Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22224 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22224 clues and answers were published on Fri 01 Jun 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22224 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Unknown murderer pounds away : STRANGER
5-across – Workshop produces ornament I love : STUDIO
9-across – Send from French area : DESPATCH
10-across – Person takes time in lesson : MORTAL
11-across – Exploit Ireland, the composer : COUPERIN
12-across – Officer knowledgeable about token : COUPON
14-across – Backer misses out in America : LOSANGELES
18-across – Cloth samples found in the bathroom : TOILETRIES
22-across – Tell of soldier getting fresh : RELATE
23-across – Indispensable friend has money : MATERIAL
24-across – One meets old secret police chief in Europe : IBERIA
25-across – Colourist keeps recipe in the kitchen : STRAINER
26-across – Wander about to obtain appliance : GADGET
27-across – Fellow annoyin’ scientist : FRANKLIN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Corrupt French noble found in bishopric : SEDUCE
2-down – Drunken squire is off-colour : RISQUE
3-down – Tidy up after knight had a meal : NEATEN
4-down – In a trice, Rosie smashed the desk : ESCRITOIRE
6-down – Utter nothing in-between : THOROUGH
7-down – Time to conceal a fruit producer : DATEPALM
8-down – Ines and Lois developed urbanity : OILINESS
13-down – The man with the estate manager is a villain : MALEFACTOR
15-down – Flier looking round lake : STARLING
16-down – Action about complaints of flavouring : DILLSEED
17-down – Straddle finest horse : BESTRIDE
19-down – Arrest Greek character during commotion : DETAIN
20-down – Wrongly aligns an indicator : SIGNAL
21-down – In favour of taking a pound in coin : FLORIN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22223 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22223 clues and answers were published on Thu 31 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22223 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Divine environment for a crew testing position : PREDICAMENT
9-across – An entry without it causes stir : AGITATE
10-across – The opposite is never wrong : INVERSE
11-across – Place with racing stable : STEADFAST
12-across – Less neat, say : LOWER
13-across – Rings round for flooring : LINO
14-across – Extremely coy about unfortunate penchant for trumpery : CATCHPENNY
16-across – Study twice to fully satisfy the result of becoming thicker : CONDENSATE
19-across – Bird in poor health : RHEA
21-across – Low-down on computers? : BASIC
22-across – Drink among New York’s flowers : MANHATTAN
24-across – Cut around live creature : SHEBEAR
25-across – Former PM’s undisguised triumph : BALDWIN
26-across – Tired out, crazy and harmful : DETRIMENTAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A reward for the taking? : PRICEONONESHEAD
2-down – Antelope bearing light : ELAND
3-down – Former President to outlaw a Japanese art form : IKEBANA
4-down – Oddly, assailant since tells of a continent : ASIATIC
5-down – Break even and run for cover : ENVELOPE
6-down – Possibly how Hitler went to surrender : THROWINTHETOWEL
7-down – Small girl holds fool in thrall : VASSAL
8-down – Give away stake and fish : BETRAY
15-down – Drills the first case : TEACHEST
16-down – Young 24 is first of modern movement : CUBISM
17-down – Lifted spirit like first-class warrior : SAMURAI
18-down – Board admits points can be kept : TENABLE
20-down – Cover when Y-fronts would be wide open : AWNING
23-down – Divide at full speed : ALLOT

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22222 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22222 clues and answers were published on Wed 30 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22222 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Change poles for entry into 11 : TRANSFORM
6-across – That is nearly the date : IDES
10-across – The drink of kings from the right : LAGER
11-across – Desire the way back and the rest will be included : STREETCAR
12-across – Opposed to silver being put in auction – rescue needed : SALVAGE
13-across – Not too far for Grannie, possibly : INRANGE
14-across – Poseur requiring aid? It isn’t true : ATTITUDINISER
17-across – Standard first page has Gore in rupture with the trappings : PARAPHERNALIA
21-across – Advertiser gives his cat a cuckoo : SAATCHI
22-across – 3’s house, one with wind indicator outside : IVANHOE
24-across – Needle covers in the ring? : HAYSTACKS
25-across – Poem to the beautiful Lydia partly returned : IDYLL
26-across – Remarkably pink? : RARE
27-across – Afterwards trust and yours may come first : SINCERELY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – 3’s charm : TALISMAN
2-down – The nurse from hell? : ANGEL
3-down – Writer’s writ’s changed – changes bed inside : SIRWALTERSCOTT
4-down – Farm offices in Scotland sound the opposite of the schools regulator : ONSTEAD
5-down – 3’s girl eating her head : MARMION
7-down – Church official a fairy, reportedly: relax constraint : DECONTROL
8-down – See 18 : STREET
9-down – Agent dealing with gift to take up musical : REPRESENTATIVE
15-down – Superior woodcutter gets a penny for a mile from Twain character : TOPSAWYER
16-down – 3’s station on … : WAVERLEY
18-down – … sewage plant in reproduction : PRINCES
19-down – Old navigator giving coiners trouble : ERICSON
20-down – Waters part for modest heroine : ESTHER
23-down – Astronomy ends in something black, according to this expert : HOYLE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22221 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22221 clues and answers were published on Tue 29 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22221 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

5-across – Memorial to a dental problem : PLAQUE
6-across – Wild card held aloft by composer : DUPARC
9-across – Ass in America leading to American kerfuffle : RUMPUS
10-across – Indoor garden where wrath-filled politician loses head : ORANGERY
11-across – Take-off in second gear : SKIT
12-across – Waspish, it might be, about Geller’s unease? : INSECURITY
13-across – Exchanges lay classes to rest : INTERCOURSE
18-across – Trade cards with one on ship : HANDICRAFT
21-across – Knocks box over : RAPS
22-across – Student’s record that’s keeping back record : DISCIPLE
23-across – Invite approach, running after stream : BECKON
24-across – A jolly girl in the fleet : ARMADA
25-across – Silver rouble accepted by representative : ARGENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Artists apply to notorious preacher : RASPUTIN
2-down – Ileum’s the better for digesting it : MUESLI
3-down – ‘Omo sapiens replaces one in cape, an oriental fiend : FUMANCHU
4-down – Mounted study maintaining Two Gentlemen premieres appeared before Macbeth : DAGGER
5-down – Pioneering leader favoured by fortune, being bold : PLUCKY
7-down – Dog’s dinner was made of the churchman : CURATE
8-down – Holy box in second reincarnation : CONSECRATED
14-down – Hurrying up, grasping point of French adventure : ESCAPADE
15-down – Afflicted three bridge players receiving what they play for : STRICKEN
16-down – Stout holy man, almost a holy woman : FATIMA
17-down – Begin to grow out of stupor : SPROUT
19-down – Make off with bits of deck and amplifier : DECAMP
20-down – Capital raised by Dior’s original tunic : TABARD

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22220 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22220 clues and answers were published on Mon 28 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22220 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Unidentified VIP : SOMEBODY
5-across – Topsy chosen to take part in film : PSYCHO
9-across – Cusp error responsible for omen : PRECURSOR
11-across – Prevent girl having a means of making music : BANJO
12-across – Scheme first ignored in bill for delivery : ACCOUCHEMENT
15-across – Big demand for grass? : RUSH
16-across – Environmental note: heating without reason : ECOLOGICAL
18-across – Something bitter, though grown on the vine? : GRAPEFRUIT
19-across – Opposed to three-toed sloth devouring books : ANTI
21-across – Send out about relative briefly passing through : TRANSMIGRANT
24-across – Get rid of one plate in the river : EXILE
25-across – Associates adopt quiet limp for getting aboard : GANGPLANK
26-across – Guard made ecstatic by the lines : SENTRY
27-across – Out-of-the-way payment embarrassed and rankled : FESTERED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Concessions for soaks? : SOPS
2-down – Look close, say : MIEN
3-down – Bishop gets overweight in spring : BOUNCE
4-down – Unsettling, little girl’s musical instrument lacking a string replacement : DISCONCERTING
6-down – Turning up to board public transport, carrying work unit and sink : SUBMERGE
7-down – Stoop to go down after prisoner : CONDESCEND
8-down – I go a lot and get treatment for toothache : ODONTALGIA
10-down – Objection to client in race car crash : RECALCITRANCE
13-down – Shining example set by clever Head : BRIGHTNESS
14-down – Rapid rise in high spirits – blackleg almost taken in : ESCALATION
17-down – Worn by people on oath : MENSWEAR
20-down – Bit of pink pottery used by writer? : INKPOT
22-down – Piano melody for two : PAIR
23-down – Slide is for poor kids : SKID

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

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