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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22429 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22429 clues and answers were published on Tue 29 Jan 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22429 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Kind of clip for canine pet : BULLDOG
5-across – Badly treated and is unserviceable in the sea : MISUSED
9-across – Column almost collapsing? I’ll fill the gap : LOCUM
10-across – Dancing party sure to be involved in speech : DISCOURSE
11-across – This is not only applicable to Latin teachers! : INLOCOPARENTIS
13-across – Kiln used by official art school teachers, originally : OAST
14-across – Large beast with two insects around his head : BEHEMOTH
17-across – Caring attitude with tea? : SYMPATHY
18-across – Animal’s whiskers cut short : BEAR
21-across – Shown by one going round the houses : LONGWINDEDNESS
23-across – Lawyers need years, not short time, to be trained : ATTORNEYS
24-across – English duet arranged as a solo composition : ETUDE
25-across – Hopes to include hard drives : THRUSTS
26-across – Gloomy, although with plenty of benefits? : DOLEFUL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Dash for the bar : BOLT
2-down – Scottish water feature? : LOCHNESSMONSTER
3-down – Spanish gentleman holding a manuscript could be in a jam : DAMSON
4-down – Medal cut includes award, a sponsored one : GODSON
5-down – Half-minute steak done? Wrong! : MISTAKEN
6-down – Be in debt within a small amount? It’s fallen briefly : SHOWERED
7-down – Shows great confidence with props and one’s material : STRUTSONESSTUFF
8-down – Formally worn at the front : DRESSSHIRT
12-down – Specialist to study ruler : CONSULTANT
15-down – Provider of fuel, as idle talk goes : GASWORKS
16-down – Church cleans refurbished altar areas : CHANCELS
19-down – Proficient, yet first two went off backwards : VERSED
20-down – Strengthen female voice 50% : ANNEAL
22-down – Healthy spring : WELL

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22428 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22428 clues and answers were published on Mon 28 Jan 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22428 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Spit in the sea : SANDBAR
5-across – Veto for proposal : FORBID
9-across – Party policy won’t be one’s main interest : SIDELINE
10-across – In the end I make a topping ornament : FINIAL
12-across – Colourful digits useful in the nursery : GREENFINGERS
15-across – Medical service for which the pay’s too uncertain : OSTEOPATHY
17-across – A man around here may be taken for a girl : RIO
19-across – Go out after a rise : EBB
20-across – Defamatory? Ronald sues anyway : SLANDEROUS
22-across – A subject for deep study : OCEANOGRAPHY
26-across – Habit of a socially inept person : ANORAK
27-across – Relaxed, with lowered pulse : DOWNBEAT
28-across – Method of betting trying to avoid betting slips? : SYSTEM
29-across – Beastly mix of cocoa in the Royal Navy : RACCOON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – It’s worn to order, perhaps : SASH
2-down – Having nothing on a dark horse, raised stake finally : NUDE
3-down – Where everybody goes in to sweep around the floor : BALLROOM
4-down – Used for firing the stove : RANGE
6-down – Vegetables that need to be set in soon : ONIONS
7-down – He has reached match point : BRIDEGROOM
8-down – Ibsen’s model accommodation : DOLLSHOUSE
11-down – A sort of dog blanket : AFGHAN
13-down – Happen to reach successful exam standard? : COMETOPASS
14-down – Steady lads! Hold your horses! : STABLEBOYS
16-down – Maintain there’s some body in the beer : ALLEGE
18-down – Garage worker tuned machine to go over a hundred : MECHANIC
21-down – Packed against the unexpected? : INCASE
23-down – Mother is upset over our love affair : AMOUR
24-down – He goes down or rises in play : HERO
25-down – School where one changes form about the beginning of term : ETON

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22426 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22426 clues and answers were published on Fri 25 Jan 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22426 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Food for politicians? : COMMONS
5-across – The study of unknown symbols? : ALGEBRA
9-across – Lift up half a bottle in the laboratory : WINCH
10-across – One could bring hope to a suffering saint, internally : OSTEOPATH
11-across – Once the Queen’s favourite sheep : LEICESTER
12-across – Fully revealed by Monty? : NAKED
13-across – Type of attention found in Public Library : PEARL
15-across – They stay away from beast seen running : ABSENTEES
18-across – Positions taken by attorney with conflicting duties : ATTITUDES
19-across – Drunk in snug : TIGHT
21-across – Fantastic route. . . : OUTRE
23-across – . . .if she fled away here : SHEFFIELD
25-across – Firmly set on heading for cover : HIDEBOUND
26-across – 3:2 could be one in Horatio’s calculation : RATIO
27-across – The German reversed round broken axle and let go : RELAXED
28-across – A substitute book : RESERVE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Wild flower found in Jersey landslide : COWSLIP
2-down – What the useless cobbler said before becoming a beggar : MENDICANT
3-down – Jock’s sorry about colour : OCHRE
4-down – Is less than 4 inches a fast record? : SHORTHAND
5-down – Change the hymn-book by omitting postscript : ALTER
6-down – Stop fool from flying in monkey food : GROUNDNUT
7-down – Vacancy left in reserve : BLANK
8-down – Pests concealed among primates : APHIDES
14-down – Spooner wanted improved security for this door feature : LETTERBOX
16-down – This hold up could bring up redness : SUSPENDER
17-down – It can whisk into the sky : EGGBEATER
18-down – The Nora Batty is someone else! : ANOTHER
20-down – A little European water creature : TADPOLE
22-down – In the ballad it runs westward, ebbing and flowing : TIDAL
23-down – Noise heard by the Seine? : SOUND
24-down – Passengers are safer when marshalled : FARES

This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22425 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22425 clues and answers were published on Thu 24 Jan 2002 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22425 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

5-across – Fruit painter is at home : RAISIN
6-across – Marine mammal moved soil on string : DUGONG
9-across – What’s responsible for images of 20 1? : AGEISM
10-across – Moral tale has the bloody lot on ecstasy : ALLEGORY
11-across – See 18 : HOME
12-across – 18 : RETIREMENT
13-across – 10’s upset about time at the pictures for 11 dealer : ESTATEAGENT
18-across – : OLDPEOPLES
21-across – : WAIT
22-across – 18 : EVENTIDE
23-across – Writer returned to cut relation : NEPHEW
24-across – 18 : SUNSET
25-across – See 21 : FORGOD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – See 20 : CITIZENS
2-down – Room for Germans in 1811? : ZIMMER
3-down – Shot on target and the Frenchman will croak : BULLFROG
4-down – Act dumb initially with stone hitting bumper : DODGEM
5-down – Area of flower country given a lift without oxygen : REGION
7-down – Hunting, shooting, or fishing, say, in larger understanding : GERUND
8-down – Second Labour premier absorbing fluid with alien armada : BATTLEFLEET
14-down – A cat is presented to the Queen to make little drops : ATOMISER
15-down – Modern culture retaining spelling in principal part of paper : NEWSPAGE
16-down – Frank’s garments, half of the sixes : CLOVIS
17-down – Famous death in the engine? : BIGEND
19-down – Old stick of a lawyer by whom Margaret’s granny’s embraced : PENANG
20-down – : SENIOR

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

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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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