Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22212 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22212 clues and answers were published on Fri 18 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22212 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – To begin, pass direct : FIRSTHAND
6-across – Note disturbance on line indicates a potential threat : GROWL
9-across – Paste diamond’s lost its stone in the river : RHINE
10-across – Principal’s fancy woman has an advantage : HEADSTART
11-across – Law-giver left nothing inside for the bloodsuckers : MOSQUITOES
12-across – Manx lockers? : KEYS
14-across – Wine, brunch – a blissful setting : CHABLIS
15-across – Companion in play about currency : DRACHMA
17-across – Most of the globe is dependent on cocaine : OCEANIC
19-across – Many coming in, went out all agog : EXCITED
20-across – Window decoration? : SASH
22-across – Made to toe the line by firm head : STRICTNESS
25-across – Represent how energy ratio is in book : EPITOMISE
26-across – Wet health establishment? : HYDRO
27-across – Deal with the present : TREAT
28-across – Theodore, at times, given to holding a different opinion : HETERODOX

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – RAF officer comes over queer at meeting : FORUM
2-down – Return to former position – a check, say : REINSTATE
3-down – Kind of embarrassment that makes one girl cut loose : TOECURLING
4-down – He’s a cat that’s turned out to be a faithful friend : ACHATES
5-down – Late finish is an obstacle : DEADEND
6-down – With the last one you’ve had it : GASP
7-down – Jack turns up during Old English lecture : ORATE
8-down – Layabouts’ dream country : LOTUSLAND
13-down – Renegade baseball player may be a professional killer : RATCATCHER
14-down – Boasts of short-distance lines : CROWSFEET
16-down – Rash to have weeded round the notice : HOTHEADED
18-down – Ready to admit non-drinker I found rather spiteful : CATTISH
19-down – Endless eventide could be clear as daylight : EVIDENT
21-down – Jam that’s appropriate : SEIZE
23-down – Hear the girl is an Amerindian : SIOUX
24-down – Little woman and officer get a shock : 1O1T

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22211 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22211 clues and answers were published on Thu 17 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22211 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Boating clothes in Durham? : RIVERWEAR
10-across – Lover needs capital as well as love : ROMEO
11-across – Impressionist goes to poll with drunkard : MORISOT
12-across – Blue : ONECLUB
13-across – ‘Ave no one perceive one’s thought : IDEA
14-across – Raptor without wavering asks me to show in 18’s clue : KISSMEKATE
15-across – This is misplaced among the undoubted: it’s just a guess : SURMISE
17-across – Curtailment of a nice day shortly before becoming diabolical : SATANIC
19-across – Theology turning prophet’s heart, five times a dozen : THREESCORE
22-across – Live doctor’s rounds : AMMO
23-across – Standard party attended by Lily : LABARUM
24-across – Counter-tenors in bed with bird? : COALTIT
26-across – See 4 : STORY
27-across – Unable to swallow half psychology – a dig at 6s and 7s : DYSPHAGIC

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – All through change of form, trees need time to keep going : FROMFIRSTTOLAST
2-down – Catch what was said of Americans in Britain : OVERHEAR
3-down – The Queen’s circle’s in the Circus : EROS
4-down – Leading Conservative is briefly among the moderate ones with former date for show from 10 and partner : WESTSIDE
5-down – Slips are awful things – don’t start! : ERRORS
6-down – Franco-German cheese gala taking minimum time : BRIEFEST
7-down – Mrs Marcos says she isn’t so young : IMELDA
8-down – Puzzles with answers running 1 of lines and broad Scots clue I must solve : DOUBLEACROSTICS
16-down – Puzzler says he is wandering: find them in the fridge : ICETRAYS
17-down – Boys from here came from the 21 of 5, according to copper in Sayers’ novel : SYRACUSE
18-down – Spooner’s domesticated shrews aren’t wild horses with labels : NAMETAGS
20-down – Bone, most of which is thin : RIBBON
21-down – Buffalo Bill keeping me for fun : COMEDY
25-down – A cast beyond the pale? : ASHY

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22210 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22210 clues and answers were published on Wed 16 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22210 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Two Good Friday participants against a scheme for peace? : EIRENICON
10-across – Tempestuous character – one found in Lear, perhaps : ARIEL
11-across – Like Britain’s past glory without a hazard : IMPERIL
12-across – Piano serves to transform the office : VESPERS
13-across – Girl from classical Greece : LASS
14-across – General service footwear : WELLINGTON
16-across – Screw holds a number in bird : TURNKEY
17-across – A palm may be, as in cupidity : GREASED
19-across – Offers to play lovers’ tune : VOLUNTEERS
22-across – Dunkirk began fightback from a no-win situation : DRAW
24-across – Outre student found in bed, the worse for drink : BOTTLED
25-across – Calls in question politician using spin : IMPUGNS
26-across – There’s many a drop down here : DRAIN
27-across – Charge for a snog with a bird? : SPOONBILL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A joint is essential when backing English group diet : LEGISLATIVEBODY
2-down – One moves, but it could be sore if lacking support : PROPOSER
3-down – Any king is bound to be cross : ANGRY
4-down – Domain of sly, cruel cook : SCULLERY
5-down – Bernard’s declining to whimper : SNIVEL
6-down – One is apt to be driven : PASSENGER
7-down – Wealthy type gets model to strip : DIVEST
8-down – After dancing in clogs, drinks up and all must go : CLOSINGDOWNSALE
15-down – Scrooge is broke without a couple of bob, or less : SKINFLINT
17-down – Keillor’s defence? : GARRISON
18-down – Al Gore is unlikely to keep concubines : SERAGLIO
20-down – Killing is all the rage! : LETHAL
21-down – He may feel destined to succeed in part : ELDEST
23-down – Odds and ends singularly unappealing to 15 : SPEND

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22209 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22209 clues and answers were published on Tue 15 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22209 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Game soon involved king and queen : SNOOKER
8-across – They bet plate-layers drop dead : PLAYERS
10-across – It goes pear-shaped for self-centred person : EGOIST
11-across – The territory above a taxman’s scope : AIRSPACE
12-across – In Nepal, it’s a sacred language : PALI
13-across – Records found before Ezra : CHRONICLES
14-across – Big names in disarray: I cite rebels : CELEBRITIES
19-across – Where they might bring back the birch? : ARBORETUMS
22-across – Colour: mostly green with a hint of yellow : GREY
23-across – Free kind of house? : DETACHED
24-across – Exercising choice of imitation : ECHOIC
25-across – Slander male trapped in silly lunacy : CALUMNY
26-across – Colours moving slowly around Spain : YELLOWS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Harvester is one of the ravers : ANAGRAM
2-down – One hero in domestic murder : HOMICIDE
3-down – Irishman in charge of Scottish club : CELTIC
4-down – I am almost certainly played : CLARINET
5-down – My subject, Wasting Time, is short-sighted : MYOPIC
6-down – Game played by heartless Greig? : CRICKET
9-down – Lovely parks, places for shy and painted horses : FAIRGROUNDS
15-down – One big in the game, other than Pele : ELEPHANT
16-down – Thin paint : EGGSHELL
17-down – Club magazine : ARSENAL
18-down – Surveys about attitudes : REVIEWS
20-down – In chess, when to swop a queen isn’t clear : OPAQUE
21-down – Set out to marry drunk : STEWED

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22208 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22208 clues and answers were published on Mon 14 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22208 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Employ tea in a bag; it gives time for settlement : HIREPURCHASE
8-across – Modern entrance to old prison : NEWGATE
9-across – Old Egyptian gambling game, its said : PHARAOH
11-across – Article on a crime wave in the country : AMERICA
12-across – Showed respect for an old lady, but insulted a young one : STOODUP
13-across – Good fellow cutting dried grass is quick : HASTY
14-across – No longer in the cast, but in touch : OUTOFPLAY
16-across – Coal seam worked by sailors : MINELAYER
19-across – Sailors are all so perplexed : ATSEA
21-across – Pitch of the roof? : BITUMEN
23-across – Eastern politician bound to be exhausted : EMPTIED
24-across – Spring issue : EMANATE
25-across – Eggs turn into cheers : OVATION
26-across – Therapy for abuse? : ILLTREATMENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Cables from ship to shore : HAWSERS
2-down – The truth about Italy’s reconstruction : REALITY
3-down – Wrongly portrayed as a hunter : PREDATORY
4-down – One knows them to be well-informed : ROPES
5-down – Intercept principal on holiday : HEADOFF
6-down – Con man turns up in disgrace : SCANDAL
7-down – A humble fan to be moved, too deep for words : UNFATHOMABLE
10-down – A comedown, but not a disappointing one : HAPPYLANDING
15-down – Got up and dressed : TURNEDOUT
17-down – Game with two essential elements of tennis : NETBALL
18-down – Beat a doctor in the final : LAMBAST
19-down – Primate swallows vegetables to satisfy hunger, perhaps : APPEASE
20-down – Winter sportsmen take it up : SKILIFT
22-down – Annie celebrates having this other girl in the family : NIECE

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

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