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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22542 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22542 clues and answers were published on Mon 10 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22542 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Douglas’s pet? : MANXCAT
5-across – Persued by two boys : CHASED
9-across – Switch the spot dance as part of a pattern : POLKADOT
10-across – Current file : STREAM
12-across – House address : STAGEWHISPER
15-across – Rent as new, holding key as duplicate : TRANSCRIBE
17-across – Fifty follows forty-nine? Well, no! : ILL
19-across – Pass for an officer : COL
20-across – They reveal the stars in all their splendour : SPOTLIGHTS
22-across – Horse-racing is the thing for Cambridge college : SPORTOFKINGS
26-across – Eye disease – girl catches it : IRITIS
27-across – How one bounces back after being fired : RICOCHET
28-across – Defect in the hose used by firemen : LADDER
29-across – Showing unusual maturity, but lacking a certain element : YTTRIUM

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Cleans up after many quick operations : MOPS
2-down – Duck seen on English river : NILE
3-down – Whip – it’s raised in hunting : CHASTISE
4-down – Hothead in Chinese secret society gets the lash : THONG
6-down – It secures a superior item for ladies : HATPIN
7-down – Have one nightcap too many? : SLEEPTIGHT
8-down – Uttered in a death rattle : DEMORALISE
11-down – It’s cheap for Americans : TWOBIT
13-down – Unmoving shares to cultivate : STOCKSTILL
14-down – Remember to ring for a baby-sitter? : CALLTOMIND
16-down – Tearaway’s con trick : RIPOFF
18-down – Support for the Royal Mail? : KINGPOST
21-down – All-out hit : STRIKE
23-down – Mediterranean island’s toplessness observed frostily : ICILY
24-down – Tongue of land joining Cambodia and Myanmar : THAI
25-down – Spring associated with flowers : STEM

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22540 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22540 clues and answers were published on Fri 07 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22540 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Haste leading to downfall : PRECIPITATION
10-across – Is on a par with study about fancy dress : CAPARISON
11-across – Permission to resign : LEAVE
12-across – Nothing green is apparent : OVERT
13-across – Never still on world body’s day off : UNRESTING
14-across – US miler collapses in chaos : MISRULE
16-across – Real ink may be thinner : LANKIER
18-across – Art movement is mad about assent in Russia : DADAISM
20-across – Clergyman is to run about town in Italy : TREVISO
21-across – Self-restrained mood at tea break : TEMPERATE
23-across – Memorial to a dog : CAIRN
24-across – Gorse destroyed by monsters : OGRES
25-across – Recent pie cooked over middle point : EPICENTRE
26-across – Officially approve their bedrolls for show : BLESSTHEBRIDE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Restrained eastern journalists about colour : REPRESSED
3-down – Artist right about bird : COROT
4-down – Drunken sot in chaste pose : POSTURE
5-down – Part of plant I lent doctor by mistake : TENDRIL
6-down – Speak logically, though seen to be upset after discussions : TALKSENSE
7-down – Took a piece, or part, of animal : OKAPI
8-down – Settlement in lodgings : ACCOMMODATION
9-down – Two soldiers, for example, rising against detection equipment : GEIGERCOUNTER
15-down – Worlds depicted in one piece of poetry about sunburst : UNIVERSES
17-down – Tied it in a knot and began : INITIATED
19-down – Average set turning out to be least generous : MEANEST
20-down – If you want it, ask a policeman if he has it : THETIME
22-down – The point of a story or lesson : MORAL
23-down – Shout for food : CHEER

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22539 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22539 clues and answers were published on Thu 06 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22539 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Tried to get recipe to go in cooker : STROVE
4-across – Army officer around in the Mediterranean? : MAJORCA
9-across – Angered about obligations incurred when high : DELIRIOUS
10-across – He could be nothing more than a lady-killer : ROMEO
11-across – They could be prickly about theatre opening : CACTI
12-across – Little boy once got 4 for a tanner : DANDYPRAT
13-across – What to do at university? : READING
15-across – The old chaps one may find in Aden : YEMENI
17-across – Debilitated by careless action : ATONIC
19-across – War leader influences fashion : WINSTON
22-across – Taking part in course with no student finishing? : COMPETING
24-across – Panic in jolly fashion : ALARM
26-across – It’s contrived to act as service dress : COTTA
27-across – Position of a yes-man with a view to advancement : PROMOTION
28-across – Educated woman’s witty sally about a strait-laced type : PURITAN
29-across – First person’s love rejected in India : MYSORE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – From whom one may need to be rescued : SEDUCER
2-down – Venerable object held by Roman priest : RELIC
3-down – Colour of lubricant swallowed up by pests : VERMILION
4-down – Virgin clasped child in brotherhood : MASONRY
5-down – He may be slapdash in assembling : JERRY
6-down – Artist keeps trademark during new term : REMBRANDT
7-down – A taste one has for a rodent : AGOUTI
8-down – Not ultimately the good cooked meal : HOTDOG
14-down – About time to change aircraft accessory : ALTIMETER
16-down – It’s de rigueur to be male and right-wing : MANDATORY
18-down – Saintly snob? : CRISPIN
19-down – Cart came first without a horse : WAGGON
20-down – Subject of a put-up job? : NOMINEE
21-down – It might help to keep a cool head? : ICECAP
23-down – Old law was strict : EXACT
25-down – Have a fighter round as a friend : AMIGO

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22538 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22538 clues and answers were published on Wed 05 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22538 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Spirit with cordial : FAMILIAR
5-across – See 2 : BRANDO
9-across – About to take detour perhaps? : REROUTED
10-across – Actress featuring in The Italian Job, we hear : MINNIE
11-across – Razor blade passed round melon, one with supposed living matter : BIOGENIC
12-across – See 20 : MATURE
14-across – Storm punctuated by storms with a domestic clear-out : GARAGESALE
18-across – Mutant canine tuna, say : ANNUNCIATE
22-across – See 10 : DRIVER
23-across – Little piece of boy, a girl : SONATINA
24-across – Disgraced shopaholic, one to associate closely with a stain on island : IMELDA
25-across – Topless sexy person embraced in amorous fashion : ROMANTIC
26-across – Automatic character put together by acting musician : GEORGE
27-across – Claims girl has been grabbed by boy : DECLARES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – See 26 : FORMBY
2-down – Actor in manure working to make love : MARLON
3-down – Fashion designer and graduate name actress : LAUREN
4-down – Bitter substance’s name turns up in tree, almost dead : ACETICACID
6-down – Use train that’s unreliable, seeking damages : RUINATES
7-down – Elderly relative seizes on smell that’s unlike her own : NONHUMAN
8-down – Fully aware of golf tournament I’d spoken of : OPENEYED
13-down – Foodie dwarf eating ham roast : GASTRONOME
15-down – Bounder desperate for a job when playing around, we hear? : CADDYING
16-down – Hapless character transported on the air : ANTIHERO
17-down – Likely loser and German gored badly : UNDERDOG
19-down – See 3 : BACALL
20-down – Winner demanding seasoned actor : VICTOR
21-down – See 24 : MARCOS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22537 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22537 clues and answers were published on Tue 04 Jun 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22537 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Pedro shocks her, breaking farm worker’s implement : SHEPHERDSCROOK
9-across – Russia can rebuild – that’s upbeat! : ANACRUSIS
10-across – Dim speculator keeps little : BLEAR
11-across – Duck breathing in tree : OLIVE
12-across – Exaggerate deliveries to gallery : OVERSTATE
13-across – Study shows doctor is English : TREATISE
14-across – Mineral remains first on land : ASHORE
17-across – Great power of representative in republic : EMPIRE
19-across – Sweet girl embraced by youth in charge : CHERUBIC
22-across – Amaze tedious person with river or sea creature : ROCKBORER
24-across – Hidden in a paper duster : PERDU
25-across – See giant hedge : STALL
26-across – Adversary turning up in far-flung surroundings : DISPUTANT
27-across – Vance led art and design for item posted early for Christmas : ADVENTCALENDAR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Punishment when worthiest plans go wrong : SLAPONTHEWRIST
2-down – Chop up egg for vet : EXAMINE
3-down – Spider Woman keeps a bible : HARVESTER
4-down – Peer?’s son formulated reply : RESPONSE
5-down – Definite plan for Seychelles dam : SYSTEM
6-down – Puzzle about public transport : REBUS
7-down – Plant spectacles on mad king’s daughter : OREGANO
8-down – Lawyer oversees measure against film : BRIEFENCOUNTER
15-down – Chapter quaintly cut in certain religious works : SCRIPTURE
16-down – Fish scholar touring Iceland has magnetism : CHARISMA
18-down – Duck for vegetable under river : POCHARD
20-down – Bishop might help attendant : BARMAID
21-down – Have faith in good exam result : CREDIT
23-down – Anger about gallons of dirty water : BILGE

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

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