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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22424 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22424 clues and answers were published on Wed 23 Jan 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22424 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Short break for the tired heart, you might say? : BREATHER
9-across – Former pupil and priest, daggers drawn : OBELI
10-across – Stone circles rolled over : OPAL
11-across – Set up hot network at proper meeting place : RIGHTANGLE
12-across – See 22 down : ASLAMB
14-across – Actor and llama’s relative almost totally in love : ALPACINO
15-across – See 22 down : DRESSED
17-across – : AWOLFIN
20-across – Pretender wants partisan exposed : ASPIRANT
22-across – River enters the sea at a harbour : MARINA
23-across – Concerned with flag, soldiers last to effect withdrawal : RETIREMENT
24-across – All round sport! : SUMO
25-across – Heavenly body is hell : PLUTO
26-across – See 17 : CLOTHING

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – In favour of model, one suggests : PROPOSER
2-down – Whoever wrote this dog’s dinner must be round the bend! : PAUL
3-down – Sweet Baby puts singer on the dole : CHERUB
4-down – Country teacher promoted by University? Yes! : URUGUAY
5-down – Boxer getting beaten up? So what! : SOUTHPAW
6-down – Vulgar words recur with naval orders : VERNACULAR
7-down – Producer of music by wartime singer is heard : VIOLIN
13-down – Fortunate to see a dodgy leader dismissed : AUSPICIOUS
16-down – Subject of musical opera never missing Royal Performance : EVAPERON
18-down – Shame in my going topless? Shameful! : IGNOMINY
19-down – Distort time : STRETCH
21-down – See 17 : SHEEPS
22-down – : MUTTON
24-down – Part of central London, then little accommodation? : SOHO

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22423 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22423 clues and answers were published on Tue 22 Jan 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22423 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – It means many are confused about meaning : SEMANTIC
9-across – Magnificent group knowing a little? : HEPTAD
10-across – Tuesday or Wednesday, when pupil comes in : WELD
11-across – Once no lady could become a writer : CONANDOYLE
12-across – Flinch from having bell in church : CRINGE
14-across – Attempt sitar badly before achieving creative elegance : ARTISTRY
15-across – Wounded boy turns in his gun : SMITTEN
17-across – New Year honours for a composer : JANACEK
20-across – It is lowered for landing : ALTITUDE
22-across – The ego trip for a poet? : GOETHE
23-across – Pam is a girl – unfortunately that’s been used before : PLAGIARISM
24-across – Daring to speak of a way out : BOLD
25-across – Smooth diplomat stops short at nothing : LEGATO
26-across – Showing improvement when put under treatment : UPTURNED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Flora, say, hindered 26 by wire : TELEGRAM
2-down – Shakespeare, perhaps, or Bacon? : BARD
3-down – Jewish spice gives lift to alien musical : STACTE
4-down – Malicious gossip fell on cultivated land : SCANDAL
5-down – A teach-in, first to last on drink : CHINATEA
6-down – Kinky model in parsonage providing a show up front : APRONSTAGE
7-down – Norman armour used by the sovereign : MAILER
13-down – City man upset over tonight’s performance : NOTTINGHAM
16-down – Master European currency : EDUCATOR
18-down – The elder displayed another millennium disaster : ETHELRED
19-down – Cards involving complicated quiz in spelling test : BEZIQUE
21-down – They grow to be worthy of consideration : LILIES
22-down – State measure for reproductive material : GAMETE
24-down – Sound prospect for conveyance of neat dwelling : BYRE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22422 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22422 clues and answers were published on Mon 21 Jan 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22422 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Recorded snub : PUTDOWN
5-across – A house on mains supply : MANSION
10-across – Capital invested in Czechoslovakia : OSLO
11-across – Way-out of the theatre : AVANTGARDE
12-across – High range of service provided : MASSIF
13-across – Taking a stroll after midnight is taking a risk : GAMBLING
14-across – Cease to insist on the latest news : STOPPRESS
16-across – A sweet sort of baby : JELLY
17-across – Stretch over the end of the desk and chastise : SPANK
19-across – Just buying and selling : FAIRTRADE
23-across – Near fortune acquired through luck : BYCHANCE
24-across – Recovery vessel – put out in it : UPTURN
26-across – Where to yawn, when it’s late : BEHINDHAND
27-across – Post of bodyguard : MAIL
28-across – Wrested apart and scattered : STREWED
29-across – Broken spy ring likely to bounce back : SPRINGY

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Pushy type for the high jump : UPSTART
3-down – The wastage is very large among doctors : DROSS
4-down – Term commonly used for a thrashing – why? : WHATFOR
6-down – Fall to the Americans : AUTUMN
7-down – Perhaps a pony is a matter of no consequence : SMALLBEER
8-down – A number making a noise in examination : ORDINAL
9-down – A plan that goes into great detail : LARGESCALEMAP
15-down – Joke will end with a periodical row : PUNCHLINE
18-down – An empty new settlement : PAYMENT
20-down – Gather that the boxer is slightly in the lead? : ROUNDUP
21-down – Saving Grace : DARLING
22-down – Near the brink and very nervous : ONEDGE
25-down – Uplifted, achieved very good times : TEMPI

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22420 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22420 clues and answers were published on Fri 18 Jan 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22420 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Delight in being on board, with drinks : SWALLOWS
5-across – Produces personal beads for old soldiers : SWEATS
9-across – Departures to see Mona Lisa taken out around end of Louvre : ANOMALIES
11-across – D note wrong? Try this bowing aid : RESIN
12-across – Expert on the rocks in one kingdom : MINERALOGIST
15-across – Dash from the lane : ELAN
16-across – Self-regard of youth who found himself winning on the pools? : NARCISSISM
18-across – Huntingdon, perhaps, could have been one in a hundred : COUNTYTOWN
19-across – Change course in desert : TURN
21-across – Perverted senorita game to join couple in this household : MENAGEATROIS
24-across – The French hail and farewell : LEAVE
25-across – Uproot a tree, acid-damaged : ERADICATE
26-across – Loath to write a poem? : AVERSE
27-across – Second horn’s baggage : STRUMPET

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Tarry rope : STAY
2-down – Rising star of the county : AVON
3-down – Principal shortened introduction to subject : LEADIN
4-down – Footballers here wealthier than management? : WHITEHARTLANE
6-down – Old soldier’s row over the cavalry : WARHORSE
7-down – Encouraging suspect given new start : AUSPICIOUS
8-down – Affected holiness my canonist corrected : SANCTIMONY
10-down – Old Bill’s ferreting licence? : SEARCHWARRANT
13-down – Pleasing thing to amble out for a dessert : PEACHMELBA
14-down – Malice aunt spread to denigrate : CALUMNIATE
17-down – This disease of horses throws one off balance : STAGGERS
20-down – Setting in the middle of Paris : MILIEU
22-down – Victor, leaving hospital, is affected : CAMP
23-down – Bag to make one’s cup of tea : BENT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22419 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22419 clues and answers were published on Thu 17 Jan 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22419 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Expert sticking to specific plants and animals : BUFFALOES
6-across – Basin or sink? : STOOP
9-across – Medical professional has the assailant on film : PSYCHOTHERAPIST
10-across – Cart in enclosed space turned round : DRAY
11-across – Soak is husband? That’s rather exaggerated! : STEEPISH
14-across – Stay and calm down? : DEFERMENT
15-across – Taking unfamiliar way, gets lost in the mountains : RANGE
16-across – Having killed son with violence, swings : SLEWS
18-across – Pornographic material in this draft : BLUEPRINT
20-across – Enid’s response? : FEEDBACK
21-across – Cut by sharp weapon, or shot? : STAB
25-across – Admitting error on taking in what one has said : EATINGONESWORDS
26-across – With temperature and skin disorder, takes to bunk : TRASH
27-across – Bit of a bloomer admitting setback for senior politicians : STATESMEN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – One footing it, perhaps, in an attempt to take exercise : BIPED
2-down – Position in rugby for TSE? : FLYHALF
3-down – Grey does give a toss : ASHY
4-down – Billy’s eclipsing top seed : OATS
5-down – From outset, wait uncomfortably for the result : SWEATITOUT
6-down – Farms in US maybe succeeded following cut after cut : SSARECROPS
7-down – View of one of those known to be fully knowledgeable holding good : OPINION
8-down – Tap round rib area, including heart finally in this investigation : PATCHTEST
12-down – Form to mark with an X for seats for independent parliamentarians : CROSSBENCH
13-down – Fellow at top university’s concerned with plants : HERBACEOUS
14-down – Resolution to face duke : DISAFFECT
17-down – Take nothing away from German prince with a complex daughter : ELECTRA
19-down – For limited period, looking healthy and full of energy : INTERIM
22-down – 1 across performing after Encore : BISON
23-down – Our mother, by Jove! : LEDA
24-down – Very pretty is Peg when carrying little weight : TWEE

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

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