Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22166 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22166 clues and answers were published on Mon 26 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22166 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Blow whistle for a breathing space : WINDPIPE
9-across – Elite type found in newspaper production : EDITOR
10-across – The hollow sound of success in business : BOOM
11-across – Certainly using every available method : BYALLMEANS
12-across – Be able to repeat a vigorous dance : CANCAN
14-across – Dictates new chemistry examination involving litmus paper : ACIDTEST
15-across – Healthy accommodation for a prisoner charged with battery : DRYCELL
17-across – Risk getting left in church : CHANCEL
20-across – Housing for a direction-finder : BINNACLE
22-across – It lives in Madagascar with the agreement of sailors : AYEAYE
23-across – Dutch punter gets over 50% : BETTERHALF
24-across – Small amounts put on horses : BITS
25-across – Out-of-date, like a tricorn for example : OLDHAT
26-across – Vessel manoeuvring in River Tamar : TRIMARAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Extinct animal is around in changed form : DINOSAUR
2-down – Feed a mouse with cheese : EDAM
3-down – Pound is good in France and capital elsewhere : LISBON
4-down – Go on! Holiday! : GETAWAY
5-down – Weigh about two pounds and a quarter, almost : WELLNIGH
6-down – Girl allowed by her aunt in Paris to be a dabbler : DILETTANTE
7-down – They may be smoked and eaten : JOINTS
13-down – One may have a fair throw at it : COCONUTSHY
16-down – Slash material price : LACERATE
18-down – Mummy’s nationality : EGYPTIAN
19-down – They’re out of step and overfussy : PEDANTS
21-down – Ladies in fashion becoming models : IDEALS
22-down – Business concern : AFFAIR
24-down – Harbour transport : BEAR

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22164 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22164 clues and answers were published on Fri 23 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22164 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Newcastle, Liverpool and Derby on longer the country’s leaders : PRIMEMINISTERS
9-across – Very small, like a Swiss banker? : GNOMISH
10-across – One involved with Alison in illicit affair : LIAISON
11-across – Rumour of English poet for listeners : NOISE
12-across – Sound director gives Margaret a ring : MEGAPHONE
13-across – Chime gone off, denoting leadership in the league : HEGEMONIC
14-across – Do church leaders take sustenance? : CHEAT
15-across – Girl revealing male murder victim in book : MABEL
17-across – How the stock ran out all at once? : STAMPEDED
20-across – Collapse of couple on exciting rides : DISREPAIR
22-across – Proportion of allowance reduced : RATIO
23-across – Sluggard told stories about Lincoln : LIEABED
24-across – Remedy for Japanese drama – play idly : NOSTRUM
25-across – Hardy characters do, when leotards become loose : THEWOODLANDERS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Berkshire, perhaps, at the heart of the game : PIGINTHEMIDDLE
2-down – Club in Gateshead, say, for evening out : IRONING
3-down – Descriptive of hideout, we hear : EPIDERMAL
4-down – Brutal article following popular song without words : INHUMAN
5-down – Unsound reasoning, when sick, to go up in charge : ILLOGIC
6-down – Streetcar soft for the bum? : TRAMP
7-down – Fried meat cake king is exclusive : RISSOLE
8-down – Upside down, some butterflies make marks on paper : INVERTEDCOMMAS
14-down – Accountant has capital advanced – something to put on a horse : CAPARISON
16-down – Beg for bit of bread and cheese spread : BESEECH
17-down – Prepare for attack and remain next to openings of tower : STANDTO
18-down – Lad near damage beside the kidneys? : ADRENAL
19-down – Cleanse and check germanium : DETERGE
21-down – Knock run off spin bowler : ELBOW

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22163 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22163 clues and answers were published on Thu 22 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22163 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Old money with rates by 18 6 : EXCHANGE
5-across – Acting A for Alan is subsiding : ABATES
9-across – Many divine voices have little craft : CORACLES
10-across – It’s wrong, according to 18 6, to give apple to genie : EATING
11-across – Going gradually : STEPPING
12-across – Not want a thing? : OBJECT
14-across – 18 6 got his new model army, not turned out : HISTORYMAN
18-across – Literary giant and teacher arranged dumb crambo rally : SIRMALCOLM
22-across – Silver in solver: 18 6 got to 19 in it : THEAGE
23-across – Very cutting, but inviting riposte : TWOEDGED
24-across – See 10 : PEOPLE
25-across – It’s wrong for 18 6’s doctor with English ending : CRIMINAL
26-across – 5’s clue’s not main line : SIDING
27-across – See 11 : WESTWARD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Cover a scene of confusion : ENCASE
2-down – Dog on wheels, red for honoured guest : CARPET
3-down – Take : ACCEPT
4-down – Bird, in French then in Greek, gaining height : GREENFINCH
6-down – See 18 : BRADBURY
7-down – Article taken from experimental novel with three horns? : TRILEMMA
8-down – Observation of model in the course of expressing regret : SIGHTING
13-down – Even more deplorable, slower list must be used : STILLWORSE
15-down – One drunkard starts : ISOTOPES
16-down – No charge for stowing such property as cargo? : FREEHOLD
17-down – Edentate from African country dropping tail into cask : PANGOLIN
19-down – Loner to inherit a thousand : HERMIT
20-down – A good start and finish for a business : AGENDA
21-down – A theologian was the guide, which is bad : ADDLED

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22162 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22162 clues and answers were published on Wed 21 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22162 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Steps up to castles in the air? : FLIGHTOFFANCY
10-across – Statue named after delivery? : LIBERTY
11-across – Swinish dictator with a place in the sun : SUIDIAN
12-across – Returning soldier can arrive at winter quarters : IGLOO
13-across – Licensing measure for bird and fish : ENTITLING
14-across – Take a sound hard look at the size of an egg : GLAIR
16-across – Big Daddy’s old lady? : GRANDMAMA
18-across – In no position to join Labour? : OUTOFWORK
19-across – Cornish member of a body of social workers : SWARM
20-across – Frustrates Kant’s foul disposition : OUTFLANKS
23-across – Call for a pint in the vault : CRYPT
24-across – Spiritual singer appearing in Oberon’s revival : ROBESON
25-across – Hurdles to sobriety in Dylan Thomas’s patch : WATTLES
26-across – Only this part c-converts into a howling convert : LYCANTHROPIST

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Suitor left in ballet movement : LIBELLANT
3-down – She sought solitude in the dress-circle : GARBO
4-down – Season with this season, say : THYME
5-down – Lent dog to show the quick route to advancement : FASTTRACK
6-down – Disaster? I could be the embodiment of Justice : ARISTIDES
7-down – Wind blowing hot and cold, they say : CHILI
8-down – Ecstasy from glory in clues of doubtful distinction : FLYINGCOLOURS
9-down – Character development needs one – a good memory: it’s a failing during the Millennium : ANAGRAMMATISM
15-down – Amateur cracksman takes one: a natural freeloader from the orient : RAFFLESIA
16-down – Reason madman becomes an oil producer : GROUNDNUT
17-down – Stupid sheep taking a rise out of Milton’s sporting shady lady : AMARYLLIS
21-down – Objection raised by Toc H’s Clayton : TUBBY
22-down – One employed in Bayeux’s underground takeaway service : SEWER
23-down – As distressed as Lizzie Borden”s mother? : CUTUP

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22161 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22161 clues and answers were published on Tue 20 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22161 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Back again with golden girl for 18 : ROWENA
4-across – Musician who gives false accounts? : FIDDLER
9-across – Everybody Russian keeps a model 13 : ALLIGATOR
10-across – False turn in the toilets : BOGUS
11-across – Meeting to vex proverbially patient character : TRYST
12-across – Drunk goes for pre-salted nuts : PLASTERED
13-across – Pig’s head in cream – recipe sent back by member of class : REPTILE
15-across – Alien retired, retreating from argument : DEBATE
17-across – Plant from the Eastern Isles : SESELI
19-across – Snake receiving religious instruction from music maker : MARIMBA
22-across – Where to relax with light music after church : EASYCHAIR
24-across – Leaves on equal terms : QUITS
26-across – Cheeky chap on fiddle and piano : SCAMP
27-across – Swiss 18, losing nothing, gets let out : HELVETIAN
28-across – Serious bridge opponents first produce artwork : ENGRAVE
29-across – Shorty goes to Sweden in pain : STITCH

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Churchman securing a supplier of energy : REACTOR
2-down – 25 is a friend to women : WALLY
3-down – Clubbing with Spooner’s scalpel? : NIGHTLIFE
4-down – Saucy striker, perhaps : FORWARD
5-down – Obligation to take turn in first performance : DEBUT
6-down – Power of Maths: record with which member secures unlikely hit : LOGARITHM
7-down – Live with faction pursuing heartless rogue : RESIDE
8-down – Food past its sell-by date contains source of pandemic : STAPLE
14-down – Crash involving ship in, for instance, conscription service : PRESSGANG
16-down – Shed takes on mission as a favour : BYREQUEST
18-down – Russian ruler with garden tool for Scottish hero : IVANHOE
19-down – Spy drinking artist’s spirits : MORALE
20-down – Ban this concoction! : ABSINTH
21-down – Tenant with smaller quantity of drugs : LESSEE
23-down – Elevenses for publishers’ assistant : CUPPA
25-down – Someone intellectually challenged to dot Is, perhaps : IDIOT

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

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