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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22516 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22516 clues and answers were published on Fri 10 May 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22516 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Wacky plan involves spinning a disc : MADCAP
5-across – Edward”s about to receive what”s left over from wreck : DERELICT
9-across – Third generation pianos playing : GRANDSON
10-across – Highly narcotic drug several get into : POTENT
11-across – : INTHEMIDSTOF
13-across – See 11 : LIFE
14-across – Model trains in front of container : TEACHEST
17-across – Lug crone to Eastern city of yore : CARTHAGE
18-across – He”s said to display humility : NEIL
20-across – See 11 : WEAREINDEATH
23-across – Old-fashioned place in France : SQUARE
24-across – Greek character to shock bird : NUTHATCH
25-across – Dandy making unseemly haste to tee off : AESTHETE
26-across – Leaderless war engine impeded by chain : ANKLET

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Bringing a brother round for a hairdo : AFRO
3-down – Season puts silly mid-on in the money : CONDIMENT
4-down – Prepared to split vegetable with old coin : PESETA
5-down – Bow and scrape when news is broadcast between balls : DANCEATTENDANCE
6-down – Voting system is interfering with effective counter-attack : REPRISAL
7-down – Plenty flanking underground flower : LOTUS
8-down – So NHS price-fixing needs regulation? : CENSORSHIP
12-down – Episodic resentment involving nurses : PICARESQUE
15-down – It”s a shrewd idea to gamble on one with a handicap : HUNCHBACK
16-down – Inhabitant of the Orient Express initially chasing graduate on railway : BALINESE
19-down – Invocation causing upturn in cunning little war : MANTRA
21-down – Zoroastrian”s source of Sunday lunch? : ROAST
22-down – Hurt the billman : ACHE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22515 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22515 clues and answers were published on Thu 09 May 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22515 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Place soldier as a non-professional : LAYMAN
4-across – Small bird with spotted beak : SAWBILL
9-across – Great to hear about the girl – maybe settle down? : GRAVITATE
10-across – Man without work returning to base : DEPOT
11-across – What’s the weight of this animal? : OUNCE
12-across – Written in elegant style: To a Wild Rose : EGLANTINE
13-across – Almost scary in the fog and dramatically ill-judged : MISCAST
15-across – Anyway, it’s a girl : HANNAH
17-across – Comparatively deranged plant : MADDER
19-across – Energy needed to exercise with trains when it’s very hot : PEPPERY
22-across – Shrill, even for the upper echelon : HIGHLEVEL
24-across – Foreign article contains a whopper! : ALIEN
26-across – Stick to first degree of speed : BATON
27-across – Belt designed by teacher without a wife, so it’s said : SURCINGLE
28-across – Right game is back in the money flow : CURRENT
29-across – One came in over the top; one’s ears are burning! : OTITIS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Space for the French newly-wed? : LEGROOM
2-down – Long tale about the East : YEARN
3-down – Ribbon worn by Girl Orchestra? : ALICEBAND
4-down – Furtiveness in the last movement : STEALTH
5-down – God of Welsh poetry given name : WODEN
6-down – Involve mischievous child with story about 11? : IMPLICATE
7-down – Young family’s mess : LITTER
8-down – Cultivated, the good man is most biddable : TAMEST
14-down – Critic sounds full of disgust at the bloodshed : SLAUGHTER
16-down – Abstainer to swan up to the Prince is tense : NEPHALIST
18-down – The vicar, is it? Call back : REVISIT
19-down – It’s mean to be nosey about an officer : PALTRY
20-down – Look for the state that’s home to a rising baseball team : YANKEES
21-down – Obsessed with getting little imp into photo : PHOBIC
23-down – Drop suddenly, missing the first thrust : LUNGE
25-down – I got put out of northern bar : INGOT

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22514 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22514 clues and answers were published on Wed 08 May 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22514 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Needles’ formation is supplying sea with wee one : STOCKINGSTITCH
9-across – Normal to have one in a record that”s blissful : PARADISIC
10-across – In Truro, remove the old city for a start : INTRO
11-across – Simpson’s attitude turned without wine : RIOJA
12-across – Beast that’s 13 is a pushy one : BULLDOZER
13-across – : SLEEPING
14-across – Longboat’s carrying quills : SPINES
17-across – Foul is done behind the ball : ONSIDE
19-across – One who designed everything in Flat 10 : PALLADIO
22-across – Endearing syrup? : GRENADINE
24-across – Vegetable to do for start of dinner : CHARD
25-across – One’s brief trade with a Mediterranean isle : IBIZA
26-across – Grouse about Grampian town’s 10 : PTARMIGAN
27-across – Write English essay without a hint of colour, energy, or insight : PENETRATINGEYE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Drink to press organisation’s free protection against those charged : SUPPRESSORGRID
2-down – Ceremonious posturing without us in poet’s triumph : OERCOME
3-down – Child was 13 in this story : KIDNAPPED
4-down – Told what roadie does for a bit of tack : NOSEBAND
5-down – Feeble king usurped by one from this island : SICILY
6-down – Paper detailed one uplifting epic : ILIAD
7-down – Incite rioting to protect last Roman, say : CITIZEN
8-down – Post-match, of course : CORRESPONDENCE
15-down – See 13 : POLICEMAN
16-down – Hasten to stay? : MAKEFAST
18-down – No issue is sure when this queen is in step : STERILE
20-down – Gargled with hiccups to make a wet mess : DRAGGLE
21-down – One 13 with the fish : KIPPER
23-down – A festivity for one 13 that’s not 13? : AWAKE

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22513 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22513 clues and answers were published on Tue 07 May 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22513 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Such a mill turned into a one-time home of turns : MUSICHALL
6-across – Beg scoundrel, for example, to come back : CADGE
9-across – Begin to dislike part of pool and show anger : GOOFFTHEDEEPEND
10-across – A measure of insulation with one garment : TOGA
11-across – Animals mainly upset judge’s advisor : ASSESSOR
14-across – Transported sheets by tube? It doesn’t have much hope : PIPEDREAM
15-across – Part of body of actors, or players : TORSO
16-across – Put off one with disease returning : REPEL
18-across – Irregular noises can be experienced in lift-off : ASCENSION
20-across – Head of faculty’s joint Church office : DEANSHIP
21-across – Watch first of tide ebbing in river : TEES
25-across – The winner was expressing an initial consideration : INTHEFIRSTPLACE
26-across – Visitor forecast by audience : GUEST
27-across – Overfed fruit seed, possibly : SURFEITED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Force fighter to have hard time : MIGHT
2-down – Suspend break for a substitute : STOPGAP
3-down – Artist abandoned wine flask in restaurant : CAFE
4-down – Church in a year of suffering : ACHY
5-down – Plant fake on confused society, sadly : LADYSSMOCK
6-down – People with money in general after Cape fruit : CLEMENTINE
7-down – Furniture assistant for actor : DRESSER
8-down – Duck below the bedcover : EIDERDOWN
12-down – An allowance with something to follow up for young person : ADOLESCENT
13-down – Make repairs to stillage: that is the law’s obligations : LEGALITIES
14-down – Sending up staff involved in handing over wages : PARODYING
17-down – Conductor following piano gossip : PRATTLE
19-down – Lacking precision in former undertaking : INEXACT
22-down – Horse finds a way over rising river : STEED
23-down – Performing arts for one in authority : TSAR
24-down – A sitting? Nothing’s cancelled – it’s the recess : APSE

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

Daily Answers

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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