Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22180 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22180 clues and answers were published on Wed 11 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22180 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

5-across – A Labour leader takes many shares out : ALLOTS
6-across – Pained expression when taken in by French article that’s disreputable : LOUCHE
9-across – Porn is circulating in jail : PRISON
10-across – Men circumnavigating 504 islands : MALDIVES
11-across – Stocking filler for a little beast : CALF
12-across – Cotton sari crumpled in drawer : CARTOONIST
13-across – Row for a change about Conservative leader : ALTERCATION
18-across – Source of article in part of France : PROVENANCE
21-across – Almost regretting destruction : RUIN
22-across – Tea and pieces of pitta bread : CHAPATTI
23-across – Vaulting ambition involves a piece of gamesmanship : GAMBIT
24-across – Undiluted sound in passage : STRAIT
25-across – First-class men required as spies : AGENTS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Composer with bad flu is perfectly happy : BLISSFUL
2-down – Without stress, add one hundred to one hundred : ATONIC
3-down – Do one’s best to be objective with yobbo : GOALLOUT
4-down – Director’s call for fighting : ACTION
5-down – A broken rib and a gashed head? This should prevent that : AIRBAG
7-down – The majority of Stevenson’s letters are all the same : EVENSO
8-down – Recipe mania may be the source of a popular song : AMERICANPIE
14-down – A German saint and a German physicist : EINSTEIN
15-down – In custody pending trial, one man died protecting ringleader : ONREMAND
16-down – Members of a priestly class drop in to see a composer : BRAHMS
17-down – Neil is drunk and stays in bed : LIEINS
19-down – Queen surrounded by brass snakes : VIPERS
20-down – Pledge oneself to come into battle : ENGAGE

This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22179 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22179 clues and answers were published on Tue 10 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22179 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Grand picture of parents carrying girl … : PANORAMA
5-across – … she is the second child : ISABEL
9-across – Engaged in action, a fool returns in dressing : LITIGANT
10-across – Moor with an unfinished set of notes : ANCHOR
11-across – Turning and spinning around from one giddy extreme to the other : GYRATORY
12-across – Offensive antipodean girl confiscated arms, as may be : AKIMBO
14-across – Criminal mover holding back orchestra : SHOPLIFTER
18-across – Encore Mahler’s first: Unfinished composer’s about to have eye trouble : STRABISMUS
22-across – Fletcher’s customer featured in soap? : ARCHER
23-across – Stimulate growth, even in jar : GENERATE
24-across – 15 downs shouldn’t be so coarse : GRITTY
25-across – Walk over winning jockey’s performance? : BESTRIDE
26-across – Fasten colour in ranks : TIERED
27-across – Silver in heavenly ornament : ASTRAGAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Humour and acidity preceding stage manager’s debut : PHLEGM
2-down – Running water, after turning brown, becomes a green issue : NATURE
3-down – Claims to have turned up mercury in prison : RIGHTS
4-down – One of the King’s men shaking 10 in the haze : MONARCHIST
6-down – Good man receiving no introduction to Larkin’s foul language : SANSKRIT
7-down – Hard book – Hebrews? – about biblical beast : BEHEMOTH
8-down – Fat pig entered and left : LARBOARD
13-down – Single operations given up – futile : SPOUSELESS
15-down – Comestible goods in the east of France : ESCARGOT
16-down – Do something, being in charge of normal behaviour : PRACTICE
17-down – Poet, born out of time, who’s in the wrong place : ABSENTEE
19-down – Go off right, pursuing clown : FESTER
20-down – Blanching stakes : PALING
21-down – Release information about meat : REVEAL

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22178 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22178 clues and answers were published on Mon 09 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22178 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Show resentment? Not a bit! : BRIDLE
5-across – Catalogue banned at the last minute : TABULATE
9-across – Forget how to take charge : OVERLOOK
10-across – Girl ill-disposed to a Scot : LILIAN
11-across – Sum up the charge : COUNTTHECOST
13-across – A shade depressed : BLUE
14-across – You’re out of spirits when he leaves : EXORCIST
17-across – Springtime, when women may propose : LEAPYEAR
18-across – Go for a jog, taking wrong turn : TROT
20-across – The key to a high state of readiness? : CONCERTPITCH
23-across – Make great effort in race : STRAIN
24-across – It comes in to fight on the other side : OPPOSITE
25-across – We are shortly getting a pack animal of legendary reputation : WEREWOLF
26-across – It holds the lead throughout : PENCIL

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Wandered over casually : ROVE
3-down – Yet such things don’t cost the earth : DIRTCHEAP
4-down – Book a flight : EXODUS
5-down – Reveal what offers kept a reserve : TAKETHEWRAPSOFF
6-down – Note eye-catching gadget for pruning : BILLHOOK
7-down – Shrub I ring up about : LILAC
8-down – Soldering irons start making electronic device : TRANSISTOR
12-down – It’s sad, but courage is needed as a policeman : BLUEBOTTLE
15-down – Understands and wins popularity : CATCHESON
16-down – Attack damages marionette, losing extremities : TEARINTO
19-down – Accelerate promotion : STEPUP
21-down – Engrave a hunting scene? : CHASE
22-down – A case of pin and needles : ETUI

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22176 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22176 clues and answers were published on Fri 06 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22176 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – They help to protect viewers from lewd exhibitions : BLUESPECTACLES
9-across – Conveyance by model trains, perhaps : TRANSIT
10-across – Musical drama by Lawrence found to be effective : OPERATE
11-across – The French greeting on holiday : LEAVE
12-across – An aggregation that is swallowed by eels : CONGERIES
13-across – Excess payment concerning children? : OVERISSUE
14-across – Musical composition man made on one note : RONDO
15-across – County’s quiet anger : SHIRE
17-across – Not how a smoker wants to be superior : MATCHLESS
20-across – Boat made by dismissed aircraft worker : OUTRIGGER
22-across – Take undue advantage of sailor custom : ABUSE
23-across – Anxiety for business : CONCERN
24-across – Reply to composer from town in Bavaria : ANSBACH
25-across – Medical expert that the top brass encourage strongly : GENERALSURGEON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The nerve of Caledonians in drink! : BOTTLEOFSCOTCH
2-down – Ignorant girl gets the goods … : UNAWARE
3-down – … yet misses out when having to apply organisation and method : SYSTEMISE
4-down – Leads astray with awful scene about it, perhaps : ENTICES
5-down – Beat when over the right weight : TROUNCE
6-down – Pancake taken back from coffee percolator area : CREPE
7-down – Artful avoidance of girl is no use : EVASION
8-down – Staff open these, perhaps, on Boxing Day : FEASTOFSTEPHEN
14-down – One who goes over and listens again to Queen : REHEARSER
16-down – Concentrated on getting tin seen about : INTENSE
17-down – Colour, possibly, meant to include silver : MAGENTA
18-down – Sailor is sunbathing in Scottish colours : TARTANS
19-down – Bird not in time to see rival : EMULATE
21-down – One Frenchman’s girl : IRENE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22175 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22175 clues and answers were published on Thu 05 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22175 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Blairite alternative to one year abroad about the spring of 1984? : ORWELLIAN
10-across – Lack of protest makes one grow black : NEGRO
11-across – Weapon with drink at side of top deck : GUNWALE
12-across – Free Trade comes – Blair left party : LIBERAL
13-across – Glasgow saint brings one back to church : ENOCH
14-across – Churchy-sounding ointment partially baked with chips? : BASILICON
16-across – Going to the country? Let Greenline coach drop companion off : GENERALELECTION
19-across – See 12 : DEMOCRATS
21-across – This French student went to Salisbury : CECIL
22-across – See 6 : STEROID
23-across – Speaking at 16 was formerly a 12 ______ : ORATORY
24-across – Number reported by 21 across beady follower : MILLE
25-across – Always fresh work for engineers in flat : EVERGREEN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Daddy could make great strides as a fieldsman – ged it? : LONGLEGGED
2-down – Direction in colour to have associate abroad : TWINTOWN
3-down – Potter initially to remove colour : BLEACH
4-down – See 22 : HIRE
5-down – Villainous relative slain – clues available : UNCLESILAS
6-down – Said to be cross about a supporter that’s kept in charge of drug : ANABOLIC
7-down – Mushroom and some rice on cooker? : AGARIC
8-down – Head 16 : POLL
14-down – Steer nibble around ground with dug-up flowerpots : BILLANDBEN
15-down – Hen as commonly reported on page producing eggs out of team captain? : NONPLAYING
17-down – Nemesis at the ready? : RECKONER
18-down – Sitting pretty, including 23 down : INCLOVER
20-down – Religious person eating last of porridge hasn’t finished breakfast : MUESLI
21-down – New bowler after sixth tackle? Charlie and George upset vicar : CHANGE
22-down – Plant on cliff producing porridge on lease : SAMP
23-down – See 21 : OVER

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

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