Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22254 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22254 clues and answers were published on Fri 06 Jul 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22254 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Baddy and goody have a share – it goes to show! : DEMONSTRATION
10-across – Tripe, if turned out by journalist when stoned : PETRIFIED
11-across – Set of nine or ten on reflection : NONET
12-across – Rule of restraint without force : REIGN
13-across – It may go down before a fire : HEARTHRUG
14-across – Tarmac damaged by first road vehicle : TRAMCAR
16-across – Not even little by little, a traitor infiltrated : ERRATIC
18-across – Native unrest starting massacre in the Far East : VIETNAM
20-across – Field doctor treated bowman : FIDDLER
21-across – Perhaps Californian Guardian is more rigorous : WESTERNER
23-across – Shade said to facilitate vehicular access : KHAKI
24-across – Joint feature of Zoroastrian ritual? : ROAST
25-across – Authorising publication about falsehood : RELEASING
26-across – Summit meeting? It could go with a bang! : HEADSTOGETHER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Trace exit – unusual way to get out : EXTRICATE
3-down – Vegetable for one caught up in forbidding situation : ONION
4-down – Hitler’s uncontrolled progress? : SLITHER
5-down – It’s binding on official intelligence : REDTAPE
6-down – Put in solution as instructed – no second turn : TINCTURED
7-down – Some children, women and dogs upset the proprietor : OWNER
8-down – Promise shown by a workman – there’s the nub : OPERATIVEWORD
9-down – One bears with dramatic bearing : STAGECARRIAGE
15-down – Happy little girl and boy, about 10 : CONTENTED
17-down – Chatty chess champion, a girl about 4 : TALKATIVE
19-down – A short time down and age going up – time on the tower : MINARET
20-down – Limb singled out for elegance – not half! : FORELEG
22-down – Least fresh? : STALE
23-down – Serpent – old craft put up with it : KRAIT

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22253 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22253 clues and answers were published on Thu 05 Jul 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22253 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – The carrier’s in liquor, the rat! : BETRAYER
9-across – See 21 : HEARTS
10-across – Jumper to do a runner, say : FLEA
11-across – Big bud, the way into favour : BESTFRIEND
12-across – Playwright’s half 2 in cheese : BARRIE
14-across – 24across comes back and nods off: they 2 24across’s 11 : DIAMONDS
15-across – A send off for one of 9 or 14 : REDCARD
17-across – A weight – I can carry it all : ATONEGO
20-across – Grand student on fieldwork at scene of 18 : KLONDIKE
22-across – Gates, maybe, soft before time : PEARLY
23-across – Galilee, the place arranged with an opening : ANTECHAPEL
24-across – Friday’s child? Some giving, right, and a little loving? : GIRL
25-across – Part of the bloodline in paternal grandmother? : PLASMA
26-across – Mediterranean 2, home about 2 : NEAREAST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – What 13 does is 8 : TELLTALE
2-down – Region with a reason, without an issue : AREA
3-down – 15 means extra repeats : BYEBYE
4-down – Take chair before team? : PRESIDE
5-down – See 19 : THEFEAST
6-down – Muslim leader, cast iron, at a scene of 18 : CALIFORNIA
7-down – Out of one’s mind with 14? : STONED
13-down – Scheherazade was seen playing with our cat : RACONTEUSE
16-down – Terminus unidentifiable since privatisation? : RAILHEAD
18-down – Lord Muck in effusion by Charlie Chaplin : GOLDRUSH
19-down – Sneak thief, for example, with pet arrangement for celebrating Christmas? : KEEPING
21-down – If they want company, name a cathedral to attend: there are plenty about : LONELY
22-down – Church’s column, not well within standard : PILLAR
24-down – Hoddle in Scotland for a single night? : GLEN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22252 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22252 clues and answers were published on Wed 04 Jul 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22252 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Graduates’s research station returns the ointment : BALSAM
5-across – What one goes back to at the drawing-board? : BASICS
8-across – Old transport for the chop? : TUMBREL
9-across – Fight continued to the finish : CONTEND
11-across – Young sprouts in the salad? : MUSTARDANDCRESS
12-across – Make ready for sailing while in dock : TRIM
13-across – Indecisive boundary row : BORDERLINE
17-across – Roads meet in confusion round the North; they can improve things : EMENDATORS
18-across – Back scores: one known for shooting : STEN
20-across – Smooth flow of language, or a mistake? : SLIPOFTHETONGUE
23-across – One we get to return in different ways: an attendant : STEWARD
24-across – TNT – as in explosive flash : INSTANT
25-across – Showing mettle – or metal? : STEELY
26-across – A group of spectators not right in the cooking area! : GALLEY

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Notice the formal letter allowing entry : ADMISSIVE
3-down – Half county’s transport one dismissed as a financial burden … : SURTAX
4-down – … one tramload could be awkward … : MALADROIT
5-down – … and no transport turns up for painter : BACON
6-down – Function? To preserve a cushy job! : SINECURE
7-down – The town’s team, they say : CREWE
8-down – Work without security on locks for sirens : TEMPTRESSES
10-down – Centre minds to settle for good judgement : DISCERNMENT
14-down – Man in defiance is becoming more obscure : DARKENING
15-down – Perform mathematical task and get in tangle with estimate : INTEGRATE
16-down – Recommend a defender : ADVOCATE
19-down – The inventor left a little something : MORSEL
21-down – Nitre – active or passive? : INERT
22-down – Empty tray holding rum drink : TODDY

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22251 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22251 clues and answers were published on Tue 03 Jul 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22251 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – New order for vengeance goes round the underworld : REDISTRIBUTION
9-across – North-east German’s on the booze – it’s supposedly medicinal : NOSTRUM
10-across – Flashy car containing Old Man River : LIMPOPO
11-across – Strike at heart of Bactria and feature of its native : THUMP
12-across – Athletes charge for entertainment : DIVERSION
13-across – Asian always keeping near the back : EASTERNER
14-across – Cake for the party freak : DONUT
15-across – University surrounded by smells of decaying matter : HUMUS
17-across – A catholic compound is reflected in imitations : SIMULACRA
20-across – Spooner’s to use 21 on social misfit or clubber : NIGHTBIRD
22-across – Dark entity left inside : UNLIT
23-across – Surface dweller loves to zip around in space : EPIZOON
24-across – Letter from Greece, as opposed to wine from Italy : CHIANTI
25-across – Eastern hospital in filthy surroundings – that’s about the finish! : ESCHATOLOGICAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Do something different – indicate editorial interference? : RINGTHECHANGES
2-down – Exploded Scud missiles miles out? Write an essay on it : DISCUSS
3-down – They reveal all to tourist on board : STRIPPERS
4-down – Month’s notice received by Royal Academy Fellow : RAMADAN
5-down – A Bovril recipe that’s revolutionary : BOLIVAR
6-down – Row about origin of metrical chronometer : TIMER
7-down – Member of university producing artificial stock and bread containing iodine : OXONIAN
8-down – Can James or Charles grind down the philosopher? : JOHNSTUARTMILL
14-down – Soaking, involving the Spanish pest control treatment : DELOUSING
16-down – Self-deprecatory term for robberies with violence, but without force : MUGGINS
17-down – Music maker to emulate spider with web : SPINNET
18-down – Award about 99 for examination : MEDICAL
19-down – Stomach disorder inhibiting working of the bowel : COLONIC
21-down – Laugh hysterically about model mounting Jag : TOOTH

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22250 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22250 clues and answers were published on Mon 02 Jul 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22250 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Seaweed with an eastern name beginning to twist : ENTANGLE
9-across – Bear is unlikely to get hydrophobia : RABIES
10-across – The black heart of Caleb O’Neil : EBON
11-across – In two minds when three notes are written in anger : IRRESOLUTE
12-across – A joiner’s raw material : STAPLE
14-across – Puts to some purpose; returning, says you heard about one being fired : UTILIZES
15-across – Broadcast reflected fellow’s outgoing character – gray? : DORIAN
17-across – Chopin pieces can be voiced : PHONIC
20-across – A figure to make him brood : RHOMBOID
22-across – In Scotland, one without £25 for a flower : PAEONY
23-across – Take away the queen by computer? : SUBTRACTER
24-across – Dashed off a listener’s complaint : FLEW
25-across – Old road tax is firm about odd riot : OCTROI
26-across – Cheek shows state of health : RUDENESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Girl graduate with time for a man is not weakening : UNABATED
2-down – A colour to flatter : FAWN
3-down – From the design, it expressly appears light : IGNITE
4-down – King’s in the river! Brother Henry comes round at a fair lick! : BRISKISH
5-down – Cheerful enthusiasm shown for European papal document that is new to the church : EBULLIENCE
6-down – Pay up: that’s the form! : SETTLE
8-down – Fly away fearfully … Heard enough? : EARFUL
13-down – Bossy traveller turns up, or comes in hungry : PEREMPTORY
16-down – Mac to Ira: This could be spicy : AROMATIC
18-down – Cat noise startled paddler : CANOEIST
19-down – Pressman tried nothing new : EDITOR
21-down – Intuitive feeling about a joint : HAUNCH
22-down – Stuff about artist taking drug is for show : PARADE
24-down – OK, a penalty! : FINE

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

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