Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22266 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22266 clues and answers were published on Fri 20 Jul 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22266 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – What some journalists do to set plot in action : SUBEDIT
5-across – Brass sound of a wine cask : SACKBUT
9-across – Youngster appearing in religious programme : SPROG
10-across – Daniel ran exceptionally with its help : ADRENALIN
11-across – Giving offence with disdain : INCONTEMPT
12-across – Dishy list puts fashionable fellows first : MENU
14-across – A brave tribe revolting? Just so : REBARBATIVE
18-across – Upkeep for working canteen at sea : MAINTENANCE
21-across – Friction with this girl could be rash : ELLA
22-across – 50% fail in the art of winning a fair lady : FAINTHEART
25-across – Likely to elude even the 23 : INODOROUS
26-across – Growth in the ecclesiastical domain, thank God : SEDGE
27-across – Likely to hold a high card, which is pleasant : LIKABLE
28-across – Supporter of Richard III finds it almost too risky in revolt : YORKIST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Bird is about to hide : SISKIN
2-down – Soup for Jerry out east, about a rouble : BORSCH
3-down – Condition of French teenager in trouble? : DEGENERATE
4-down – An article about Macbeth, say : THANE
5-down – Teacher takes on about rubbish – but it could be recycled : SCRAPIRON
6-down – Murderer’s sound punishment : CANE
7-down – Report like loaded weapon? : BULLETIN
8-down – Like some religious to get covered, with top bit missing : TONSURED
13-down – Sort of teacher : CATECHISER
15-down – Curse abundantly in India : BANGALORE
16-down – August sees mail order bearing ripe fruit : IMPERIAL
17-down – Clinton’s tool for pulling? : BILLHOOK
19-down – Indian nationalist heading for reform without English involvement : GANDHI
20-down – Way to a Somerset town : STREET
23-down – Parker’s negative turned positive : NOSEY
24-down – Rake gets jankers for being out of order : COMB

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22265 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22265 clues and answers were published on Thu 19 Jul 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22265 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Islands of ham among mutton? : BAHAMAS
5-across – Spoilt without dial? : DEFACED
9-across – Call operator first needs to make? : LOCAL
10-across – US parent outside a film studio, with no errors excepted, in a whirl : MAELSTROM
11-across – The good old sounds of copper holding girl, one unfazed – that’s right : CLASSICALMUSIC
13-across – River needs to be on-line : ELBE
14-across – Section for Muslim : PARABOLA
17-across – Turn out a posh left-winger by upbringing? : NURTURED
18-across – Bond reported in Bangkok? : THAI
21-across – Graduate : BAYEUXTAPESTRY
23-across – Gentil man, dressed or dressing? : ALIGNMENT
24-across – Offspring of resort in Wales heard in spring : APRIL
25-across – Little ruler used for making letters : KINGLET
26-across – Mixture required for dash in a car to a point : MELANGE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Nonsense letter from buyer : BULL
2-down – Hip : HUCKLEBERRYFINN
3-down – Harry doctor in case : MOLEST
4-down – Meeting for all with German : SUMMIT
5-down – Practised a method without point – it faded out : DIEDAWAY
6-down – Female Ishmael, slightly disturbed, taken on Fridays? : FISHMEAL
7-down – Entertaining the lady, princes throw out architect : CHRISTOPHERWREN
8-down – Popular rising quoted about a Catholic order : DEMOCRATIC
12-down – Stamp girl Cilla : PENNYBLACK
15-down – Gold inside sodium left from the fall : AUTUMNAL
16-down – What an MP has to beat in a car? : SEATBELT
19-down – Rams coming up with hesitation display phlegm : SPUTUM
20-down – Be aggressive when with canvas? : ASSAIL
22-down – Spend spend spend, Tory fashion : BLUE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22264 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22264 clues and answers were published on Wed 18 Jul 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22264 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Women steering at sea or hoofing it? : TILLERGIRLS
9-across – It’s child’s play to look endlessly about : PEEKABO
10-across – Two kings accepting an order : RANKING
11-across – General in command in Northern Ireland going back to Ulster to an assumed identity : INCOGNITO
12-across – Old King’s Counsellors providing wit and wisdom : WITAN
13-across – French good taste can cause pain : GOUT
14-across – Large farm spread round king’s recognition signal : MARKERFLAG
16-across – Sounds like the late Vice President’s political philosophy has to do with Arabic or decimal counting : ALGORISMIC
19-across – A golf player : GARY
21-across – Boast, they say, about someone from Zagreb : CROAT
22-across – Roundabout long since redesigned : ENCLOSING
24-across – Follow the leftie at a gentle pace : DOGTROT
25-across – Cleaned up, as a parasite did : SPONGED
26-across – Put on important hat for the races : DONKEYDERBY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Attila or Tamburlaine, perhaps: of course, he’d g-got a divine means of punishment : THESCOURGEOFGOD
2-down – Force nail back into Chinese measurement : LIANG
3-down – Unusual collection made when late partner cut one coat : EXOTICA
4-down – Grouse about crook getting the George Cross : GORCOCK
5-down – Wretched fellow on call’s got a fungal infection : RINGWORM
6-down – Like a star, travelling singly round wreck of Titanic with two students : SCINTILLATINGLY
7-down – Make a confession about advertising some time before the summer : SPRING
8-down – Gone back round the child’s horse, they say, to get a drink : EGGNOG
15-down – Siblings who can sometimes be exclusive? : BRETHREN
16-down – Four-bar cadenza containing an overarching passage : ARCADE
17-down – Peter’s confused about 100 staff : SCEPTRE
18-down – Cleanly cut: it sounds just the opposite of very large : INCISED
20-down – Words to invoke the old divinities in the theatre? : YEGODS
23-down – Sanctity’s sweet smell? : ODOUR

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22263 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22263 clues and answers were published on Tue 17 Jul 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22263 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – One side of the coin causes difficulty : REVERSE
5-across – He follows craze for putting total in writing : FADDIST
10-across – Recess in the cheap seats : APSE
11-across – Drug pusher is to reach pay settlement : APOTHECARY
12-across – Left a novice at the entrance : PORTAL
13-across – Way to take in a worried green police officer? : SERGEANT
14-across – They remove everything from tourist on board ship : STRIPPERS
16-across – Girl returning item of property : ASSET
17-across – Ceases to need plugs : STOPS
19-across – Girl Adler treated in church : CATHEDRAL
23-across – Do a dance for a fee : CONTANGO
24-across – Delicious beverage sailor found at northern city : NECTAR
26-across – Home truths in speech by traitor? : BLUNTWORDS
27-across – Fail to include order given to Italian : OMIT
28-across – A soft fruit, it seems : APPEARS
29-across – Doctor Grey involved in combined action : SYNERGY

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Make gain out of heroic feat : EXPLOIT
3-down – Incident bringing girl to book : EVENT
4-down – Must work on boat : SHALLOP
6-down – Had trouble before with stick : ADHERE
7-down – Went down and removed folds : DECREASED
8-down – Called about odd set not being one’s own? : STRANGE
9-down – Keep a riot going inside a musical academy : CONSERVATOIRE
15-down – Helplessness and how, perhaps, men cope with it : IMPOTENCE
18-down – Slut performing turn in highest place : TROLLOP
20-down – Sharpen pen, but retain candour : HONESTY
21-down – Making humble vessel in silver : ABASING
22-down – Retort of unfortunate Swan Queen? : ANSWER
25-down – Near to the end : CLOSE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22262 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22262 clues and answers were published on Mon 16 Jul 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22262 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Recorder may accept this complicated test case : CASSETTE
9-across – Dress I put on about spring : ORIGIN
10-across – Skilled apprentice in Lincoln : ABLE
11-across – Musicians’ money belts? : BRASSBANDS
12-across – A group often described as vicious : CIRCLE
14-across – Idle indication that clock has stopped? : TICKOVER
15-across – Plainly distressed, but retains composure : INTEARS
17-across – Revolutionary air followed by early motorists : REDFLAG
20-across – Figure of importance in American defence : PENTAGON
22-across – That deserving fellow? : WORTHY
23-across – A sign of economy afoot : SHOESTRING
24-across – Stud manager : BOSS
25-across – Perform in pantomime horse, perhaps? That creates interest : BEHALF
26-across – Someone must have been willing to appoint him : EXECUTOR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Welsh river name : CAMBRIAN
2-down – What divides the Church, say, in Ireland, perhaps : ISLE
3-down – Fast horses : STABLE
4-down – Fine plan, yet poorly presented : PENALTY
5-down – Dogs race round the cemetery : GODSACRE
6-down – One’s last chance to take the lot : FINALOFFER
7-down – Toy instrument : FIDDLE
13-down – Keep arguing, as Mrs Sprat does : CHEWTHEFAT
16-down – Immediately cancel, we hear : RIGHTOFF
18-down – Had odd mounting noise from attachment : ADHESION
19-down – I’ve cut the tips for the salad : ENDIVES
21-down – Breaking code, he made a resounding comeback : ECHOED
22-down – Ringmaster? : WAGNER
24-down – Show emotion, seeing spring flower coming up : BLUB

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

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