Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22278 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22278 clues and answers were published on Fri 03 Aug 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22278 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Roger brought before the beak over drawing back a curtain : PURDAH
5-across – Bile gland trouble can be shocking : LIVERAIL
9-across – Inclination to give a swan song? : PENCHANT
10-across – You are failed lovers! : SOLVER
11-across – Tries charges of fiddling the till : CASHREGISTER
13-across – The priest is wrong to put the last first : LEVI
14-across – Church following the lunar cycle? : LUTHERAN
17-across – Diabolical ally is dropping King Henry the First : FIENDISH
18-across – Weight not acceptable as in the past : ONCE
20-across – Abandons network for making trains late? : LEAVESONLINE
23-across – A place by the motorway in the middle of France : MILIEU
24-across – Brave one died after Pinter play : INTREPID
25-across – Common attitude among church people? : KNEELING
26-across – Tea urn for brewing essence : NATURE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Wearer of trousers lacking sort of turn-up? : USER
3-down – Nice doctor shortly produced a pharmacological essence : DECOCTION
4-down – Car case for carcase? : HEARSE
5-down – Putting consideration to one side may provide a solution : LATERALTHINKING
6-down – Old migrant making call on hospital without leave : VISIGOTH
7-down – Parts dealt to the loser : ROLES
8-down – Awkwardness of canine leg bent at bottom of pole : INELEGANCE
12-down – A certain point, of course, where the man is in danger with no one about : PERIHELION
15-down – A bolt, perhaps in ironwork : ELOPEMENT
16-down – State where we feel separation from our island : MISSOURI
19-down – Some young ladies not up to college… : GIRTON
21-down – … possibly active in vice ring? : VOICE
22-down – Drink said to give bodily support : BIER

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22277 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22277 clues and answers were published on Thu 02 Aug 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22277 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Heard where Karachi is, a capital with a characteristic pattern? : SYNDROME
5-across – Tory has a taste for garlic in apple pie : CLOVES
9-across – History isn’t acute to the French : CHRONICLE
11-across – Number and weight are inconceivable : NOTON
12-across – Spoke to a bird about illegally published works : PIRATEDBOOKS
15-across – Girl no longer tender? : ANNA
16-across – Copy for piano: after lapse of time I get up : PLAGIARISE
18-across – Crucial leading oarsmen at work on a typewriter : KEYSTROKES
19-across – 27 character doesn’t sound like a worker : IDOL
21-across – Director in the manner of – in the matter of – ass in translation : ALAINRESNAIS
24-across – Prophet has taken a humble part : NAHUM
25-across – American city nudity impersonated by Toad : LAUNDREES
26-across – Decision classes? : RULING
27-across – Butler included in a benefit that’s much appreciated : ADORABLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – See 7 : SICA
2-down – Grass for N-Noah’s? : NARK
3-down – Director concerned with type of film : RENOIR
4-down – Director to be in debt after building chapel in factory : MICHAELPOWELL
6-down – Small Viking vessel with sobering effect? : LONGBOAT
7-down – Director whose life contains love in 3 for princess? Just so : VITTORIODI
8-down – Characteristic of a sorority keeping home in ominous manner : SINISTERLY
10-down – Fevered gunner prepared to provide money for business : EVERGREENFUND
13-down – Director of crew J.A. Rank directed : TACKWARNER
14-down – Director before struggle with unknown getting a break : ANDYWARHOL
17-down – Stand-in for tough parts to reduce size of 23 : STUNTMAN
20-down – Director is not so domesticated : WILDER
22-down – Report of restriction on pavement : KERB
23-down – Detail from Sisley’s Earth in Water : ISLE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22276 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22276 clues and answers were published on Wed 01 Aug 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22276 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Antidote is perhaps a foot behind the bar : COUNTERMEASURE
8-across – A tree is more secure when pollarded : OSIER
9-across – Fight about drunk returning weapon : STILETTO
11-across – Engineers rejected lad’s shattered stone : EMERALD
12-across – Movement of man in hazard : ANDANTE
13-across – Force politician to wear revolutionary garland : IMPEL
15-across – Earl has desire to buttonhole male doctor for drug : EPHEDRINE
17-across – Bad weather bisecting the plateau can be focused : TRAINABLE
20-across – Many slim and lift weights : CLEAN
21-across – Falls once more when retreating from gunman : NIAGARA
23-across – Prince only eats one fish : HALIBUT
25-across – Boy keeps birds in part of ship : STERNSON
26-across – Inch back towards oriental girl : ELSIE
27-across – Respect ruined after Ben’s filled with shock, seeing apparition : BROCKENSPECTRE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Meet under bar when tight : CLOSEFITTING
2-down – One gets support from eastern ally : UNITE
3-down – Waterproof for man initially immersed in water : TARPAULIN
4-down – Strange desire to keep uranium waste : RESIDUE
5-down – What about pious exploit for lapidary phrases : EPITAPH
6-down – Use to drive round Portugal : SPEND
7-down – Not forgetting wine taken in raid in Scotland : RETENTIVE
10-down – Heathen erred sporadically in various places : HEREANDTHERE
14-down – Give performer gold for a charlatan : PLAYACTOR
16-down – In a low-cut dress officer’s about to remove : DECOLLETE
18-down – Club idiot tucking into cheese : BRASSIE
19-down – Girl upset about feature on sea urchin : ECHINUS
22-down – Staying in Nassau, Richard Strauss revealed he composed : AURIC
24-down – Attach Egyptian in triumph : BESET

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22275 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22275 clues and answers were published on Tue 31 Jul 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22275 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – A fitting question, but said to appear exaggerated? : DOESMY
4-across – See 1 : BUMLOOK
9-across – See 1 : BIGINTHIS
10-across – Joint gear for one overseas, we hear? : MITRE
11-across – Arsenal’s first to be taken in by red cards : TAROT
12-across – Clothing down under open? Hasty adjustment required! : PANTYHOSE
13-across – Why the chicken didn”t cross the road? Exhaustion : RUNDOWN
15-across – You have to c-charge the favourite at a fair lick? : TOFFEE
17-across – See 20 : ANDSON
19-across – French novelist holds himself briefly in palm : CALAMUS
22-across – See 3 : CARBUNCLE
24-across – See 15 : APPLE
26-across – About to attack and make good : REFIT
27-across – Will students take it and evangelists holler it on time? : TESTAMENT
28-across – See 13 : BATTERY
29-across – To attack from the air, Biggles & Co set randomly about it : STRAFE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Bambi to hold club, one contends : DEBATER
2-down – Counter of pulses heading off for the mountain : EIGER
3-down – Clumsier conurbations not ones to be rebuilt, in describing the National Gallery extension : MONSTROUS
4-down – Something placed round a wrong helmet : BASINET
5-down – Relatively speaking, one’s kept under wraps : MUMMY
6-down – Do see to Mr Nasty’s hard skin : OSTEODERM
7-down – Uprising of revolutionary king, Napoleon’s successor in Egypt : KLEBER
8-down – Composer uses middle note, so if you need a lift… : CHOPIN
14-down – Likely lecturer retained by dunce not making money : NONPROFIT
16-down – Break down completely when Spooner calls me an old codger : FALLAPART
18-down – Attempt to reach French resort? You weren’t far off : NICETRY
19-down – VIP on board? : CHEESE
20-down – Poets on Dante’s characters: They needed Hercules to work! : STEPTOE
21-down – Vehicle lapped by another, but only one a Beetle : SCARAB
23-down – Loose women in the family goes topless : UNTIE
25-down – Mother and child of religious separatists? : PIETA

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22274 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22274 clues and answers were published on Mon 30 Jul 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22274 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Revolver produced by a pyrotechnist? : CATHERINE
10-across – Coming from Wales, rows with world entertainer! : SWORD
11-across – Old Turkish governor gets to pose in it, being fat : OBESITY
12-across – Praise tank I love working around : OVATION
13-across – Repugnant article about romance : ALIEN
14-across – Cover note I’d written out is given a heading : CAPTIONED
16-across – Instructions once written on tablets? : TENCOMMANDMENTS
19-across – Patient takes second part from dish : CASSEROLE
21-across – Praise given to student once ahead : EXTOL
22-across – Ruin act, removing veil : CURTAIN
23-across – They write about street restaurants : BISTROS
24-across – See 9 : WHEEL
25-across – See 10 : SWALLOWER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Clash with stoic could be academic : SCHOLASTIC
2-down – Capital person then takes a man outside : ATHENIAN
3-down – Without mother, made to autograph sketch : DESIGN
4-down – Classy girl leaves it in large town : CITY
5-down – Northern peer comes running round for reward : RECOMPENSE
6-down – Part of Joe’s cap is made abroad, avoiding reality : ESCAPISM
7-down – One regularly taking cannabis before a dose of medicine : POTION
8-down – Loaded vessel’s last to leave port : ADEN
14-down – Frequency usual on famous loch : COMMONNESS
15-down – Liquid rises – could leak : DISCLOSURE
17-down – Dungarees and everything in sets of six deliveries : OVERALLS
18-down – Badly burnt individual’s colour : NUTBROWN
20-down – Order string : SERIES
21-down – See when one enters with little trouble : EASILY
22-down – Monk may wear this on cold hooter! : COWL
23-down – Smile broadly, accepting a medal : BEAM

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

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