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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22471 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22471 clues and answers were published on Tue 19 Mar 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22471 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Pick up lock key then lay down : ASSERT
4-across – Covert introduction of Scripture to cult : SECRET
9-across – Lisa is keener, they say : MONA
10-across – Division intended to report after leave : DEPARTMENT
11-across – Flicks off hospital machine switch : CINEMA
12-across – 2 type of beetle : COLORADO
13-across – The pledge of confinement : COMMITTAL
15-across – The last charge to Jerusalem : ZION
16-across – Middlebrows regret backing common currency : EURO
17-across – They’ll make short work of things : ABRIDGERS
21-across – Absurd ambition, not one to end in a province : MANITOBA
22-across – Washington Irving’s hollow shelter bagged by mole : SLEEPY
24-across – Cut out the occasionally Prussian style of skirt : BLUEPENCIL
25-across – See 27 : FREE
26-across – He has the power to cut blades – grass? : DESPOT
27-across – : ORANGE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Roman Io stirred Cupid : AMORINO
2-down – See 27 : STATE
3-down – All lit up in rave to raise charity : RADIANT
5-down – Strangely overlooked old solvers smuggling currency : EERILY
6-down – Commentary about the mother of two monarchs : REMARKING
7-down – Au fait with top Newcastle United form? : TUNEDIN
8-down – Tony Short added fungi raised on the farm as part of the bill : SPECIALBRANCH
14-down – Depressed spirit sinks off without energy into the gloom : MURKINESS
16-down – Given new powers, penal centre became sanguinary : ENABLED
18-down – Endlessly abuse a right to be withdrawn : INSULAR
19-down – Flush out Peter, the French prisoner : REPLETE
20-down – For example, lead and drive high up, finding top gear : BOLERO
23-down – Dainty morsel of mackerel, finely sliced : ELFIN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22466 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22466 clues and answers were published on Wed 13 Mar 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22466 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Polish figure by Italian crossing : RUBICON
5-across – A show-off, the bounder : PRANCER
9-across – Stoker catches a quarter of the fish : BREAM
10-across – Dressed to kill, perhaps, either sex established : UNIFORMED
11-across – Lack of warmth shown by a French fan is almost icy : UNENTHUSIASTIC
13-across – Vessel heard turning in the wind : VANE
14-across – Quiet walkway will be costlier to reconstruct : CLOISTER
17-across – Young creature getting comfortable : NESTLING
18-across – Flag officer chases group of women : WILT
21-across – Large, thick, oboe-shaped vegetable : GLOBEARTICHOKE
23-across – Wretched diner gets into muddle: what a performance : RENDITION
24-across – Impish fellow going into the river backwards : ELFIN
25-across – Confer the right name : ENTITLE
26-across – Coming back, traveller in time met the Devil : TEMPTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Dress up for York : ROBE
2-down – Obsession with buzzing in the head? : BEEINONESBONNET
3-down – Bond that puts compiler in the money : CEMENT
4-down – Swap hearts for ace and get a chewy sweet for nothing : NOUGHT
5-down – Line in nautical footwear? : PLIMSOLL
6-down – A name-dropping sentimentalist, fragrantly distinctive : AROMATIC
7-down – Chance upon an idea: be there with a little drink to introduce slender Annan : COMETOTHINKOFIT
8-down – Marxist city with gold goddess needs to change the colour scheme : REDECORATE
12-down – Graven data could be innovative : AVANTGARDE
15-down – A man upset by first one concerned with mental illness : ALIENIST
16-down – Pep up with a small measure before the soldiers come in : ENERGISE
19-down – Nothing around to catch the bird : LINNET
20-down – Indifference to whatever you may cough up? : PHLEGM
22-down – Proboscis not beginning to rise creates a knot : KNUR

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22465 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22465 clues and answers were published on Tue 12 Mar 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22465 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Set for scan? Why? : READY
10-across – Yoko has no news about being solo : ONONESOWN
11-across – Before start of race, punter is richer : BETTEROFF
12-across – Get rid of 500 yen : DITCH
13-across – Swiss city takes in one Italian artist : BERNINI
15-across – Crazy blunders involving knucklehead : BONKERS
17-across – Airy-fairy? : SYLPH
18-across – Not quite a royal family : KIN
20-across – Exemplary poser : MODEL
22-across – Transport me with large hamper : TRAMMEL
25-across – Paddy has so much French spirit : TANTRUM
26-across – Shoot a descendant : SCION
27-across – Colour that’s in, in inn in France : AUBERGINE
30-across – Plastic switch needed for telephony : POLYTHENE
31-across – A star of professional golf : ALGOL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Lacklustre send-up of Shakespeare : DRAB
2-down – Country work that’s also part recreation : PASTORAL
3-down – Twenty pence contribution? That’s kind! : TYPE
4-down – Robert Oppenheimer’s first association with a songbird : BOBOLINK
5-down – Deceive with terrific talk : CONFAB
6-down – I am England’s new star : LEADINGMAN
7-down – German writer introducing German article about Old English : GOETHE
8-down – Advance slowly and cautiously, or steal quietly away : INCH
13-down – Prince finally among the creme de la creme. Harry? : BESET
14-down – Heartlessness and senselessness about olfactory offensiveness : INHUMANITY
16-down – Port in northern Massachusetts, beer in southern Massachusetts, initially : SALEM
19-down – Worthies revealing why schoolchildren are innumerate? : NOTABLES
21-down – Wendy’s family pets : DARLINGS
23-down – Failed to move away from home : AFIELD
24-down – Well-heeled or well-oiled? Such a question is unfair : LOADED
26-down – Silly ass holding head of pin for pinheads : SAPS
28-down – It’s 5.5 yards, going round one way : ROAD
29-down – Fish see reflection over lake : EELS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22464 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22464 clues and answers were published on Mon 11 Mar 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22464 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Language that provides neat prose : ESPERANTO
10-across – Round safety devise that’s practicable : OFUSE
11-across – She is expected to succeed : HEIRESS
12-across – Small number performing for 24 hours – 12 in fact : NOONDAY
13-across – Musician wanted a meal right away : SUPPE
14-across – What a taxi driver may do? That’s a lot of rubbish! : REFUSETIP
16-across – Who’ll go first? : LEADINGQUESTION
19-across – Precipitate way the staff leave school assembly? : HEADFIRST
21-across – Barrels used for target practice : BUTTS
22-across – Officer cut off in pass : COLONEL
23-across – Short dress on mother, to say the least : MINIMUM
24-across – Outcast reflects the way people treat him : LEPER
25-across – Going out, Nigel’s not the only one in a suit : SINGLETON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Old man provides me with so sound an uplift : METHUSELAH
2-down – Vegetable only half-cooked? : SPLITPEA
3-down – Remain perfectly still and go cold all over : FREEZE
4-down – Objects and doesn’t go on : ENDS
5-down – Located the cause of the trouble and criticised : FOUNDFAULT
6-down – Company with deficit states huge figure : COLOSSUS
7-down – Wiseacre makes a witticism, spoken in French : PUNDIT
8-down – Fed up youngsters beginning to flout authority : DEFY
14-down – Lacking respect, notwithstanding : REGARDLESS
15-down – Dostoevsky’s partner in crime : PUNISHMENT
17-down – Uniformed footmen : INFANTRY
18-down – Personal hint : INTIMATE
20-down – Like to run when so inclined : ASLOPE
21-down – Miscalculate and tip a pound note : BUNGLE
22-down – Common complaint of many of advanced years : COLD
23-down – It may flow and sound like the sea : MANE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22462 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22462 clues and answers were published on Fri 08 Mar 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22462 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

5-across – To be a spiritual healer, a fellow needs quiet to start with : SHAMAN
6-across – Jubilant journalist keeps running behind schedule : ELATED
9-across – Glass paper : MIRROR
10-across – Once again get hold of fruit good for plucking : REENGAGE
11-across – Nautical equipment made of hard wood : HELM
12-across – Strange lady embracing another female on French street – very strange lady! : DANNYLARUE
13-across – Irregular act by recipient of VC, one for ever smiling : CHESHIRECAT
18-across – Drift of stuff that is grey or black, leading to repeated precipitation around break of day : BRAINDRAIN
21-across – Country artist without measure of intelligence? On the contrary : IRAQ
22-across – House with a leak initially allowing in rain a little? One may feel bad staying there : HOSPITAL
23-across – Sly person, but with support : WEASEL
24-across – Old poet – male bastard, one gathered : HESIOD
25-across – A place where silence was demanded by a female writer? : AGATHA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Express disapproval when Lyttelton entertains a bishop : HARRUMPH
2-down – Zany, unending journey in foreign city : MADRID
3-down – Chemical drink, containing hint of devilry, transformed doctor : ALDEHYDE
4-down – Magistrate not to think much of terrible disgrace : STIGMA
5-down – Son wants meat – not a chunky bit : SLIVER
7-down – Uprooted shelter by sports field : DUGOUT
8-down – Father and grotesque friend in panic mode : FRANTICALLY
14-down – Sun, one particular paper for troublemaking? : SEDITION
15-down – One who saw 13 eating insect in part of Spain : ALICANTE
16-down – What sounds like open clasp : BROOCH
17-down – Woman prepared meal for old man to eat : PAMELA
19-down – I am given job in tax : IMPOST
20-down – Modern movement born to accommodate someone who’s funny : NEWAGE

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

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