objects : AIMS
24-across – Work on Act I upset student of vision : OPTICAL
25-across – Wine found amongst the clarets in any cellar : RETSINA
26-across – Follow to make certain ringleader’s gone : ENSUE
27-across – Nursed by a famous female singer I dropped off : CHERISHED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Patron from the nearby army depot? : REGULARCUSTOMER
2-down – One training fruit producers? : ESPALIER
3-down – Crossword compiler raised boy’s honour : MEDAL
4-down – Can re-order new tyres on-line : ANCESTRY
5-down – Are including a bull at both ends, fit for ploughing : ARABLE
6-down – Dictionary he’s taken into the Bull : THESAURUS
7-down – Supply a slide : AMOUNT
8-down – Finds Des in rally, travelling around Tonga : FRIENDLYISLANDS
15-down – School functioned, though only taking up a small space : COMPACTED
17-down – Birds on a jail sign : CANARIES
18-down – Decline to take unmarried twin to fair : TWILIGHT
20-down – Demonstrate some ideas Watt established : ATTEST
21-down – Widow’s souvenir tin-opener : RELICT
23-down – Way to help to become sober : STAID

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22545 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22545 clues and answers were published on Thu 13 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22545 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – A word from Mary, coming from the heart : CALAIS
5-across – I really don’t know what I expect a frisker to do : SEARCHME
9-across – Creamy dish, mostly also known as Greek food : MOUSSAKA
10-across – Reprimand despicable person in the course of social occasion : BERATE
11-across – This puma moves around river repeatedly – as may this creature : HIPPOPOTAMUS
13-across – It’s by no means rare to get praise : WELL
14-across – Sinner always embracing form of idol : EVILDOER
17-across – What steeplejack must do as manoeuvre : CONSPIRE
18-across – Noisy insect put off shy person : CLAM
20-across – One sitting on the bench gets set alight by the match? : BUNSENBURNER
23-across – Something sharp – one with cold’s swallowed the medicine : BICARB
24-across – TV shows African dictator being given boot, terribly cross : IDIOTBOX
25-across – No hunter is out to become like the one being hunted : ONTHERUN
26-across – Writing doctrine as laid down by saint : SCREED

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – First half of encyclopedia that’s been split : ATOM
3-down – Has clues possibly about play’s ending – as supplied by dramatist : AESCHYLUS
4-down – Agent going without sleep is irritable : SNAPPY
5-down – Suspension suspension? : STAYOFEXECUTION
6-down – Aroma is spreading around middle of table – terrific food : AMBROSIA
7-down – American agency situated outside old city court in Rome : CURIA
8-down – Old fellow with lots of bottle : METHUSELAH
12-down – Duke heading off rebellion with transfer of authority : DEVOLUTION
15-down – A month with a big talker? One may go up the wall! : DECORATOR
16-down – Famous Roman watering hole coloured vermilion : CINNABAR
19-down – Rock agreeable to the audience : GNEISS
21-down – Reduce rent : SLASH
22-down – See 13 : DONE

This crossword has in total 27 where 14 are across and 13 are down.

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22544 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22544 clues and answers were published on Wed 12 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22544 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – I call the regulator: infer I’m badly placed : FISHOUTOFWATER
8-across – What may need breaking – no point – I take too many cuppas : THEIC
9-across – This 1 across can still see – a clever postscript : ANABLEPS
11-across – Breaking of rules of grammar by editor in person? : OURSELF
12-across – Home bird? I t-take what’s coming to me : INHERIT
13-across – Mog backing it? Not saying : TACIT
15-across – Church line about pollution can’t go wrong : CERTAINTY
17-across – I take 1 across : MERGANSER
20-across – I take 1 across : BOOBY
21-across – Ear’s in, ear out – lovely stuff! : EROTICA
23-across – What Brummel called the Prince, with dire results : FATALLY
25-across – Emperor with a Gallic turn, possibly : CALIGULA
26-across – Beast took a pill – no charge! : OKAPI
27-across – Block to let characters from Butlin’s get Mondays off : STUMBLINGSTONE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Set off with permit to control outbursts : FITSOFTEMPER
2-down – Cut the end off 1 across to take 1 across : SHEAR
3-down – Gold box used by painters and musicians : ORCHESTRA
4-down – Deal with cars on road : TRAFFIC
5-down – TV counsellor could be fairer about Zen leader : FRAZIER
6-down – Everyone’s expression is divine : ALLAH
7-down – Telepathy time? Not when it’s twisting the tongue : ESPERANTO
10-down – Two years’ bedsits may evoke Don’t leave me from carol singer : STAYBYMYSIDE
14-down – I take 1 across as part of flower or insect : CORMORANT
16-down – I take 1 across at sea in the Antarctic, under a pound : ALBATROSS
18-down – I take 1 across: beast who does so is about to pull up : SEAGULL
19-down – Hold back the chorus : REFRAIN
22-down – How to talk about instincts? Me? Coming up! : IDIOM
24-down – Welsh church organ’s first step recorded : LLANO

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22543 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22543 clues and answers were published on Tue 11 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22543 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Pooch eating a particle, which makes a change : MUTATION
9-across – Expenditure on song that’s no longer popular : OUTLAY
10-across – One in Grub Street getting the chop : HACK
11-across – Giant growth on border of America : POLYPHEMUS
12-across – Is French woman featured in Scripture? : ESTHER
14-across – Inner layer of final lines To an Empty Room : ENDODERM
15-across – Lacking coherence, fight plenty but lose fast : SCRAPPY
17-across – Supply seafood in vessel? On the contrary : FURNISH
20-across – Composer adds backing part to male solo : BACHELOR
22-across – Decide about the Spanish lane : RUELLE
23-across – Has time in fancy with the flow : DOWNSTREAM
24-across – Deliver blow to party : BASH
25-across – Fall ill, catching bovine disease, and plummet : ABSEIL
26-across – Subtract from catering outlet : TAKEAWAY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Where junior dinosaur packs roam, Don having fled : JURASSIC
2-down – See 1 : PARK
3-down – Fish for a light sleeper : KIPPER
4-down – Applying undue force, learner becomes detached : UNGLUED
5-down – Former president makes ceremonial marriage vow underground : POMPIDOU
6-down – Turn out in time for old TV newsreel? : ATTENDANCE
7-down – Car fever nearly filling container : JAGUAR
13-down – Recruiting agent, or master of foxhounds? : HEADHUNTER
16-down – With respect to broken tile in former place of learning : POLITELY
18-down – Central European is turning on heartless islander : SILESIAN
19-down – Curious attire for a ditty : ARIETTA
21-down – A second Lincoln brought up as a simple being : AMOEBA
22-down – New version in which debauchee swallows measure : REMAKE
24-down – Radiate support : BEAM

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

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