Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22284 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22284 clues and answers were published on Fri 10 Aug 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22284 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – A help for the latecomers? : NIGHTSCHOOL
9-across – Reservation about the French garment : DOUBLET
10-across – Helps in a way in Italian town, when one is lost : ASSISTS
11-across – Eyes close to them? Hope sleep’s improved : PEEPHOLES
12-across – Port? Yes, overseas wine : RIOJA
13-across – Marketing cruise, we hear : SALE
14-across – Attacking position for the game leader : BRIDGEHEAD
16-across – Winning, or following? : SUCCEEDING
19-across – Encourage what a gambler has : ABET
21-across – An expression of contempt that’s silly : APISH
22-across – Exaggerate importance of cricketing worth? : OVERVALUE
24-across – A half-ripe plum could be in flower : PRIMULA
25-across – City’s mathematical branch cut short, expressed briefly : LACONIC
26-across – Meriel leads ramble in the country : EMERALDISLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – This fare’s not overdone in France : NOUVELLECUISINE
2-down – Pull up Church from a deep split : GULCH
3-down – Token ritual rearranged after time : TITULAR
4-down – Put in place in school? : CLASSED
5-down – Interested spectator to note runs : OBSERVER
6-down – One doesn’t want to do this at a bank : LOSEONESBALANCE
7-down – Assumes Parent-Teacher Association’s do has a good mix : ADOPTS
8-down – Say I’ll be in the road or at sea : ISLAND
15-down – Farm accommodation for females : HENHOUSE
16-down – Neat cross : SNAPPY
17-down – I love being in play in a model scene : DIORAMA
18-down – It’s essential to include Latin. Annoyed? : NEEDLED
20-down – Fish around river-ditch : TRENCH
23-down – Wrongdoings when first three leave the armed forces : VICES

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22283 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22283 clues and answers were published on Thu 09 Aug 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22283 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – * Song about goldfish : ARAUCARIA
10-across – Assured of keeping rust in plants : UREDO
11-across – Game needing double top : DIABOLO
12-across – Where reluctant Scotsman lives? : LOTHIAN
13-across – Two notes from a Port-uguese folk song : FADO
14-across – Bouncer at the Leisure Club? : TRAMPOLINE
16-across – Silver ring on the floor : AGROUND
17-across – It could be bought for a tanner : SUNLAMP
19-across – A he-man died horribly here : MAIDENHEAD
22-across – Orcadian hut for retreating louts : SKIO
24-across – Where one holds the driver! : PILLION
25-across – * Castro, with the heart of a lion : FIDELIO
26-across – * River maiden, perhaps : ROVER
27-across – Maori chief smuggled gun to IRA : RANGATIRA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Capital members’ gardens redeveloped for the Millennium : CARDIFFARMSPARK
2-down – Raider starting to arrange a murder most foul : MARAUDER
3-down – A novel shovel : SCOOP
4-down – Suited for night warfare, by the sound of it : ARMOURED
5-down – In Aqaba, a lime grove houses fertility gods : BAALIM
6-down – * Bridge opponents found after both run away : BUNTHORNE
7-down – * Car behind empty garage : GEMINI
8-down – A different way of asking to be wed at the bar : COUNTERPROPOSAL
15-down – Good daughters end as good mothers : SUPERIORS
17-down – Support for the workforce? : STAFFING
18-down – All I do with a potassium compound is this : ALKALOID
20-down – Where sweethearts fell most violently at sea… : INLOVE
21-down – * … then drank the contents : HENDRA
23-down – He lives by puffing : ADMAN

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22282 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22282 clues and answers were published on Wed 08 Aug 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22282 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Author of decision about 1,500 feet going to sleep : RUDYARDKIPLING
9-across – Suffer German and consequently Latin : UNDERGO
10-across – Destination of selenite and not heartless magician : NORWICH
11-across – Proceeding after ladybird : HERON
12-across – Dr Lewis’s round near 10 : WYMONDHAM
13-across – Catcher and actor, a smasher? : NETPLAYER
14-across – Mathematician didn’t finish in Italy : TURIN
15-across – Shakespearean part of a sanctimonious nature : TIMON
17-across – Steam train carrying a divine serpent : PUFFADDER
20-across – Russian aircraft with share of international travel? : MIGRATION
22-across – Stop listening to the catwalk operators : PAUSE
23-across – Put in liquor, confused rat with lizard : LACERTA
24-across – Baffle in France no longer : NONPLUS
25-across – Maid in bed, servant likewise, with Poles around America : BLACKEYEDSUSAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Worker constrained by gout, sadly, amid thunderous noise of fighting : ROUGHANDTUMBLE
2-down – French philosopher: ‘is decay is queried : DIDEROT
3-down – Hormone that’s red in Lana Turner : ADRENALIN
4-down – Entrance by party or style : DOORWAY
5-down – In radio no mercy is shown to constituent of bottle : IONOMER
6-down – Actress exchanging role with Pole : LOREN
7-down – No sense in it? No, none: her merry heart is broken : NEITHER
8-down – See 7 : RHYMENORREASON
14-down – Ornamental inveiglements? : TRAPPINGS
16-down – Mummy’s girl going round in charge of spelling? : MAGICAL
17-down – How much, including tax if Anne is involved, for initiative? : PRIVATE
18-down – See 17 Down : FINANCE
19-down – Has a second function when tramlines are in use : DOUBLES
21-down – Bill keeps a day for the poet’s continent : AFRIC

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22281 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22281 clues and answers were published on Tue 07 Aug 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22281 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Quarrel leading to underworld contract : DISAGREEMENT
8-across – He composed grievous sins admitted by French king : ROSSINI
9-across – Signified by inserting negative in Act : DENOTED
11-across – TV company ran poster in Georgia : GRANADA
12-across – Story to make advocates turn pale outwardly : PARABLE
13-across – Fish in net thrown back by companion : TENCH
14-across – Man within the bounds of the infinite : LIMITLESS
16-across – Forged iron panel without equal : NONPAREIL
19-across – Bird wearing headgear : CAPON
21-across – Pertaining to regular course, or part a novice followed : ORBITAL
23-across – Go to sleep, being unable to hang on : DROPOFF
24-across – Evil monarch out for slaughter : KILLING
25-across – The last longer overall? : OUTWEAR
26-across – Carry out sole test needed to adapt to new conditions? : FEELONESFEET

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Died suffering India’s scorn : DISDAIN
2-down – Vegetable in Spain served on china : SPINACH
3-down – Girl putting screen round painting : GRISAILLE
4-down – Finish the wrong way round : ENDUP
5-down – Tower where time ran out : MINARET
6-down – Distinguished person is apparently inefficient : NOTABLE
7-down – Novel view of old statesman on modern music : BRIGHTONROCK
10-down – Treat alike when in ceremonial attire : DRESSUNIFORM
15-down – Agreeable to the ear of model upset by debts : MELODIOUS
17-down – Unable to grasp point about heavenly bodies : NEBULAE
18-down – Hint about everybody round the formicary : ANTHILL
19-down – Chuckle when her colt’s misbehaving : CHORTLE
20-down – Demonstrate against professional being on trial : PROTEST
22-down – Instal a gantry from which to explore for ocean wreckage : LAGAN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22280 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22280 clues and answers were published on Mon 06 Aug 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22280 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Two card games one may come across : PONTOONBRIDGE
10-across – Be taunted about being a young socialite : DEBUTANTE
11-across – Large kind of type in the chapter : CANON
12-across – Stay in Lincoln – I would : ABIDE
13-across – Subordinate in a position lower than Heather : UNDERLING
14-across – A breach of security : LEAKAGE
16-across – Tabitha changes one’s environment : HABITAT
18-across – Where man cuts adrift? : SANCTUM
20-across – Lead about a hundred into deep trouble : PRECEDE
21-across – Get into debt? Not interested : INCURIOUS
23-across – Yet this may increase a don’s standing : CHAIR
24-across – She inspired the lyrics in the opera Tosca : ERATO
25-across – Man of many parts, perhaps : AUTOMATON
26-across – One gets down to the cleaning with this : FEATHERDUSTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – See 17 : OFBRITAIN
3-down – Handle right : TITLE
4-down – One of us turns out to be unemployable : OFNOUSE
5-down – The measure of the Bard? : BREADTH
6-down – Having no remedy but to suffer an island uprising : INCURABLE
7-down – Gin that is a form of bottled spirits : GENII
8-down – Faultlessly dressed – like perfect partners? : IDEALLYSUITED
9-down – Champions away from home? : KNIGHTSERRANT
15-down – Right at the back, yet wanting the lion’s share : AFTERMOST
17-down – Few were victorious in this : THEBATTLE
19-down – Bank parking fee : MOORAGE
20-down – Assumed it’s minced topside : POSITED
22-down – Make cracks on passing fashion : CRAZE
23-down – French writer quietly exits the academic field : CAMUS

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

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