Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22380 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22380 clues and answers were published on Fri 30 Nov 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22380 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Boil for two months : DECOCT
4-across – Got a huge C for Clumsy : GAUCHE
9-across – See 25 : ISLE
10-across – Kept up, so it’s claimed : MAINTAINED
11-across – Shakespearean court with detectives about : BARDIC
12-across – Six points ahead, Herb – fancy! : ENVISAGE
13-across – Obnoxious creatures primed with lubricant turning bright scarlet : VERMILION
15-across – Heard to deserve the bird : ERNE
16-across – Hint to learner: get in prompt : CLUE
17-across – Big toe cracked turning hot tap! Get the bone doctor : OSTEOPATH
21-across – A vessel in choice metal : PLATINUM
22-across – Unfixed one part of the street parade : AFLOAT
24-across – Occasion on which a student is working : FUNCTIONAL
25-across – Man to man in Cumbria : CARL
26-across – Bring about the demise, say, of Santa Claus : SLEIGH
27-across – Filthy place to keep fish cold : STEELY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Peculiar seaside complaint : DISEASE
2-down – The Amerindian God is to be believed : CREED
3-down – Joker gets most of the drink; that’s funny : COMICAL
5-down – Stirring kind of voice : ACTIVE
6-down – Part of helmet found by child in street and even put back : CHINSTRAP
7-down – Centrepiece Peregrine ordered, but not the right one : EPERGNE
8-down – Eating hours starting to be considered uneconomic : TIMECONSUMING
14-down – Imperative to include ring, a revolutionary facial adornment : MOUSTACHE
16-down – Flag of a military man we lay claim to : COLOURS
18-down – Man in kind of shirt turned up with old shoulder badge : EPAULET
19-down – A treaty distributed by carrier : TEATRAY
20-down – Not quite over being wound up : ENDING
23-down – Hercules? He’s off to raise the dough : LUCRE

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22379 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22379 clues and answers were published on Thu 29 Nov 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22379 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Get both sides all out, producing a no-win situation? : CATCHTWENTYTWO
8-across – The shape of decay : MOULD
9-across – Pause for popular pest cut short : INTERMIT
11-across – Away support in the wilds : OUTBACK
12-across – Forgive poet admitting backward look to verse : ABSOLVE
13-across – Giant periodical covering game : MAGOG
15-across – Small plant may look lively : EYEBRIGHT
17-across – It’s unique, on average, in man : NONPAREIL
20-across – Take the fizz out of the painter : DEGAS
21-across – Identify one god and goddess : ISOLATE
23-across – Drink returned amid expression of contempt for perk : FREEBIE
25-across – Mean to crack the number of the games console : NINTENDO
26-across – Some of its sculptors obviously can’t do heads : TORSO
27-across – Tetchy allusion common in academic writing : CROSSREFERENCE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Covering people with dung is reasonable : COMPOSMENTIS
2-down – Financial arrangement reportedly held in bond : TRUST
3-down – Bloom’s monster swallowing rage, almost : HYDRANGEA
4-down – Ruse for getting the last bit of vinegar into the seafood : WRINKLE
5-down – Two sorts of vermin gaining energy from fertiliser : NITRATE
6-down – Tales of heartless sunbeam in the ascendant : YARNS
7-down – One girl crashed into former Liberal at the roundabout : WHIRLIGIG
10-down – Examiner, one holding up drunk male driver : TESTOSTERONE
14-down – Old region revisited by boatman : GONDOLIER
16-down – Dog inducing shepherd’s delight? : REDSETTER
18-down – Spain’s slender golden girl : ELEANOR
19-down – Free ride cancelled at outset of long journey : LIFTOFF
22-down – Singers bound head to foot : ALTOS
24-down – Unproductive-sounding title : BARON

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22378 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22378 clues and answers were published on Wed 28 Nov 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22378 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Promising bishop true following : BRIGHT
5-across – Pest is lurking in shade : NUISANCE
9-across – Remitted about 10 cents as deposit : SEDIMENT
10-across – Mineral aggregate almost worked out in this state : OREGON
11-across – Dogfighting that does not hurt people : SHADOWBOXING
13-across – Cathedral priest does not begin promptly : ANON
14-across – Chafing when an undergarment is back to front, being worn : ABRASION
17-across – Service may be suspended for its passengers : MONORAIL
18-across – Wear ring discarded by old film star : GARB
20-across – Giving one a great shock is its most extravagant claim : HAIRRESTORER
23-across – Legs in movement make one run : SINGLE
24-across – The Mount – suitable address for a cardinal : EMINENCE
25-across – Governed by air, its function is to give resilience under foot : UNDERLAY
26-across – Send up, say, topless waiters for a change : SATIRE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Animal on its back in tall grass : REED
3-down – Sad, losing out in this sliding scale : GLISSANDO
4-down – One in ancient city at that time endlessly subject to censorship : THEBAN
5-down – Condition of total non-reality found in people who are successful in it? : NATIONALLOTTERY
6-down – Unyielding cough? Get eucalyptus : IRONBARK
7-down – One leaves valedictions meant for two : ADEUX
8-down – Head bar people up here? : CROWNCOURT
12-down – Modernisation of pub welcome : INNOVATION
15-down – But don’t expect it to have a cube root! : SUGARBEET
16-down – Food fit for so long : FAREWELL
19-down – Mannerisms of eccentric artist : TRAITS
21-down – Travel northwards in Paris street and cheat : ROGUE
22-down – Fellow leaves muffler wound : SCAR

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22377 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22377 clues and answers were published on Tue 27 Nov 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22377 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Pinpoint documents with digital processor? : NAILFILE
9-across – Atrocity leading to a war scene : CRIMEA
10-across – Bite insect back : TANG
11-across – Right-wing Italian queen eaten by wild lion cubs : BERLUSCONI
12-across – Pre-pouch protector for marsupial : WOMBAT
14-across – Serial killers found on 13, reportedly? : BURKEAND
15-across – Loud jazz music backed by his improvisation : GARISH
17-across – With English papers about to right, it’s my job to do it! : EDITOR
20-across – Beef and potatoes in a stew : FRIESIAN
22-across – Strain puddings, but no starters, backwards : STRESS
23-across – Drunk given to being overbearing : HIGHHANDED
24-across – See 14 : HARE
25-across – Assume control of greeting card : HIJACK
26-across – Eternal king of rock and roll? : SISYPHUS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Escort Filipino round the North : TAGALONG
2-down – Colours fade : FLAG
3-down – Bird closed beak on morsel : TITBIT
4-down – Happened to hear of an Asian nomad : OCCURRED
5-down – Arm crank with alcoholic substance : WINCHESTER
6-down – Before Jospin’s refusal, fold the 2 : PENNON
8-down – Dress from Spain carried upwards : ENROBE
13-down – Port is behind rake’s perversion : BIRKENHEAD
16-down – Country long in pretension’s uprising : SRILANKA
18-down – Fragrant bed where king with amour is romping? : ROSARIUM
19-down – They’re positively charged to achieve top mark, with knobs on! : ANODES
21-down – Dried fruit is placed in water : RAISIN
22-down – Tormentor, a devil ensnared by his foe? : SADIST
24-down – Some worthy people to get promotion : HYPE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22376 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22376 clues and answers were published on Mon 26 Nov 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22376 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Strip joints? You need the West End : DIVEST
4-across – Jumble found in a cheap paper carrier : RAGBAG
9-across – A vote in favour for those in favour : AYES
10-across – He wants a successful strike : PROSPECTOR
11-across – Intense fire damaged church : FIERCE
12-across – Leaves the land without George for foreign fields : EMIRATES
13-across – Low spirits of a number getting dismissal : DEJECTION
15-across – Tax it out of frivolity : LEVY
16-across – One of the first people named in Somerset House : SETH
17-across – Ex-prime minister happy to put on weight : GLADSTONE
21-across – Obtained support, having used threats : LEANEDON
22-across – Boasts about handmade footwear : SABOTS
24-across – Singular feat by a driver : AHOLEINONE
25-across – Band makes her dance : SARA
26-across – Better method of making money : SYSTEM
27-across – Journey without purpose : STROLL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Tide may change between sunrise and sunset : DAYTIME
2-down – Medieval way of saving face : VISOR
3-down – The foolish snipe at the wise : SAPIENT
5-down – Gold goes to couple working and learning abroad : AUPAIR
6-down – A Schubert composition? Capital! : BUCHAREST
7-down – Where to get tea – with or without milk and sugar : GROCERY
8-down – One old fort now converted into a tourist attraction : TOWEROFLONDON
14-down – Snares fish in spread nets : ENTANGLES
16-down – Observes the intrusion and is furious : SEETHES
18-down – Course set south in barren terrain : DESSERT
19-down – Old city in part of South Africa is unaffected : NATURAL
20-down – Publicity in place of helpful suggestions : ADVICE
23-down – Graduates thus as a singer : BASSO

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

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