Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22120 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22120 clues and answers were published on Wed 31 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22120 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Hold up the picnic basket : HAMPER
4-across – Aim to put charged particle on circuit : AMBITION
9-across – Down under in Wales : NEATH
10-across – Developing tendril, for example, is tightly curled : RINGLETED
11-across – He takes the stand to get a fair deal, they say : CABDRIVER
12-across – Scrub article written in Gaelic : ERASE
13-across – All choked up? : FULLTHROTTLE
17-across – Power changed Rene into a strong supporter : STRENGTHENER
20-across – Beast is all right and sounds happy : OKAPI
21-across – Monumental barrage put up by Mother with vacuum cleaner in front : HOOVERDAM
23-across – A long way down to get an acceptable drink : AGOODDROP
24-across – Room at the Top showing in Athens : ATTIC
25-across – Collector equipped with buzzer : HONEYBEE
26-across – Dicky admits being in the thick of it : AMIDST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Restraint shown by worker on strike : HANDCUFF
2-down – Food for team replacement at dinner-dance : MEATBALL
3-down – Number three is confused : ETHER
5-down – Young person has it at orgy – upset higher faction : MINORITYGROUP
6-down – In part, time will heal the affliction : ILLHEALTH
7-down – Damaged train at railway terminal where immediate action is required : INTRAY
8-down – Odd inclusion in study set-up – agreed? : NODDED
10-down – Let the other guy pay back the fee : REVERSECHARGE
14-down – Until now a mite shady, possibly, about one : TOTHISDAY
15-down – Not rephrased, tune died out : UNIDITED
16-down – Fussy, cute sort gets the best of the meat : PRIMECUT
18-down – Top-up has modified a chemical compound : POTASH
19-down – A red desert? : MAROON
22-down – Get ready for battle – Marne, maybe : ENARM

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22119 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22119 clues and answers were published on Tue 30 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22119 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Post-conceptual development more by accident : EMBRYO
5-across – Heroic lines newfangled: The c-crew did a bunk, but he nobly held on to the hose : THEBOY
8-across – Bottom employing this spacecraft? : SHUTTLE
9-across – Busy old England? On the contrary : ENGAGED
11-across – Impatience with workers taking strides from a chap? : ANTSINONESPANTS
12-across – See 5 : DECK
13-across – Agent’s message might call quietly for Fonteyn’s comeback : CRYPTOGRAM
17-across – See 5 : THEBURNING
18-across – Twin of the King James Authorised Version : ESAU
20-across – See 5 : ALLBUTHEHADFLED
23-across – Dislodged one caught between, first, mother, then daughter : EVICTED
24-across – See 5 : STOODON
25-across – See 5 : WHENCE
26-across – Where two objects : TITIPU

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Face down : MOUSTACHE
3-down – This outlet sought by three blind mice? : RETAIL
4-down – Put this to intrude with no one reason, perhaps : ONESOARIN
5-down – The setter’s leitmotif : THEME
6-down – Scoop race entrants’ urge to make love : EGGSPOON
7-down – Swelling stops here : ORGAN
8-down – Pay no attention to this order : STANDATEASE
10-down – Underbids me possibly to take a load off : DISEMBURDEN
14-down – Strikes against periodical seat reorganisation : PUNCHESAT
15-down – How the cattle thief prepared dinner? : RUSTLEDUP
16-down – To the French, Gaunt’s rebellion brought such a golden age : AUGUSTAN
19-down – Ingenious how gold turns up in the mine entrance : ADROIT
21-down – Dithmithive polith here? : LEITH
22-down – Bound to lay off : HEDGE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22118 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22118 clues and answers were published on Mon 29 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22118 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Sweet dog Bill Sikes owned : BULLSEYE
9-across – Period for redemption, states article by church : USANCE
10-across – Take off in second gear : SKIT
11-across – Was irresolute, being abandoned and sick at heart : VACILLATED
12-across – Rabble’s downfall : SHOWER
14-across – Recognising gin and tonic ingredients : NOTICING
15-across – It’s usually written to one unable to read it : EPITAPH
17-across – Joined by a sailor – or a parson : SPLICED
20-across – Island off the Needles? : GUERNSEY
22-across – Informally visit doctor at home about a small operation : DROPIN
23-across – Flora vetoing tea break : VEGETATION
24-across – When corruption is about, I show no respect for authority : RIOT
25-across – Spring back after being fired : RECOIL
26-across – Peace-making counsel is put at risk : ENDANGER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Marine store in Hong Kong? : JUNKSHOP
2-down – Flier without a single chart : PLOT
3-down – We maintain a craftsman : WEAVER
4-down – Sport enclosure : FENCING
5-down – The mark of a finished writer? : FULLSTOP
6-down – Charmian so upset – a drink is needed : MARASCHINO
7-down – Hide or show : SCREEN
13-down – Warn omelet is off, but may still be eaten : WATERMELON
16-down – Fair examinations should be! : PASSABLE
18-down – Growth of conciliation overturned by workers – a bad sign : EVILOMEN
19-down – How schoolboys are punished and journalists recognised? : BYLINES
21-down – Rough? That’s odd : UNEVEN
22-down – Complete exposure of corruption in Dundee : DENUDE
24-down – Small pig has nose tip embedded in furrow : RUNT

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22116 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22116 clues and answers were published on Fri 26 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22116 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Books about Joyce’s first working title : TOMJONES
9-across – Litter no guy disturbed : YOUNG
10-across – Unpredictable woman’s formula includes nitrogen : MINX
11-across – Victoria perhaps beheaded after rejecting cure for wind : ERUCTATION
12-across – Strike for unlimited food : BUFFET
14-across – Journalist’s banger : REPORTER
15-across – Steady return covering unhealthy man : NEVILLE
17-across – Jocular desire to admit a horse, say : WAGGISH
20-across – Case of the second date : STAKEOUT
22-across – Noble bird went ahead : TITLED
23-across – Bridge team that’s in switched-off state – it can’t last : TRANSIENCE
24-across – Stick up for bird : COCK
25-across – Takes off bunged-up sounding aristocrats? : DOFFS
26-across – Pollsters flanked by a dexter and a sinister : ARMORIAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The Loneliness of the Outside Left : SOLITUDE
2-down – Greek warrior provides a vote for German 10 : AJAX
3-down – Determined to exclude religious education from the web? : INTENT
4-down – Dialect that comes from the mouth : ESTUARY
5-down – Pay it and sod off to Brave New World, say : DYSTOPIA
6-down – Absolutely wet? : QUITERIGHT
7-down – Don’t look at topless women in Rimini! : IGNORE
13-down – Film script’s material turning on iron weapon : FLICKKNIFE
16-down – Superlatively dizzy, dishes in the dosh : LOOPIEST
18-down – Code-breaking in stately home’s inner shell : SEEDCOAT
19-down – Laurel’s wreathing South Africa’s poetry : STANZAS
21-down – Artist featuring in current polemical outburst : TIRADE
22-down – Woman volunteers to take control : THELMA
24-down – Man upended to produce glazed effect : CIRE

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22115 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22115 clues and answers were published on Thu 25 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22115 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Running for the job : OPERATION
10-across – Brave writer of Jude the Obscure : HARDY
11-across – Small child to be returning with silver for shopping trip : TOTEBAG
12-across – I’m worthless, so I belong all over the place : IGNOBLE
13-across – Edward joins the Royal Academy to be admired : RATED
14-across – Mysterious clue and a hint that’s wrong : UNETHICAL
16-across – Money gets chopped terrine always for a dog : GOLDENRETRIEVER
19-across – Those like yourselves initially absorbing a reprimand with a wet face : TEARFULLY
21-across – Roll lists Bachelor of Arts before returning member : BAGEL
22-across – Told tales knocking back draught Spanish wine : SANGRIA
23-across – Sentimental Matilda has wrinkle with its end not showing : MAUDLIN
24-across – Runny mud brings forth small citrus tree : SLIME
25-across – Paul Robeson sang of this dreamy surgeon : LAZYBONES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Frank’s found just below Scottish river : FORTHRIGHT
2-down – Wild duck swallows English dram, if dry : TEETOTAL
3-down – Type of wire makes a lump on the divan : BARBED
4-down – Phone the joiner : RING
5-down – Second-hand cylinder could be repaired with it : INDIRECTLY
6-down – What makes you sing Ha! Ha! in China? : SHANGHAI
7-down – Language spoken by CIA outside boozer when travelling north : ARABIC
8-down – Some pretty person might do so in the office : TYPE
14-down – Powerless to hold keepsake endlessly, being fallible : UNRELIABLE
15-down – Snobbery concerning strokes seen in cricket ground : LORDLINESS
17-down – Imposed effectiveness in the end : ENFORCED
18-down – Very large person goes round lake after six, being watchful : VIGILANT
20-down – I need a rambling poem by Virgil : AENEID
21-down – Smears about second-class written descriptions : BLURBS
22-down – Type of window where it gets quiet! : SASH
23-down – Network of hedges and grain by the sound of it : MAZE

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

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