Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22496 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22496 clues and answers were published on Wed 17 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22496 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Number of singers about fifty : CHLORAL
5-across – From orphan to mother – that’s the spirit! : PHANTOM
9-across – Ecclesiastical title getting high honour is poison : VENOM
10-across – Exclusive physicist in water needs waterproof : TARPAULIN
11-across – Male has trouble with note about female model in first boat : HEADOFTHERIVER
13-across – Love is painful when wrongly directed : EROS
14-across – Conclusive instructors of actors in film : LASTRADA
17-across – Shrub with 6 and I say, a moving grove : VIBURNUM
18-across – Tick over – no good? : IDLE
21-across – Union negotiator puts down indicator about one in fury with comrade : MARRIAGEBROKER
23-across – Old tiara bought initially off the back of a lorry : TAILBOARD
24-across – Comment of stable relationship among those next door? : NEIGH
25-across – Harlot has gold – which is in character? Not quite : LORETTE
26-across – Theme that has to be mastered : SUBJECT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Look out from hiding-place? : CAVE
2-down – Gunner with a stripe provides a cobbler with a minder : LANCEBOMBARDIER
3-down – Cure for extreme dyslexia : REMEDY
4-down – Don’t punish the French gentleman : LETOFF
5-down – Role call: solution, fiery exit line : PARTHIAN
6-down – Promptitude, city style, to embrace the right : ALACRITY
7-down – It isn’t given to us, they say: leave wooden bits out : TOLOVEANDBEWISE
8-down – One delving below the surface without fear – a psychologist? : MINDREADER
12-down – The big guns of rock : HEAVYMETAL
15-down – Flighty creature finds berries on the willow : FRUITBAT
16-down – Bellowed, kind of sneezed, and whistled : OUTGRABE
19-down – Homes for bloke in rising water : ABODES
20-down – Associate goblin with aristocrat : HOBNOB
22-down – See 5 : SHOT

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22495 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22495 clues and answers were published on Tue 16 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22495 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Late shop? : FUNERAL
5-across – See 1 : PARLOUR
9-across – Hermit endlessly rejected Indonesian buyer’s furs : ERMINES
10-across – Fruit supplier made love to cleaner in street! : ORCHARD
11-across – Increasing exercises, needing to run around : DEEPENING
12-across – Charming old lady caught embracing US soldier : MAGIC
13-across – I reckon to retire with 100 to score : MUSIC
15-across – One Parisian prepared to be stripped : UNDRESSED
17-across – They show off flat and nurse shudders! : FLAUNTERS
19-across – Brown tin-opener, one intrinsic flaw : TAINT
22-across – When reversing car in, say a prayer : GRACE
23-across – Least tight, less loose : SLIGHTEST
25-across – Millions in club backed our embroidery : TAMBOUR
26-across – State home help returns to North America : INDIANA
27-across – Studying good girls may improve one’s looks : READING
28-across – See 27 : GLASSES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Guerrilla fed eight former members badly : FREEDOM
2-down – Good book for figures : NUMBERS
3-down – Get up around noon and wash : RINSE
4-down – Weariness of girl, one performing duet : LASSITUDE
5-down – Spike has name in programme : PRONG
6-down – Modern university doctor admitted lying down : RECUMBENT
7-down – Fruit in very big field : ORANGES
8-down – Crying for subdued wear to topless bars? : REDUCED
14-down – Food Colin cooked and Anne consumed : CANNELONI
16-down – Loathing pigs, Enid’s going mad! : DESPISING
17-down – See 1 : FIGHTER
18-down – Medical condition I mean to raise in Alcoholics Anonymous : ANAEMIA
20-down – Top in frozen foods all over the polar regions : ICECAPS
21-down – See 8 : TOTEARS
23-down – Shoot second person, to be precise : SPRIG
24-down – Monster water outlet conservationists overlooked : HYDRA

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22494 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22494 clues and answers were published on Mon 15 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22494 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Seamen scowl at the cards : LOWERDECK
10-across – Enter the office uninvited? : USURP
11-across – A coal-burning vessel : BRAZIER
12-across – Papers – the first editions : TISSUES
13-across – They may be held in revulsion : NOSES
14-across – Study secures present church agreement : COHERENCE
16-across – Yet it might have private wards : GENERALHOSPITAL
19-across – Discussion at board level : TABLETALK
21-across – Summoned after parking accident : PRANG
22-across – Collected reference books at jumble sales : ATLASES
23-across – Woodcutter is buried in peace : HATCHET
24-across – Engagement ring? : ARENA
25-across – An unfair comparison : UGLYASSIN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Untrustworthy advice for cheaper air travel : FLYBYNIGHT
2-down – Administers oath to witness showing unusual wariness : SWEARSIN
3-down – One’s characteristics begin holding one up : TRAITS
4-down – Hold up in Paddington, say : BEAR
5-down – In which to find an artist’s early work? : SKETCHBOOK
6-down – How to beat the streaker? : OUTSTRIP
7-down – The gold glow of chestnut : AUBURN
8-down – Love to drink up after work : OPUS
14-down – You may get it in the neck from this boss : COLLARSTUD
15-down – Teaches a number in English, perhaps : ENLIGHTENS
17-down – It may control the oven, when cooking the roast : RHEOSTAT
18-down – Box smart during trial : TEACHEST
20-down – Private accommodation? : BILLET
21-down – Track an Afghan tribesman : PATHAN
22-down – Absent abroad : AWAY
23-down – An overhead light : HALO

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22492 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22492 clues and answers were published on Fri 12 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22492 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Standard of leaking hosepipe to be reported : TRICOLOUR
10-across – See 12 : HEATH
11-across – Sick in 25 : GREEN
12-across – Meat paste turned out hot in the end in 25 : HAMPSTEAD
13-across – Knock three times at door ultimately to open it : RATATAT
14-across – Mystically, so clear they see : ORACLES
17-across – A medium intellect, according to Australian pronouncement? : BRINE
19-across – Ghost writer for the Bard abridged : POE
20-across – School expels head student for a rub down : TOWEL
21-across – Spread what it does around about in 25 : STJAMES
22-across – Touching in front of toilets in 25 : REGENTS
24-across – Sailors in dance, ones taking exercise in their dances? : HORNPIPES
26-across – Quarter of 10 or 3 : NORTH
28-across – Benefactor has no right contributing to party : DONOR
29-across – Checks very difficult to set up again : REINSTALL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Man taking up arms : STAG
2-down – Blunt point : DIRECT
3-down – With the current trend, a woman’s not in need of an order : DOWNSTREAM
4-down – Tossing of pennies: heads and tails, heads… and tails! : TOPHAT
5-down – Particular horse awfully sick in 25 : PRIMROSE
6-down – Questions for sage, or letters read out : WHYS
7-down – Does pool need topping up in 25? : WATERLOW
8-down – A colleague’s been laid off : SHED
13-down – Getting on public transport is a problem : REBUS
15-down – Enemy destroying 1 nation : ANTAGONIST
16-down – Up-and-down performances : SOLOS
18-down – Popular psychologist accepts the teaching of religion may be damaging : INJURING
19-down – With which to admit in France that’s just not cricket : PASSPORT
22-down – 25 for rugby, 24 down we hear : RUSKIN
23-down – Country it’s absolutely not right to enter : NORWAY
24-down – Consecutive characters in comedy have flipped in 25 : HYDE
25-down – Find a space for a public one : PARK
27-down – See 5 : HILL

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22491 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22491 clues and answers were published on Thu 11 Apr 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22491 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Unconventional runs exposed : STREAKS
5-across – Tot doled out in trip? Not half! : TODDLER
9-across – Nellie with bid in play can’t be forgotten : INDELIBLE
10-across – Herb, or another man? : BASIL
11-across – Duck that’s left after meal : TEAL
12-across – It shows what’s currently on : PILOTLIGHT
14-across – Man of power posted abroad : DESPOT
15-across – Seats fixed by the river : SETTEES
16-across – The judge drops repeated lines : REFRAIN
18-across – It’s perfect and it can’t change : INTACT
20-across – Note swelling : PROMINENCE
21-across – Second horse is a drawback : SNAG
24-across – Fix drink around the North : SWING
25-across – A man with name as negotiator or snooper, for example : AGENTNOUN
26-across – Test learner in drill, for instance : EXAMPLE
27-across – Pity about being in a sulk after missing round : REMORSE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Fast flier : SWIFT
2-down – A tirade could be broadcast : RADIATE
3-down – Fitted furniture with top removed : ABLE
4-down – One can live on it? Barely! : SUBSISTENCEWAGE
5-down – Indication of a good beach – no danger in sight : THECOASTISCLEAR
6-down – Reduce power of one bet, detail being incorrect : DEBILITATE
7-down – Dish is a flop in a way : LASAGNE
8-down – Tells stories kept back in reserve : RELATES
13-down – Giving opinion boldly and loudly : SPEAKINGUP
16-down – Quick answer in the Tripos test : RIPOSTE
17-down – State where the keys are : FLORIDA
19-down – In fairness, most of the sweet stuff’s belonging to us : CANDOUR
22-down – Press turns up outside UN and it’s a bit sticky : GUNGE
23-down – Staunch stock : STEM

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

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