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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22476 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22476 clues and answers were published on Mon 25 Mar 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22476 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Boat that’s easier to move : LIGHTER
5-across – Blind actors hide behind it : CURTAIN
9-across – Trance over cover stories told by Chaucer? : CANTERBURYTALES
10-across – Learns to lose initial gains : EARNS
11-across – Reckless lawman embarrassed by wickedness : DAREDEVIL
12-across – The turn of a doctor to act, having swallowed steak: a real advantage : TRUMPCARD
14-across – Company professional comes back into civil service : CORPS
15-across – What’s yellowish from Pitlochry? : OCHRY
16-across – Making haste in trade, which is not good for workers : SWEATSHOP
18-across – Salt I sprinkled on chap’s magic stones : TALISMANS
21-across – Dishonest scheme to copy, cutting credit : CAPER
22-across – Two-way trading for charity? : BRINGANDBUYSALE
23-across – Tory journalist vindicated : RIGHTED
24-across – A big blow for English MP entering a quiz! : TEMPEST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Finest and most delicate cat lies around : LACIEST
2-down – Kind and supporting the hungry guest’s desire : GENEROUSHELPING
3-down – This religious philosophy requires that they must hold bent hoops : THEOSOPHY
4-down – Fanatical artist attracts an offer : RABID
5-down – The vehicle reaches the crest in this case : CARTRIDGE
6-down – Assessed time taken by favourite going north : RATED
7-down – It’s everywhere, but very disorganised : ALLOVERTHEPLACE
8-down – Seen rising to embrace street lady’s top for cuddles : NESTLES
13-down – Avoided alcohol as a cause of dishonour when lying in a bed : ABSTAINED
14-down – Disaster: cat on moving clay stops miaowing initially : CATACLYSM
15-down – Strong ale brewed once a month : OCTOBER
17-down – Faultless Polish : PERFECT
19-down – Sounds like place is an eyesore : SIGHT
20-down – Stop short of sabotage, but put your foot in it : SABOT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22474 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22474 clues and answers were published on Fri 22 Mar 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22474 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Slides and photographs taken for talk : CHUTES
5-across – Buffer state head meets East European : POLISHER
9-across – Current member’s snobbish, hollow and cocky : IMPUDENT
10-across – Sailing ship makes bay from the sound : BARQUE
11-across – One has placed an order for The Times : CHRONOLOGIST
13-across – Bow taken by little bird? : KNOT
14-across – Rings for ties, American style : SLEEPERS
17-across – Pleased to have one of these flowers, in short : GLADIOLI
18-across – Animal producing beef, good cut : ROAN
20-across – Resigning, reputation having fallen : STANDINGDOWN
23-across – Monastic, or of this world? : OBLATE
24-across – Gun to make soldiers safe, reportedly : REPEATER
25-across – Accelerator can noisily exceed 100 mph? About right! : BETATRON
26-across – That lot banked gold, the result of speculation : THEORY

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Low sound and soft to carry with difficulty : HUMP
3-down – Cut right at end, perhaps : TRUNCATED
4-down – Drink to keep girl on the right lines : SHERRY
5-down – Find touch : PUTONESFINGERON
6-down – Slurred song, gathered round musical instrument : LIBELLED
7-down – Son to Holy Joe is a rare youth : SPRIG
8-down – Horseman breaking a rein, out of the hunt : EQUESTRIAN
12-down – Made to hold in one’s wind, perhaps : INFLATABLE
15-down – Father in tears at time of birth : PARENTAGE
16-down – Bully leading batting order in game : DOMINEER
19-down – Dish in lively nightclub is heartless : HOTPOT
21-down – Lake’s former name is name taken by a state on the up : NYASA
22-down – Take a dim view of mole’s noise : PEER

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22473 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22473 clues and answers were published on Thu 21 Mar 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22473 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Abandon Islam? ‘e could be a latter-day Ishmael : OSAMABINLADEN
10-across – Hitherto unforeseen revelation? : EYEOPENER
11-across – I go out for a shroud here : TURIN
12-across – Relieved of the habit, Mon Pere died : CURED
13-across – Laxness – the Nobel prizewinner was not at one accidental gathering : ICELANDIC
14-across – Deceptively casual about height, me darlin’? : ACUSHLA
16-across – First left in the order : THISTLE
18-across – Plaza-Toro’s domain? : DUKEDOM
20-across – One savouring someone else in the lead : POTHERB
21-across – Whose odes awry Could Hermes try? : RHYMESTER
23-across – One having too much of the one c-cup that cheers? : THEIC
24-across – Could one force John from the White House? : IGLOO
25-across – Capital of Karnataka, or a Bengal development : BANGALORE
26-across – Revolutionary Assizes left spare warrant : LAISSEZPASSER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Incredible brute televised dismantled ship : SHEERHULK
3-down – Two-stroke was cut up : MOPED
4-down – Bill, if mountain climbing up one side of Portugal : BENFICA
5-down – Not about to stitch the king up from this direction : NORWEST
6-down – One’s objective to be the real winner : ACTUALIST
7-down – On the contrary, the Red Queen miscalculated : ERRED
8-down – Parting shot? Och, ours didnae fash! : DEOCHANDORUIS
9-down – New Yorker’s glory in Sunday spiel : KNICKERBOCKER
15-down – Here flourished hogweeds, right? : HEDGEROWS
17-down – So it follows the whistle-blower, or ‘e follows : THEREFORE
19-down – Crompton’s making out the bill that’s unsettled : MUTABLE
20-down – Fastens the blame over a radical type : PARSNIP
22-down – Leaders of Yanks always left their allies conferring here : YALTA
23-down – Alexander the Great has it off with her! : THAIS

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22472 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22472 clues and answers were published on Wed 20 Mar 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22472 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Tedious rites recollected at home, not hospital : TIRESOME
5-across – Take weapons and notice a naval force : ARMADA
9-across – Stop that is in the slips, for example : LINGERIE
10-across – Church is at the heart of manuscript backing a split : SCHISM
12-across – Sportier pro playing for the landlords : PROPRIETORS
15-across – The each way principle? : TENET
17-across – Lose power and cease showing any interest : SWITCHOFF
18-across – Possibly nicer in South-East? That’s phoney : INSINCERE
19-across – Fight in a Somerset town : SETTO
20-across – It’s lent by distance to the poet : ENCHANTMENT
24-across – A first-class drinking spot recalled in Asia : ARABIA
25-across – Say in fewer words that the prisoner’s very stupid : CONDENSE
26-across – Crossword compiler’s pet : SETTER
27-across – Ends the innings and makes announcement : DECLARES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Relating to a meeting of minds? : TELEPATHIC
2-down – Roman sends out what’s exemplified by Ernie : RANDOMNESS
3-down – Steep swerve : SHEER
4-down – Delivery without a run? : MAIDENSPEECH
6-down – Wrinkle on fires for camping types : RUCKSACKS
7-down – Part of Bavarian song : ARIA
8-down – Graduate turns up with doctor to get points for argument : AMMO
11-down – Faxed bod in Old English, perhaps, without an address : NOFIXEDABODE
13-down – I live well down in the country : SOUTHERNER
14-down – Easy ¿ no force required : EFFORTLESS
16-down – A green tin? No, different colour : TANGERINE
21-down – Ebbing and flowing? It”s time the girl left : TIDAL
22-down – Flower cut in place for the Speaker : DAIS
23-down – Pitch for the players : CAST

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

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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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