Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22051 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22051 clues and answers were published on Thu 09 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22051 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Notes stammer when speaking to a debt dodger : DEFAULTER
6-across – Painter’s in bilge, we’re told : BOSCH
9-across – Climbs with limbs special to these insects : CLEGS
10-across – Tossed out this sort of clue about sport : AUTOCROSS
11-across – Military unit seeking engagement? Quite the opposite : DETACHMENT
12-across – Sad blow : BLUE
14-across – Not a shoemaker’s tool heard in making clever clogs : KNOWALL
15-across – Honourable, this Roman and others around : ETHICAL
17-across – Falsifier of records given fresh start – and still he cheats : DIDDLER
19-across – Bare all over the head? That’s his hair all over the bed! : SPOONER
20-across – Old writer having ritual drink in retreat : AMOS
22-across – Barrier to free speech? : IMPEDIMENT
25-across – Girl taking first puff without a smoke : PANATELLA
26-across – Slow passage of old ship on lake : LARGO
27-across – Stalky and gannet-like, except for head : REEDY
28-across – Flushed game in partly forested area of London : REDBRIDGE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Chanced getting a hat trick of diamonds : DICED
2-down – Naval unit, heading for Deal, say, makes port : FLEETWOOD
3-down – A club is one place out of order for this type : UNSOCIABLE
4-down – Handicap by turning right and heading back : TRAMMEL
5-down – Put up ally in Queen’s Suite : RETINUE
6-down – Blood money paid in Chicago : BUCK
7-down – That is low – could be lower : SCOWL
8-down – Largely low shelter restyled for this person : HOSTELLER
13-down – One has The Times ordered : CHRONICLER
14-down – Criminal traced to Leatherhead : KIDNAPPER
16-down – Exchanged views? That’s taken for granted! : CONFERRED
18-down – Rover plant : RAMBLER
19-down – Crew member checks mounting fear in different ways : STEWARD
21-down – Animal, one of many in the pound : OUNCE
23-down – Tea, say, lying on pit of stomach : THOLE
24-down – Tarry rope : STAY

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22050 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22050 clues and answers were published on Wed 08 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22050 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Tchaikovsky hero’s individual spirit : ONEGIN
5-across – Call, in poet’s translation, for one with jewelled ear : ETHIOP
8-across – Said solver’s treated amorously, not like Burns’s love : YORKIST
9-across – Put the frighteners on abandoned byre : COWSHED
11-across – The usual runs on banks from investments : STOCKSANDSHARES
12-across – In which pupil appears to flag : IRIS
13-across – Painter given money to turn fish-eater : TINTORETTO
17-across – Not owing a pound, retired into fitted kitchen : INTHEBLACK
18-across – Elemental spirit? : FIRE
20-across – Fish getting mad among non-alcoholic drinks by 4 6, they say : TANGLEWOODTALES
23-across – Poisonous yellow deformed stunted growth, after the Sun : RAGWORT
24-across – Abstraction to go with daylight : ROBBERY
25-across – Italian and German articles in silent flight : GLIDER
26-across – A month on the border produces chaos : MAYHEM

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Traction’s treatment for druggy : NARCOTIST
3-down – Composer’s connection between notes : GLINKA
4-down – Winkle with sodium compared with iodine on top of … : NATHANIEL
5-down – Spanish hero with a line to the Yard? : ELCID
6-down – Goldie embracing the Thunderer for the first part of 26 : HAWTHORN
7-down – Going into the red compared with 17? : OTHER
8-down – Small objects during the last programme with 21 6, they say : YESMINISTER
10-down – Author of computing system, a plaything for even half a TV outfit : DOSTOYEVSKY
14-down – What the spy in the cab said about cat, pig and sheep : TACHOGRAM
15-down – A lake you have drunk – reel with mirth : THIRLMERE
16-down – Factor caused by mirth arising during meals? : FEELCOLD
19-down – Initially short and fat from Australian beer : STUBBY
21-down – Boy goes on batting when uplifted : NIGEL
22-down – See 18 : WATER

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22049 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22049 clues and answers were published on Tue 07 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22049 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Snooped round barrel central to exclusive function : PRIVATEDINNER
10-across – Street cry on Mars? : OLDIRON
11-across – Slags render one coarse : SCORIAE
12-across – Mill-bearing strands? : FLOSS
13-across – Vicar with hairstyle that’s burlesque : CHARIVARI
14-across – Sailor on edge, unable to take any more : ABRIM
16-across – Possibly infectious message passed round at church : CATCHABLE
18-across – Look back on skirt received by Ceres, perhaps : REMINISCE
19-across – Many a musical moderator : CHAIR
20-across – Co-ownership of paper jumper : TIMESHARE
23-across – Compare with boy holding thousand back : LIKEN
24-across – Get round to being pompous : OROTUND
25-across – Trump nets king; North leads: it’s an ideal situation : NIRVANA
26-across – Venice’s leaders take up heresy of shunning the flesh : VEGETARIANISM

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Player/broadcaster in love with endless Mardi Gras : RADIOGRAM
3-down – Man : VIRUS
4-down – Far from dominant mixer : TONIC
5-down – Break up book with gloomy oriental covering : DISMANTLE
6-down – Wandering into Chile in bygone age : NEOLITHIC
7-down – Lady Heath : ERICA
8-down – Fire from Tory Standard – put on a percentage : CONFLAGRATION
9-down – Correct mistake, one in narrow stretch of water : MEDITERRANEAN
15-down – Very small students with copper in the distance : MINISCULE
16-down – One with dire forebodings about oaf and artist : CASSANDRA
17-down – Nefarious ritual made Banquo’s head want substance : BLACKMASS
21-down – Animal of low bearing : MOOSE
22-down – Garden nuisance inducing boredom : ENNUI
23-down – Actress learning name : LOREN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22048 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22048 clues and answers were published on Mon 06 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22048 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Get ready for the Spring : CROUCH
4-across – A service attended by ancient head of Rugby : ARNOLD
9-across – Drink, knock it back as a starter : ASTI
10-across – Slit the envelope; it’s not a private communication : OPENLETTER
11-across – Mum, listen for a change! : SILENT
12-across – Press for a reduction? : DECREASE
13-across – Plea to one to be agreeable and provide financial backing : BEANANGEL
15-across – Mole has something to eat by river : PIER
16-across – Fine stuff for sitting on in Summer! : LAWN
17-across – Rigid line taken by hospital department : STRINGENT
21-across – Travelling after the game : ONSAFARI
22-across – A division of the church : SCHISM
24-across – Hope to stay involved in medical practice : OSTEOPATHY
25-across – Abraham Lincoln, to start with, was murdered : ABEL
26-across – Club for a field athlete : PUTTER
27-across – Fetching follower of the game : GUNDOG

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – I entered dream home – in Spain, suitably enough : CASTILE
2-down – Oil producer under pressure has a heart of stone : OLIVE
3-down – One of the toasts that may be offered with a meal : CROUTON
5-down – Churchgoers guarding priest’s remains : RELICS
6-down – Flying up and down the touchline? : ONTHEWING
7-down – A shelved medical assistant : DRESSER
8-down – No racehorse alive is one! : DEADCERTAINTY
14-down – He provides regular press handouts : NEWSAGENT
16-down – Queues seen on washing days? : LINESUP
18-down – Do you agree? I don’t believe it! : IASKYOU
19-down – It’s intended to encourage laying in a little money : NESTEGG
20-down – Bird in the bull-ring : MAGPIE
23-down – To save is difficult with nothing coming in : HOARD

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22046 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22046 clues and answers were published on Fri 03 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22046 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – The buzz from the pub? : LOCALCALL
10-across – Turn up at college in London for a pound : PULSE
11-across – Not easily disturbed when it leaves fair : EQUABLE
12-across – Seat unfinished in part of curve is antique : ARCHAIC
13-across – Fame record : NOTE
14-across – The prospect: chat mainly in flat : HORIZONTAL
15-across – English politician in match play : TEMPEST
17-across – Dish is hot; it could be addictive : HASHISH
19-across – Vast US rail trips to see painting, sculpture, etc : VISUALARTS
22-across – Move to produce mix in jug : STIR
23-across – Idol far off in America : FLORIDA
24-across – Glut in French Cheddar, say : ENGORGE
26-across – Pair missing from overture produce dodgy performance : ELUDE
27-across – Pelt the unknown dump in retreat : HIDEYHOLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Flue, for example? Certainly no petrol involved : ALTERNATIVEFUEL
2-down – Get used to the cat taking most of blame : ACCUSTOM
3-down – Staff society : CLUB
4-down – Understands fares : MAKESOUT
5-down – Chemical that’s partly chalk – a little soft : ALKALI
6-down – Soup with ices? Unusually plausible but wrong! : SPECIOUS
7-down – Easily influenced by one in the factory : PLIANT
8-down – I get points for writing and drawing : PENCILSHARPENER
16-down – One taking part in the Test : EXAMINEE
17-down – She had to set in order the impetuous ones : HOTHEADS
18-down – Cretin possibly raised doctor by calling on this : INTERCOM
20-down – Governor’s to turn back and avoid going round : SHOGUN
21-down – Invested with this, there’s little interest : APATHY
25-down – Artist’s year in part of India : GOYA

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

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