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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22063 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22063 clues and answers were published on Thu 23 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22063 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Minor member in pub taking it round in disguise : INCOGNITO
6-across – Show contempt for cereal on Sunday : SCORN
9-across – Lord Mayor says detective gets battering in Freetown : DICKWHITTINGTON
10-across – Footprint shows retreat of cat and dog : STEP
11-across – Tart married in church by pier without an end : MINCEPIE
14-across – I keep dressing with audacity, wanting love in the club : SAUCEBOAT
15-across – Make love to a half-sister in the spring : OASIS
16-across – Change the people in the commercial : AMEND
18-across – Dine poorly by hot cooker in the Netherlands : EINDHOVEN
20-across – Place an adder in medicinal liquid : LOCATION
21-across – United Nations party is free : UNDO
25-across – Dame Rebecca riding very good horse in Somerset : WESTONSUPERMARE
26-across – Silence enshrouds upper and lower prison camps : GULAG
27-across – Severe yet devious last night : YESTEREVE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Asian river does not end in dust : INDUS
2-down – French dramatist caught in his water bed on top : COCTEAU
3-down – Leave woman, top and toe, in this dress : GOWN
4-down – Garden flower in a kind of stew, nearly : IRIS
5-down – Open University above criticism for swindling : OUTWITTING
6-down – Oh! Decency’s different with eg New faces : SYNECDOCHE
7-down – Sea animal needing work after a month : OCTOPUS
8-down – An unknown Spooner gets mixed up between two names : NONPERSON
12-down – Wild nut, highly flavoured : HEADSTRONG
13-down – Make 100 and you’ve lost, corrupted with a jealous heart : COVETOUSLY
14-down – Rascal finds Lily among the valuables : SCALLAWAG
17-down – Pardon for former copper touching Sarah : EXCUSAL
19-down – High quality 6 no-trumps made with maturity : VINTAGE
22-down – Plump duck to be seen half done : OBESE
23-down – Tree not lying in bed, though : UPAS
24-down – Easy-going and available for nothing : FREE

This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22062 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22062 clues and answers were published on Wed 22 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22062 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Instigate frolic in gym : PROMPT
5-across – Chosen people get odd mixture of gold and silver : ELECTRUM
9-across – Old man going to youth centre with material for the people : POPULACE
10-across – Plump sprite, backward and certainly not forward : FLESHY
11-across – Thrilling hail storm takes former sailor outside : EXHILARATING
13-across – North African grouse may be found here : MOOR
14-across – Most severe novelist and story teller starts : STERNEST
17-across – Hiccups evidently turned back some explorer : VESPUCCI
18-across – Florida resort without a role for a soprano : MIMI
20-across – Faculty for understanding news : INTELLIGENCE
23-across – Seafood swindle requires private investigator : SCAMPI
24-across – In the morning wild boar is heavenly food : AMBROSIA
25-across – Alienate sergeant in mess : ESTRANGE
26-across – Underworld before Underground alternative : EREBUS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Redevelopment in old town starts civil disorder : RIOT
3-down – Spread out Parmesan, lacking an inferior cheese : MOUSETRAP
4-down – Go round tree that’s meretricious : TRASHY
5-down – Evangelism after presenting a form of immortality : EVERLASTINGFAME
6-down – Compulsory measure for about a month : ENFORCED
7-down – Deal with entertainment paid for by another : TREAT
8-down – Release a part? That’s not generous : UNHANDSOME
12-down – Astronomer given work in nuclear research centre is going round Cambridge University : COPERNICUS
15-down – First anaesthetised individual – absorbing hospital drama : NUMBERONE
16-down – Type of onion ring found in the promised land : SCALLION
19-down – Empower leaderless men on revolutionary island : ENABLE
21-down – Name of man in tree by East River : ELMER
22-down – Some petunias raised by indigenous Japanese people : AINU

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22061 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22061 clues and answers were published on Tue 21 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22061 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Ape one ahead in this party line diversion : FOLLOWMY
9-across – See 7 : LEADER
10-across – Freewheeling fitness if carbon fuel runs out : SELF
11-across – See 10 : SUFFICIENT
12-across – Championship golfers using clubs or bats in here? : BELFRY
14-across – Escapes from the open prisons, say : LEAKAGES
15-across – Such capability restoring Nike”s street cred. O blast! : SECOND
17-across – See 15 : STRIKE
20-across – Random numerals open branch briefly with this? : PERSONAL
22-across – See 20 : NUMBER
23-across – Are they bound to march by the Foyle? : APPRENTICE
24-across – See 22 : BOYS
25-across – But, when entering the ring, one’s from Lesotho : BASUTO
26-across – His career is doubly dangerous : STUNTMAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Unplaced Texan horse out of the melee almost : HOMELESS
2-down – Establishment figure on the staff : CLEF
3-down – Discursive wit restored to the pen : TWISTY
4-down – Like Tichborne’s Orton, one loudly crying out : CLAIMANT
5-down – Plastic aim destroyed the system? Hardly! : CAPITALISM
6-down – Death-defying 13 : SEANCE
8-down – Lock out noisy green woodpecker : YAFFLE
13-down – But does the chattering class come to the point here? : FOCUSGROUP
16-down – Failing to heal bone or scab in such an establishment : NONUNION
18-down – Joe Blogg’s morality? : EVERYMAN
19-down – I’d turn up in Spanish Eyes, they say, for These You Have Loved : OLDIES
21-down – Observing one in a slip up : ESPIAL
22-down – Mole betraying no Scots against us : NAEVUS
24-down – It’s off south-west Scotland: except it’s east : BUTE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22060 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22060 clues and answers were published on Mon 20 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22060 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Give generously when there’s a whip-round? : LASHOUT
8-across – Flier in a flat spin : FANTAIL
10-across – Pot red by mistake – it’s too much! : DETROP
11-across – Lovely girl, outwardly competent : ADORABLE
12-across – It may be produced by carbon monoxide to a degree : COMA
13-across – Newcastle is set round a river – a great seaway : STLAWRENCE
14-across – One regarding the nineties as a thing of the past : CENTENARIAN
19-across – Unwise profession of medical consultant : ILLADVISED
22-across – Single piece of ammunition : UNIT
23-across – Australian capital ship : CANBERRA
24-across – Posers seldom resolved : MODELS
25-across – Legendary bird returns, so it is written, to a Mediterranean isle : CORSICA
26-across – Company of high-fliers : AIRCREW

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Garment paid for on receipt in Massachusetts : CAPECOD
2-down – Want a little time : SHORTAGE
3-down – Liquor to drink up: result – uproar : RUMPUS
4-down – Soldier employed by the navy : MANOFWAR
5-down – New fears about opening the attack : STRAFE
6-down – One point is needed to beat the old club : NIBLICK
9-down – One whose meteoric career is almost over : FALLINGSTAR
15-down – Russian comrade : TOVARICH
16-down – Roman water-carrier : AQUEDUCT
17-down – English queen, one with real potential : ELEANOR
18-down – Produced admitted superiority : YIELDED
20-down – In which the early bird lies awaiting the worm? : AMBUSH
21-down – Murder mother for the estate : DOMAIN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22058 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22058 clues and answers were published on Fri 17 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22058 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Ignore incentive to buy? : DISCOUNT
9-across – Town actor who’s been around a long time : OLDHAM
10-across – Pressure to the north is building : BARN
11-across – Land army hiding blunder if backed by military establishment : TERRAFIRMA
12-across – Pageant’s design : TATTOO
14-across – Incitement to disorder, first to last, in books : EDITIONS
15-across – Queen taken into museum gallery : VERANDA
17-across – Chemical compound providing energy at crucial time : PEPTIDE
20-across – One trying to look clever gets wicket – one at crease out : WISEACRE
22-across – Stops keeping right? : STRAYS
23-across – Study that is occupied by archdeacon with New Testament handy : CONVENIENT
24-across – Fool may want river raked out for this : MOON
25-across – Being left in Paris is awkward : GAUCHE
26-across – Mean lass butchered agent : SALESMAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Salt one had put on bird’s tail : TITANATE
2-down – Deficient, not finishing medical examination? : SCAN
3-down – Children’s book appeal embraced by fair-minded politicians : JUSTSO
4-down – See 3 : STORIES
5-down – Provide local gift : DONATIVE
6-down – I’m strained – tricky to manage : ADMINISTER
7-down – Fish responsible for more than half the food poisoning : SALMON
13-down – China’s difficult problem: corruption : TEASERVICE
16-down – Stop finding storage space for tin or bottle : DECANTER
18-down – Routine established by old interviewer on Radio 4 programme : DAYTODAY
19-down – Let out again to be free : RELEASE
21-down – One may keep close to one’s neighbour in bad weather : ISOBAR
22-down – Light bench : SETTLE
24-down – Congregate in American state briefly : MASS

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

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