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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22453 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22453 clues and answers were published on Tue 26 Feb 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22453 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Spin-off from alternative air determines life’s ups and downs : WHEELOFFORTUNE
9-across – Shun Blair as just a cosmetic aide : NAILBRUSH
10-across – Opposite of a swindle in Yorkshire? : RIPON
11-across – Penetrate log : ENTER
12-across – Small remnant of superior oil processed for perfume : PATCHOULI
13-across – Least yielding creator of 27’s model : STERNEST
14-across – Record holder overturned fish’s victory : SLEEVE
17-across – The French hold a cry of pain to be disreputable : LOUCHE
19-across – Arab leader receiving note on Zambia’s illicit writing : SAMIZDAT
22-across – Trounced at cards, being incapable of cheating? : TRICKLESS
24-across – Country’s removed from Copernicus’ mathematical section : CONIC
25-across – Wept for one held in popular respect : CRIED
26-across – Substantial hole in reef’s material : CORPOREAL
27-across – Stir, getting excited: public transport’s convenient and novel : TRISTRAMSHANDY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The beginning of wisdom: Solomon briefly fills gap on shortest day : WINTERSOLSTICE
2-down – Message to beginner penetrating eastern slope : EPISTLE
3-down – Building material containing briny solution for complex construction : LABYRINTH
4-down – Dowdy boozer swallowed back end : FRUMPISH
5-down – Work to strike energy from rock : OPHITE
6-down – Raised headgear with inlaid gold in Scripture : TORAH
7-down – God’s uplifting swan song? : NEPTUNE
8-down – Source of Pernod keeping source of tequila friendly, suppressing twitch cleanly : ANTISEPTICALLY
15-down – Unwilling to admit Colin, drunk and with skimpy clothing : LOINCLOTH
16-down – Tramp keeping animal doctor from pounder of beat : BASSDRUM
18-down – Common cause of urine, if abused : UNIFIER
20-down – Dull news, including nothing on Alcatraz, say : DUNGEON
21-down – Textile dealer getting no more than 100 in rands : MERCER
23-down – Prestige over turf kingdom : KUDOS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22450 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22450 clues and answers were published on Fri 22 Feb 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22450 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Rupert seen to be holding the castle : BROOKE
4-across – Star turn embarrassed at taking a part, say : SUNDER
9-across – Get nothing till a change takes place in London : NOTTINGHILLGATE
10-across – Model finds artist in need of a drink : THIRST
11-across – Correction to original volume turns out louder : REVISION
12-across – Lack of hair oil supplier, inter alia : ALOPECIA
14-across – Stride out with the strongest 10 : DRIEST
15-across – Fashionable way to make encroachment : INROAD
18-across – Dicky bathes in alcohol : ABSINTHE
21-across – Cast an eye over neckwear and smalls : SCANTIES
22-across – What was famously bust in Miss West and Mrs French? : MADAME
24-across – One’s gran at a porn show could be unwelcome : PERSONANONGRATA
25-across – Perverted desire to live … : RESIDE
26-across – … dealer said to be more perverted : GROCER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Friar finally changes sides and turns into a low dive : BROTHEL
2-down – Animal the queen’s extravagant over : OTTER
3-down – Producing movement of an involuntary kind by cattle : KINETIC
5-down – Nude design for cover of book rejected as out of favour : UNLOVED
6-down – This may be out of order, so dieting is required : DIGESTION
7-down – Their contamination is no unusual consequence of a pest : RATIONS
8-down – The lady meets rising atmosphere of religious law : SHERIA
13-down – Forecast gives poor signs of development : PROGNOSIS
16-down – Dotty uncle has a right to some kind of family : NUCLEAR
17-down – Stooped to get firing system in action : DEIGNED
18-down – Agree on condition of goods to be received : ASSENT
19-down – Hurried up to The House for a tutorial : SEMINAR
20-down – Pet can be taken in the arms : HAMSTER
23-down – Ancient architectural style, or one in current use : DORIC

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22449 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22449 clues and answers were published on Thu 21 Feb 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22449 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Bartender needing a wad chopped up for the plainest food : BREADANDWATER
10-across – Case of the former Liberal : EXAMPLE
11-across – Cookery writer knocks back gin with jazz singer : NIGELLA
12-across – American berry grower’s moving along : LOGAN
13-across – This female warrior’s bust ain’t in bra : BRITANNIA
14-across – Midshipman called about the crash : PRANG
16-across – Encouraged to embrace a bishop when heckled : BARRACKED
18-across – Not even a soldier on strike could be called a misfit : ODDMANOUT
19-across – The best of the Carmelites : ELITE
20-across – Good-looking lad with scar and sinus damaged : NARCISSUS
23-across – Praise for Elizabeth when going round the lake : BLESS
24-across – Final stage when death reaches wild animals for sport : ENDGAME
25-across – Nearly suffering as a substitute : STANDIN
26-across – Envious, getting identified as Charlie Dimmock : GREENFINGERED

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Protective train buffer? : REARGUARD
3-down – Anglo-Saxon writer trembles in the wind : ASPEN
4-down – Brother got up after getting best bitter : ACERB
5-down – Insignificant fellow spattered panda with dirt : DANDIPRAT
6-down – Incense in silver tomb, about a ton : AGGRAVATE
7-down – Actress Terry is well endowed, but not completely : ELLEN
8-down – Source named with all the necessary equipment : WELLAPPOINTED
9-down – Sarah concentrating on sauce : SALADDRESSING
15-down – Life in the fireplace and sink : GRAVITATE
16-down – Standing place for objects with hard back and strange flesh : BOOKSHELF
17-down – What the chef uses in a tense situation? : KNIFEEDGE
21-down – Cyclist’s qualification : RIDER
22-down – She keeps us in the sanatorium : SUSAN
23-down – English poet and artist born over the water : BLAKE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22448 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22448 clues and answers were published on Wed 20 Feb 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22448 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Angry about a famous huntsman mostly requiring one to give way : MAJORROAD
6-across – Little fool on the plus side? : ASSET
9-across – Businessman takes stewed fruit right round an American walkway : COMPANYPROMOTER
10-across – Drag the swag : HAUL
11-across – Silver for a boy, endless fount of inspiration : AGANIPPE
14-across – Ransack barrel to find a piece of weaponry : RIFLEBUTT
15-across – Sunburn dispenser? It takes 2 : TANGO
16-across – Little boy with a metre-wide hole : CHASM
18-across – Organ playing during journey out of Mexico : RIOGRANDE
20-across – Hanger-on at location of Red Devils? : PARASITE
21-across – Lubber employed at the theatre : SWAB
25-across – With student and petty officer separated in prison, I can do anything : PLENIPOTENTIARY
26-across – Smack in the snoot, as technically it is known : TASTE
27-across – Note: see about part of speech I’m withdrawing : SEMIBREVE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – With see-through material, it’s hard to be a prophet : MICAH
2-down – Traffic not moving? Let off steam and it’s a piece of cake : JAMPUFF
3-down – Travel to capital, say : ROAM
4-down – Alternative unknowns: this is an antelope : ORYX
5-down – Belittling of a good interchange : DEROGATION
6-down – Trouble on-line about doctor, a fool, giving instructions : ADMONITORY
7-down – Attack the arrangement continuously : SETUPON
8-down – Triumvirate you need time to look up in a book : THREESOME
12-down – Liberal by letter? : PERMISSIVE
13-down – Suitor with unit adapted to be good for him : NUTRITIOUS
14-down – Bird giving offence during firework noise : ROCKPIPIT
17-down – Stuffy and far from ‘irsute : AIRLESS
19-down – Modern way to get into prison : NEWGATE
22-down – Man of law, not yet man to the French : BOYLE
23-down – Light wood? : BEAM
24-down – Attempt crazy rising : STAB

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22447 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22447 clues and answers were published on Tue 19 Feb 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22447 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Is it used to pick out junk in the dark? : CHINESELANTERN
8-across – Perhaps Clio’s daughter thought so : MUSED
9-across – Factors involved in confiscation : BAILIFFS
11-across – It is raised at the start : EYEBROW
12-across – An Indian reservation? : INKWELL
13-across – Exercise in Art Nouveau : TRAIN
15-across – Its beams are important, however : LIGHTSHIP
17-across – Show note here : REPRESENT
20-across – Car with old sound : AUDIO
21-across – Beheaded king, enough of a precedent : EXAMPLE
23-across – Fault is mended in narrow pipe : FISTULA
25-across – Radioactive element at Etna is volatile : ASTATINE
26-across – Animal took a piece of food inside : OKAPI
27-across – Orpheus’s repertoire? : CLASSICALMUSIC

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Those running on air seem romantic fantasy : COMMENTARIES
2-down – The trouble with Susie? : ISSUE
3-down – Shown by Shackleton, but not his ship? : ENDURANCE
4-down – Bury me below, perhaps : EMBOWEL
5-down – Constant bearing : ABIDING
6-down – The art of the con man : TRICK
7-down – Herds free to roam can be renewed : REFRESHED
10-down – Magpie trained to peck animal : KLEPTOMANIAC
14-down – It can give the staff a rating : APPRAISAL
16-down – A rating for the crew : TRANSFORM
18-down – Professors once deserve to be put inside : EMERITI
19-down – Stuff made from fat cheese : TAFFETA
22-down – Spare fresh fruit : PEARS
24-down – The range of half your vocals : URALS

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

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