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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22069 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22069 clues and answers were published on Thu 30 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22069 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Unfortunately, Iris faced having skin punctured : SCARIFIED
10-across – Almost half 9 rash infects one heartless writer : OSCAR
11-across – Leader of performers longed to see cast : PITCHED
12-across – 10 21’s alter ego, a six-footer, protecting tree : MELMOTH
13-across – Get to know king and knight : LEARN
14-across – Matter-of-fact British leader with a twitch accepts ridicule : PRAGMATIC
16-across – Will the mug taking poison lose life or has spa treatment revealed 10 21’s supposed last words? : THISWALLPAPERIS
19-across – See 16 : KILLINGME
21-across – See 10 : WILDE
22-across – See 16 : ONEOFUS
23-across – See 16 : HASTOGO
24-across – Murderer keeps right of way mark : CAIRN
25-across – Elite bout unlikely in dungeon : OUBLIETTE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – OK, I spotlit muddle in Old German scheme : OSTPOLITIK
2-down – One supports old meat supplier for beef : PASTRAMI
3-down – Companion introduced to the right kind of plant : LICHEN
4-down – Stopped working and fixed when touring Spain : DIED
5-down – Water swallowed very quietly in the throat : ADAMSAPPLE
6-down – Trollop helping to capture unknown Frenchman : DOLLYMOP
7-down – Portray a Tory publicist : ACTOUT
8-down – Major Russian port loses financial backer : ARCH
14-down – Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element : PHLOGISTON
15-down – Cooked sloes and cedar nuts : CASSEROLED
17-down – Endlessly rap fellows in squadrons for producing odours : WHIFFING
18-down – Abroad in posh car or public launches : ROLLOUTS
20-down – Tell a story to eminent scientist : LIEBIG
21-down – Aeronautical term to pick up about wood : WASHIN
22-down – Sea creature on show in Windsor Castle : ORCA
23-down – Goddess makes man survive : HEBE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22068 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22068 clues and answers were published on Wed 29 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22068 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – It’s nationalised, as everyone knows : PUBLIC
4-across – It’s not the French weapon that will get you in : PASSWORD
9-across – Gumption to the English is futile : NOUSE
10-across – Tricorn may be knocked into : COCKEDHAT
11-across – Schubert’s work distant by a mile – fishy business : TROUTFARM
12-across – It signifies time with stress : TENSE
13-across – Managing directors on vintage car : RUNNINGBOARD
17-across – Militaristic slogan of dandy with dog by the fire? : BLOODANDIRON
20-across – Group in music, etc to regroup : OCTET
21-across – Greeting the jewel that came down from heaven : HAILSTONE
23-across – Should there be a profit … I beg your pardon? : COMEAGAIN
24-across – Chess expert to be found in lodge : GRAND
25-across – See 1 : PROPERTY
26-across – See 24 : MASTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Joke on cruet being upset in flat : PUNCTURE
2-down – Reticent, fight with heavyweight having been telescoped : BOUTONNE
3-down – I find the majority of the planet silly : INEPT
5-down – See 6 : ACCOMMODATION
6-down – Covered loan with warden : SHELTERED
7-down – Where fingers are available : ONHAND
8-down – The royal princess starts to vacillate : DITHER
10-down – Clue to earth producing second thoughts? : CHANGEOFHEART
14-down – I’m going to a tantalising person to be made uncomfortable : ILLATEASE
15-down – Go back into being out-and-out haughty : ARROGANT
16-down – Produce one that will stop reducing the language? : ENGENDER
18-down – Financial restrictions on the proletariat are old hat : MOBCAP
19-down – Say to the Post Office what was said to the Guards as fast as before : ATEMPO
22-down – Brand without the T that comes before it : SIGMA

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22067 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22067 clues and answers were published on Tue 28 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22067 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Beef embargo on opening English plant : COWBANE
5-across – Aircraft may be carrying one map : BIPLANE
9-across – Music performance by Felix in knitted coat : TOCCATA
10-across – Keeping one in parental affection : STORAGE
11-across – Flower of Perdition – point made by an archbishop : HELLEBORE
12-across – Race of mercenary Anglo-Saxons : ARYAN
13-across – Atkinson on war training : ROWAN
15-across – A party bloomer – providing mineral! : ALABASTER
17-across – Taking a gorgeous creature to love retreat is cheating : DISHONEST
19-across – Disabled without one, turn to a modern mode of communication : EMAIL
22-across – Like the bilge in a Shaw play? : AWASH
23-across – Selection starts with freezing out of Livingstone, making you want to throw up : SICKENING
25-across – He sells last lot included for development : REALTOR
26-across – Love racing for a change – that’s life! : ORGANIC
27-across – Humble dwelling following fashion – no ostentation : MODESTY
28-across – Enter failure against article by student out of time : ETERNAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Rye fieldsman? : CATCHER
2-down – Cause of fading light in Ireland? : WICKLOW
3-down – Stone entrance : AGATE
4-down – Unusually able to speak in great detail : ELABORATE
5-down – Count on the piano : BASIE
6-down – Spread 3 on shore : PROPAGATE
7-down – Shrink from the mention of a record collector : ANALYST
8-down – She’s among the lean or spare type : ELEANOR
14-down – Mobile phones, yet recently introduced : NEOPHYTES
16-down – Take choir trip to Jerusalem, perhaps : ARTICHOKE
17-down – Drawing weight needs raising help first : DIAGRAM
18-down – Grant given to Kent for approaching the Channel? : SEAWARD
20-down – Half light in the river where there’s a bridge : AVIGNON
21-down – A soldier in a pub – it stands to reason : LOGICAL
23-down – Stop about right? On the contrary : STRAY
24-down – Bore heard with enthusiasm : EAGRE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22066 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22066 clues and answers were published on Mon 27 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22066 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Not favouring an animal oriental folk chain : CONCATENATION
10-across – Dismantled ship and stole booty : THESPOILS
11-across – Better have the last word with the dunderhead! : AMEND
12-across – The underworld guy’s seen around these days : HADES
13-across – Popular European city church getting down to the basics : INESSENCE
14-across – A place fit only for pigs occupied by exceptionally lean man : STANLEY
16-across – Had in mind a trifle : THOUGHT
18-across – There’s no extension for this little beast! : MANXCAT
20-across – Comes to an agreement over the seating : SETTLES
21-across – A roundabout means of gaining admission : TURNSTILE
23-across – Insist 150 go by train : CLAIM
24-across – Well-qualified persons, really tip-top people : MASAI
25-across – A carer – a wreck, it appears – staying in a health resort : SAMARITAN
26-across – An old bird’s cheaper to X-ray, surprisingly! : ARCHAEOPTERYX

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – In debt yet again and tense as a result : OVERDRAWN
3-down – Holds one’s own ceremonial robes : COPES
4-down – Three altogether attempt to impound it in error : TRINITY
5-down – An uplifting fragrance now in production : NASCENT
6-down – Send a car? : TRANSPORT
7-down – A poem about Greek theatre : ODEON
8-down – Still synchronised : ATTHESAMETIME
9-down – Publicity drive meant set being replaced : ADVERTISEMENT
15-down – A source of amusement to those in love : LOCKSMITH
17-down – The spirit shown by everyone involved in bridge : GALLANTRY
19-down – Examines a note presented in an Italian port : TRIESTE
20-down – Get excited having a drink with the players inside : STEAMUP
22-down – Revolting individual given a step up : RISER
23-down – Showing concern without opposing cut : CARVE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22064 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22064 clues and answers were published on Fri 24 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22064 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Underground sportsmen in Likud upset monkey : DURUKULI
9-across – Protective layer for District and Circle? Vice versa : OZONE
10-across – Old woman about to get rhyming family home : SHOE
11-across – Endure transfer: outside left not returned : UNREQUITED
12-across – Propose to maintain king in health : PROSIT
14-across – Wine and cheese, unopened, to throw away : RIESLING
15-across – 1 9 /150 = gradient : INCLINE
17-across – Speaker about to spoil fishing gear : STENTOR
20-across – Instrument for putting spirit, hot, into excrescence : CRUMHORN
22-across – Obscure compiler’s inconclusive threat : MYSTIC
23-across – Ailment induced by Spooner’s blast on the French horn? : TRENCHFOOT
24-across – Far from cheerful actor, so they say : DOUR
25-across – Deal with rubbish round about : TREAT
26-across – Year in which eastern nation gets young leader, the nation’s backbone : YEOMANRY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Reformed faith ultimately neutral : LUTHERAN
2-down – Aristocrat right to receive monarch : DUKE
3-down – Bend after a blow, though dignified : AUGUST
4-down – Scales line to intellectual storehouse : LIBRARY
5-down – Victory for many aboard the Endeavour : CONQUEST
6-down – Shakespearean bird almost put in jail : CORIOLANUS
7-down – Point in time to an expanse of water : AEGEAN
13-down – Holy man eaten by smoother amphibian : SALAMANDER
16-down – Convert to the Pony Express, initially : NEOPHYTE
18-down – Witchcraft: spinning gold in attempt to get notice, finally : OBITUARY
19-down – Great lover married? Just the opposite : ANTONYM
21-down – Right one in cultured surrounds ã one in a million? : RARITY
22-down – Alternative to dole is cosmic waste : METEOR
24-down – Measure up to the barrel-bearer : DRAY

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

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