Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22405 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22405 clues and answers were published on Tue 01 Jan 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22405 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Second best hoot : SCREAM
5-across – Rover, in search of pleasure, takes false silver back and forth : GADABOUT
9-across – There’s not an island left that’s not based on fact : NOTIONAL
10-across – Frank guide : DIRECT
11-across – Chummy’s apt to be tight : CLOSEFITTING
13-across – Try to get information from shoe : PUMP
14-across – Pitiful epic that failed : PATHETIC
17-across – Disciple with heart of gold in bloom : FOLLOWER
18-across – Party clobber : BASH
20-across – Hobbies to interest these hobbyists? : BIRDWATCHERS
23-across – Expression of grief about note on sausage : SALAMI
24-across – University given tribute for being elevated : UPRAISED
25-across – Suppress onset of laughter in unfamiliar setting : STRANGLE
26-across – Country infiltrated by skinhead’s obsequious subordinates : YESMEN

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Commander has to approve captain : COOK
3-down – Pepsi Cola, refreshment of bishops : EPISCOPAL
4-down – Skirt worn by favourite : MINION
5-down – Get huge pot and clear out with financial compensation : GOLDENPARACHUTE
6-down – Duchamp’s first on a platform, initially talking shop with Hans Arp, Man Ray et al. : DADAISTS
7-down – Central heating on stream as a kind of offering? : BURNT
8-down – Nice suntan all over? Most weird! : UNCANNIEST
12-down – Car was effective for one not needing instructor : AUTODIDACT
15-down – I seem prepared to hold singer responsible for missions : EMBASSIES
16-down – In a stew, in a stew, in a stew? Good! : SWEATING
19-down – Risk associated with fish shop : BETRAY
21-down – Princess in Edwardian attire : DIANA
22-down – Wilder make-up unit? : GENE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22404 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22404 clues and answers were published on Mon 31 Dec 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22404 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Circled the earth, say : WHIRLED
5-across – Well up in colour : SUFFUSE
10-across – US polar explorer – and aviator, by the way : BYRD
11-across – Devilish control? : POSSESSION
12-across – Crown jewels : TIARAS
13-across – Love of the past : OLDFLAME
14-across – Late payment? : DEATHDUTY
16-across – Female cotton spinner : JENNY
17-across – Silver down, but looks healthy : AGLOW
19-across – A cleaner at The Rover’s Return? : BAROFSOAP
23-across – It’s unusual to hear in broadcasting : ONTHEAIR
24-across – In school, put us at the end of the line : EUSTON
26-across – Misguided love is pity, really : POSITIVELY
27-across – Mount hotly tipped to run : ETNA
28-across – Hazel’s hangers-on : CATKINS
29-across – Unusual angle for a crank : ODDFISH

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Disorganised rustic binder : HAYWIRE
3-down – Condition under which a horse races : RIDER
4-down – Shown to be vulnerable : EXPOSED
6-down – Tips university to spend freely : UPENDS
7-down – US rifle is adapted for infantrymen : FUSILIERS
8-down – They will run away when things warm up : SNOWMEN
9-down – Guard put on health risk in naval vessel : ESCORTCARRIER
15-down – A cleaner at work among the chatterers : TOOTHPICK
18-down – Canal boat : GONDOLA
20-down – Individual observed description of Polyphemus : ONEEYED
21-down – Not a sum that’s incorrect – sums : AMOUNTS
22-down – Defame a large number and get into a row : MALIGN
25-down – It’s bound to be a bit of a shock : SHEAF

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22402 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22402 clues and answers were published on Fri 28 Dec 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22402 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Where prices fall, endless obligation on unhesitating poet is not ordered : DUTCHAUCTIONS
10-across – Unnecessary verbiage for weightless bear : PADDING
11-across – Pass – turn over a couple of pages first : APPROVE
12-across – Cast heard to be suffering : THROE
13-across – Cutting mat with scissors – all but the ends, strangely : OSTRACISM
14-across – Return to the point before long – it may be catching : NOOSE
16-across – Our ends may be : ROUGHHEWN
18-across – The regular custom of sponsorship? : PATRONAGE
19-across – A romp through Berlin? : SPREE
20-across – Theatrical musician and literary baron allowed back in : LYTTELTON
23-across – Student well informed on American disease : LUPUS
24-across – Genuine error by Wax? : SINCERE
25-across – Lower with awful dread, for example : DEGRADE
26-across – Sh! Tebbit is for reform? You’ll be lucky! : BESTOFBRITISH

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Downtrodden like Old Labour? : UNDERFOOT
3-down – Wrong number for Frost? : CRIME
4-down – Silver starting to develop problems : AGGRO
5-down – Singer can use the letters : CHANTEUSE
6-down – Charges for a large quantity of fruit : IMPEACHES
7-down – One complaint raised by Old Testament character : NAOMI
8-down – Getting things just so, like Chopin after his love embraced mine : SPITANDPOLISH
9-down – Disease and its cause, an ego like the French : GERMANMEASLES
15-down – Running away with strange men to Peel : ELOPEMENT
16-down – Oven to be held by judge: that’s where it’s done : ROASTBEEF
17-down – Master Blair’s retained hanging for those in 1, 8, 9 and 26 : EUROPEANS
21-down – Present, maybe, making one uptight : TENSE
22-down – The lowest point in deception, a dirty business : NADIR
23-down – Not a load-bearing beam : LIGHT

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22401 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22401 clues and answers were published on Thu 27 Dec 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22401 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Slips below the surface of the river : UNDERWEAR
10-across – The first prison to strike : AMAZE
11-across – Not the first two ancillary cooks to be enthusiastic : LYRICAL
12-across – Show Felix embracing nude : CABARET
13-across – Some may write off Ibsen plays as romances : FIBS
14-across – One-time chancellor delivered drink to songwriter : COLEPORTER
16-across – Student in university, one in Staffordshire, has an instrument : UKELELE
17-across – Music at state ball to welcome back one who came in from the cold : CALYPSO
19-across – For which one might sit still? : PHOTOGRAPH
22-across – Find him in the centre of… of the US : ERIC
24-across – Contracted hotel to take over part of hospital : INDRAWN
25-across – Forbid the girl’s audition and she’ll scream until we go : BANSHEE
26-across – Dodge, these days, is captivated by the First Lady : EVADE
27-across – Italian with 1,000 volunteers took the biscuit : GARIBALDI

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Offers surplus one pound to be doled out – amazing! : FULLOFSURPRISES
2-down – Having the strength to admit Miss Carrington is winning : ADORABLE
3-down – Wagon traffic : TRUCK
4-down – Spooner’s allowed bird to escape : GETLOOSE
5-down – Councillor chap touring the city nursery : CRECHE
6-down – Bluff queen sent back liquor – about a litre : BAMBOOZLE
7-down – 200 mg, say, of vegetable : CARROT
8-down – Written references? : LETTERSOFCREDIT
15-down – Set off from school in old hat : DETONATED
17-down – Animal – horse – rears when accountant Gerbeau is up : CAPYBARA
18-down – This provides the main prospect : PORTHOLE
20-down – Half made to butt into examination test : ORDEAL
21-down – Welsh version of Greene novel : RENEGE
23-down – Bosses are posh folk, they say : KNOBS

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22400 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22400 clues and answers were published on Mon 24 Dec 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22400 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Shellfish extract : WINKLE
4-across – Publican with no end of trade : BARTER
9-across – Late, but if on time, not late : DEAD
10-across – Pacific islanders cash crop? : BREADFRUIT
11-across – Sound sort of artist : STRAIT
12-across – Woman’s habit is to delay; that is the end of it : LINGERIE
13-across – What makes drips feel so pleased with their achievements? : SELFPRIDE
15-across – Expresses disapproval of alcohol, say : BOOS
16-across – Impudent type : BOLD
17-across – Cuts off credit to Chinese food raiser : CHOPSTICK
21-across – Sleeping partner maybe has scope to finish on board : ROOMMATE
22-across – Believe one wouldn’t say no to this : ACCEPT
24-across – Gets agreed damages set aside : SEGREGATED
25-across – Side winds? : AIRS
26-across – Badly rusted piece of cleaning equipment : DUSTER
27-across – Put on weight and looked older : STAGED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Wind resulting from unsettled weather : WREATHE
2-down – Help an upstanding girl : NADIA
3-down – It may be caught and cooked in a pot : LOBSTER
5-down – Summing up a cleric in middle age : ADDING
6-down – Dismissed from the Jockey Club? : TURFEDOUT
7-down – Fruit is when rain’s about : RAISINS
8-down – One is not openly menaced by them : VEILEDTHREATS
14-down – Well-rounded notes in an unbeatable score : FULLMARKS
16-down – One-sided support for literature : BOOKEND
18-down – Applause is praise in the orchestra section : PLAUDIT
19-down – Frolicked about, showing scarlet undergarment : CAPERED
20-down – Collide with end of bridge? A bad one might : BARGEE
23-down – Sound as a bell : CLANG

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

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