Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22356 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22356 clues and answers were published on Fri 02 Nov 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22356 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Where academics relax with copy of The Predicament : SCRAPE
4-across – Strategy requiring force field : GAMBIT
9-across – Workers’ assembly’s turned tail : SCUT
10-across – Ministers’ unlucky choice? : SHORTSTRAW
11-across – Quarter turn in the river : FOURTH
12-across – Mnemonist recalls legendary footballer and hard worker : ELEPHANT
13-across – Get a grip, seizing backside and doubling up : CRUMPLING
15-across – Largely unrefined filth : CRUD
16-across – Censors wisecracks : GAGS
17-across – A second volume about Stewart’s sporting venue : ASTRODOME
21-across – Unremitting claptrap on the way in : CONSTANT
22-across – Take time to feel at home : BELONG
24-across – Minute investigator of comic prose : MICROSCOPE
25-across – Cold, cold belly : CRAW
26-across – Afterthought about material medical support : SPLINT
27-across – Twirl ponytail in the fireplace : GYRATE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Support that’s thoroughly clean holding copper up : SUCCOUR
2-down – Turner’s alternative to compost : ROTOR
3-down – Mathematician drinking hogshead during Passover : PASCHAL
5-down – Learnt about capital growth : ANTLER
6-down – Save revolutionary socialist from being massacred : BUTCHERED
7-down – Rock ‘n’ roller to fall in, getting drilled : TRAINED
8-down – Updating original sin in reasonable quantities : MODERNISATION
14-down – Expert on wind securing silver : MAGISTRAL
16-down – Architect King George I kept in work : GROPIUS
18-down – Gemstone with 60% beryl content is pretty tough : RUBBERY
19-down – Also covered by partner’s authorisation : MANDATE
20-down – Quietly firing the incumbent : PARSON
23-down – Fabric that’s fairly crass, but not entirely : LYCRA

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22355 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22355 clues and answers were published on Thu 01 Nov 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22355 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – May be playing what instrument? : HAWTHORN
5-across – Sweet to charge around loudly : TOFFEE
9-across – Island psychiatrist gets student in shape for urban nightmare : CONCRETE
10-across – See 9 : JUNGLE
11-across – Approval to hesitate when idiot is bearing witness : LOOKERON
12-across – Miss the mark in swinging clubs, if holding iron : FERRIC
14-across – Extensive substitution of scripture for article becomes fickle : CAPRICIOUS
18-across – Disputed frontier : BORDERLINE
22-across – Haunt of working bosses : OBSESS
23-across – Undeniable rule of good person among poor people : ESTOPPEL
24-across – Never taken hold of lass because of hair : MAIDEN
25-across – See 24 : FORTRESS
26-across – Bit of lip from crawler about to desert mad emperor : LIGULA
27-across – Deaths do result from him? : DEADSHOT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Feather on cock’s comb : HACKLE
2-down – Presentation of name in black, traditionally? : WINDOW
3-down – One of the other messengers? : HERMES
4-down – Inform about one accomplice with good reason : RATIONALLY
6-down – Whine to be surrounded by former luxury : OPULENCE
7-down – Square? : FIGUREOF
8-down – Queen’s cut off without practice : EXERCISE
13-down – Don’t resign stupidly, as this will give you an edge : GRINDSTONE
15-down – Odd for an average rating? : ABNORMAL
16-down – See 2 : DRESSING
17-down – Remark by unhappy sailor washed up on the shore? : SEASHELL
19-down – Secured for take off in the past : BOLTED
20-down – See 7 : SPEECH
21-down – Get nowhere in court after Waterloo? : CLOSET

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22354 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22354 clues and answers were published on Wed 31 Oct 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22354 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Scots have mother cat with a bruise : HAEMATOMA
10-across – Seek a 13: something wrong? : HITCH
11-across – Jocularly feared? Jocularly killed’s about right : DREADED
12-across – 21 3’s anything but increasing bird when the boss is about : FARFROM
13-across – Travel could be rough : RIDE
14-across – Under Milk Wood’s bigamist keeps last year’s leaders living : DAILYBREAD
16-across – Say what old currency means? : EXPOUND
17-across – American fellow about to manage one country in Africa : BURUNDI
19-across – After 6, Afghan regime, unbanned, restricts energies : VITALITIES
22-across – Party when going to 23 – a hind? : STAG
24-across – The French drunkard’s house in a country in Africa : LESOTHO
25-across – Minister, female, on setter’s account : MEACHER
26-across – Misshapen men or poetical monster : ENORM
27-across – Wild flower with tag, Light of Evening? : AFTERGLOW

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – See 20 : THEDURBERVILLES
2-down – Finding scene, which is said to include river, bathe! : SERENDIP
3-down – See 21 : HARDY
4-down – Initially dyed in the ____ and whence 21 3’s people came : WOODLAND
5-down – Right and left, very bad : LAWFUL
6-down – Spooner’s son Tertius, the Australian flyer : THORNBIRD
7-down – Look round 5 and don’t eat : STARVE
8-down – See 12 : THEMADDINGCROWD
15-down – Wriggly multipede or two in a bar : DUPLETIME
17-down – They are put out in bars and meet trouble : BEERMATS
18-down – Crazy, horrible place for summaries? : NUTSHELL
20-down – 21 3’s Sh! See lovebirds flutter feebly : TESSOF
21-down – Nearly hot potatoes eaten by late writer : THOMAS
23-down – Tie the knot indeed! : MARRY

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22353 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22353 clues and answers were published on Tue 30 Oct 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22353 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Suffering on top of lonesome pine : LANGUISH
9-across – Galvanised iron core, second-hand : ROUSED
10-across – Isle in south-east Kentucky : SKYE
11-across – Mouth-watering mixture of oils in a vat : SALIVATION
12-across – Immature beast has everything : CALLOW
14-across – Trouble with sailors taking in grand decking : ADORNING
15-across – Sausage from Spain, Switzerland or Italy : CHORIZO
17-across – Surprise about German connection : ASTOUND
20-across – Don’s role – translating a dead language : OLDNORSE
22-across – Distant cardinal, out of tune : OFFKEY
23-across – Quiet goddess in jeopardy on the fringe : PERIPHERAL
24-across – Art going to droop? : WILT
25-across – What examinees do between home and university is not out of place : INSITU
26-across – Talk about 22 down? : CONVERSE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Sponsor heading north saw hammerhead in receding waves : BACKWASH
2-down – The game’s up – the sappers have exposed a monster : OGRE
3-down – Puzzle about a Dances with Wolves debut? : JIGSAW
4-down – Letter from Greece with spare from somewhere in South America? : CHILEAN
5-down – Prior: clergyman in devout environment : PREVIOUS
6-down – Daunting postponement : PUTTINGOFF
7-down – America’s first female Attorney General – extremely well-known celebrity : RENOWN
13-down – Complaint making poor girl stay in : LARYNGITIS
16-down – Love and honour – not on time for action : ZEROHOUR
18-down – Gratuitous indicators on top of screen : NEEDLESS
19-down – Doctor with duck in northern stream revealing what is fundamental : BEDROCK
21-down – Kylie in Sydney Harbour stays in bed : LIEINS
22-down – One has grasped nothing about being connected to the network : ONLINE
24-down – Christopher’s ending in novel about architect : WREN

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22352 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22352 clues and answers were published on Mon 29 Oct 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22352 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – I mainly encountered round fish in drink : IMBIBE
4-across – One in a row put in dries out : DISPUTER
9-across – The state of one’s affairs when short : CIRCS
10-across – Unusual air about one seized by lady judges : JUDICIARY
11-across – Payment to a man in charge is very small : SUBATOMIC
12-across – Country type: the old line’s taken in all right : YOKEL
13-across – Tobacco waver taking part in country dance? : VIRGINIAREEL
17-across – For example, monitor involved in test for school subject : TRIGONOMETRY
20-across – The inclination to care is about right : TREND
21-across – Lancashire dish, one to produce a tricky problem : HOTPOTATO
23-across – Swapped old coins and old coins : EXCHANGED
24-across – Age is reconsidered in sponsorship : AEGIS
25-across – Policeman wearing material and short trousers, initially : SERGEANT
26-across – Splits continually seen in the ship : SEVERS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Most of ivy is nice; if rambling, the answer’s cutting : INCISIVE
2-down – Disease of fruit, we’re told repeatedly : BERIBERI
3-down – Kentish area in chance attack : BESET
5-down – Brainwashed? Not I – and with credit in order : INDOCTRINATED
6-down – Dreamy chap, not a bastard; he’s thick-skinned : PACHYDERM
7-down – Make them run away : TRACKS
8-down – Gold coins found in the Palace? : ROYALS
10-down – Skipping over the piece, acting prematurely : JUMPINGTHEGUN
14-down – Fuming about artist I’d backed to shine : IRRADIATE
15-down – Restrict the way by the river to fish : STRANGLE
16-down – Sketch of animal’s brought up by little sister : SYNOPSIS
18-down – Pressure point up : STRESS
19-down – One using foil to repair enclosure? : FENCER
22-down – Flowery, but not new, talk : ORATE

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

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