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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22186 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22186 clues and answers were published on Wed 18 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22186 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Moist and adhesive earth covers miles : CLAMMY
4-across – Show to the table : CABARET
9-across – Not one anti-beer? : INEBRIATE
10-across – Not the First Minister’s crime : ARSON
11-across – Heel’s in the pack : KNAVE
12-across – Local worker’s purpose in trade : BARTENDER
13-across – Defence takes skill with racket : RAMPART
15-across – Not a chant for projection : NOSING
17-across – Observe cutback in growths : POLYPS
19-across – Zealous umpire turns to give out : FERVENT
22-across – Killer’s sad story in Bambi, for example : DESTROYER
24-across – Almost obvious it’s a plate : PATEN
26-across – Some said I omitted dialect! : IDIOM
27-across – Close call sounds natural : TERMINATE
28-across – Speaker heard one with a lisp standing a round : TWEETER
29-across – Military station captures second tyrant : DESPOT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Slag clubs to one who’s joining : CLINKER
2-down – Ring up a date : ARENA
3-down – A charging soldier? : MERCENARY
4-down – V-sign made official? : CHEVRON
5-down – Slow roast is about right : BRAKE
6-down – Place specified in decrees? : RESIDENCE
7-down – ‘Eavy up in the far north : TUNDRA
8-down – Move initially giving scope? : GAMBIT
14-down – Seen in the still of the night? : MOONSHINE
16-down – Old instrument’s gloss masking rising cut : SERAPHINE
18-down – Crooked practitioner’s almost heading for emotional breakdown : SHYSTER
19-down – Pelt rock in rage : FURORE
20-down – Beat man overturning cot : TANGENT
21-down – Notice split is loose : ADRIFT
23-down – Let off standing watch : REMIT
25-down – How to walk the first slope? : TRAMP

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22185 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22185 clues and answers were published on Tue 17 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22185 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – New topic: strange sticks! : UNKNOWN
5-across – See 1 Across : COUNTRY
9-across – Windbreak conceals marshy land in front of church : FENCE
10-across – What Billy Bunter had in cycle cape : ROUNDNESS
11-across – Love poem’s unfinished: to an unpleasant person it’s all too much : OVERSPILL
12-across – Small radiator touching two spokes : RADII
13-across – Bound to keep lady covered in the bathroom? : TILED
15-across – Lorna’s bum’s different and undeveloped : SUBNORMAL
18-across – Nearly retreat, knowing how ugly sisters behave? : HIDEOUSLY
19-across – Boredom for everyone taken in by half-feminine dancing : ENNUI
21-across – Rushes of wind make Augustus join retiring saint : GUSTS
23-across – Flour’s sprinkled round street, which is sad : SORROWFUL
25-across – Inaccuracy is included in note for bully : TERRORISE
26-across – Also-ran won’t start to get closer : LOSER
27-across – Cause of envy and contention, messing up cradle with food pips : APPLEOF
28-across – See 27 Across : DISCORD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – It’s paid in advance, standing on the promenade : UPFRONT
2-down – In the doghouse with Kenneth, Eleanor and the editor : KENNELLED
3-down – Chaps breaking very large signs : OMENS
4-down – Beautiful youth makes cassis run all over the place : NARCISSUS
5-down – Bad-tempered person has twist round top of head : CHURL
6-down – Lightly cooked, so left holding back some wine : UNDERDONE
7-down – Walk, having time to understand : TREAD
8-down – She can’t say ‘No’ : YESGIRL
14-down – Leave out, namely, a single griddle-cake : DROPSCONE
16-down – Partner, by concealing ring, meets objective after Friday : BOYFRIEND
17-down – Statement of inmates altered : MANIFESTO
18-down – Meal had off tailless duck : HIGHTEA
20-down – Discourteous and unhealthy king’s asleep! : ILLBRED
22-down – Drink to hide your excessive sentimentality : SYRUP
23-down – Female suits made up to be formal : STIFF
24-down – Go back, Leslie, with eyes like a flirt! : OGLES

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22184 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22184 clues and answers were published on Mon 16 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22184 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Confines a lot with a little : AMBIT
4-across – Near-brown tan cow : BROWBEAT
8-across – : THEFULLENGLISH
10-across – So thin he’ll rip : RAKEHELL
11-across – Some part in A Doll’s House backed some part in Peer Gynt : ANITRA
12-across – With a tongue of silver or gold in a tailspin : ORATORIAL
15-across – Primitive ode compiled to nettle-rash : UREDO
17-across – Name a chess champion from around Pietermaritzburg : NATAL
18-across – Put out rings when backing a horse : APPALOOSA
19-across – Toothsome cloisonn* : ENAMEL
21-across – Nothing I don’t do for treatment of teeth : ODONTOID
24-across – What one’s good cause seeks? Try gelt found in distribution : LOTTERYFUNDING
25-across – Unpolished silver on staff detail : AGRESTIC
26-across – Paul’s pen-pal getting his oats, say? : TITUS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – PMT, say? This might ease the pangs : AFTERNOONTEA
2-down – See 8 : BREAKFAST
3-down – Grecian urn’s beauty : TRUTH
4-down – One backing the Russian folk : BALALAIKA
5-down – Flower of Normandy or Northumberland : ORNE
6-down – Fluent in double-talk? : BILINGUAL
7-down – A fool and : ASSET
9-down – Foundation of 8 2 dresses Conan Doyle initially, say, in trousers : BACONANDEGGS
13-down – Shell user crawling to lubricate a VW : OILBEETLE
14-down – If placid, one perhaps could be turned to stone : LAPIDIFIC
16-down – One who goes into money possibly comes into it! : ECONOMIST
20-down – Together with a name in the register : ALONG
22-down – Music from the Muses? : NONET
23-down – Revolutionary from the wrong uprising : TROT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22182 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22182 clues and answers were published on Fri 13 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22182 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Right page and right for the churchman : RECTOR
6-across – Polish? That’s what I am! : SMOOTHIE
9-across – Water pipe : HOOKAH
10-across – Most of barrow lad upset – in a pet, possibly? : LABRADOR
11-across – Recount aria performed anew – an expression of denial? : AUCONTRAIRE
15-across – One mailing letters about pound being inadequate : SLENDER
17-across – Trouble in globe is common : IGNOBLE
18-across – Means of lighting possessed by the super-rich? : MONEYTOBURN
22-across – Develop opera house in summer in Europe : ESCALATE
23-across – Keep the piece : CASTLE
24-across – Horse training to dip in tangled reeds : DRESSAGE
25-across – Musician in quiet band : PLAYER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The party chief’s field of knowledge : DOMAIN
2-down – Warmth mainly in the centre of power : AMIABILITY
3-down – Points once made by Wilson : FOURTEEN
4-down – Tries in a short dance to prepare for performance : REHEARSE
5-down – Note short time taken in decorative work : CROTCHET
7-down – Obscure old land measure : HIDE
8-down – Currency? Ex officio, the City is included : EURO
12-down – King in aggro to become settled. Ready for it? : RARINGTOGO
13-down – Skilfully holds breach when river goes unexpectedly : ABRUPTLY
14-down – Animal to control rising grass : REINDEER
16-down – Dismantle wreck : DEMOLISH
19-down – Expert for boat without a bow : ORACLE
20-down – People first do the repair : MEND
21-down – An area of sacred ground : ACRE

This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22181 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22181 clues and answers were published on Thu 12 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22181 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Formula One driver’s car still reaches a hundred : JENSON
4-across – Is one picky as Patton? : OPTANT
9-across – Song about to catch flies : TENGREENBOTTLES
10-across – Bed for a big girl : BERTHA
11-across – See 1 down : CREEPERS
12-across – A distressed call for installation of the greatest domestic hazard? : ASBESTOS
14-across – See 1 : BUTTON
15-across – Carriage provided to go round the area : FIACRE
18-across – Steer to the right of me, by no mistake: change here? : MONEYBOX
21-across – With which to purify floozie? : SCRUBBER
22-across – See 18 down : WALKER
24-across – Posh : VICTORIABECKHAM
25-across – Actor wearing fertiliser to make love : MARLON
26-across – See 25 : BRANDO

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Queen Virginia to be taken on board by military transport – yikes! : JEEPERS
2-down – Approaching the time which is said to fall : NIGHT
3-down – Implement to carve ham : OVERACT
5-down – Saw dog in pub, gutless : PROVERB
6-down – Abhorrence of pain that varies, variable : ANTIPATHY
7-down – Old instrument needs the sphere to ring : THEORBO
8-down – A quarter invested in bags of crisps, say : SNACKS
13-down – Dreadful tune during further performance cut short by fight : ENCOUNTER
16-down – Piece of hip music hip? Virtually swinging! : ISCHIUM
17-down – Nothing to interest me about the interdict : EMBARGO
18-down – Formula One enthusiast turned eccentric has to take hint – one is rambling : MURRAY
19-down – Now Epiphany, as if any were needed : NEWYEAR
20-down – Nothing orange about this plant! : OREGANO
23-down – Compare growth in conversation : LIKEN

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

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