Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22200 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22200 clues and answers were published on Fri 04 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22200 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Game suffices for keeping order at home : DOMINOES
9-across – French student issued with name and number : ELEVEN
10-across – French town gets a second look in : AMIENS
11-across – A world of sweets? : ALLSORTS
12-across – Sand in bottle : GRIT
13-across – Squalid sink transformed with a nice bit of disinfectant : DICKENSIAN
15-across – Witty person holding in measure of sound? He’s not witty! : WINDBAG
16-across – Frank Field’s central character in French story! : CANDIDE
18-across – Fool admits nothing to right-wing organisation – a devilish sign? : CLOVENFOOT
19-across – Defeat with tail-ender finally dismissed : ROUT
20-across – Note about marriage guidance counsellors supplied by clergy : PRELATES
22-across – Copper shown by examination to be most clever : CUTEST
23-across – Is male following unhappy perversion? : SADISM
24-across – Being this could mean mum losing energy, just! : MATRONLY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – What may be covered by parts of ITV : COMMERCIALBREAK
2-down – Former dancer not in a televised broadcast : NINETTEDEVALOIS
3-down – What one hopes may win sweepstake is not designed for motoring! : HORSEDRAWN
4-down – Obliquely request to take over from one leading the waltz? : ASKANCE
5-down – Not all of tummy fits in? It could be a warning! : BELL
6-down – Second thoughts about not supporting team that needs helping : RECONSIDERATION
7-down – Former CND enthusiast transformed duller ranters and the leaders of British socialism : BERTRANDRUSSELL
14-down – The foreign wine town showing ability to increase accommodation : ELASTICITY
17-down – Eat ice-cream, swallowing whole : CONSUME
21-down – Office worker’s degrees in abbreviated form? : TEMP

This crossword has in total 24 where 14 are across and 10 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22199 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22199 clues and answers were published on Thu 03 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22199 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Finale: work of college cad had Burns’ quotation : SHOULD
4-across – Not a straight tool? : CHISEL
9-across – See 1 : OLDACQUAINTANCE
10-across – Hot iron available? Come out! : STRIKE
11-across – See 1 : BEFORGOT
12-across – A lot of memories? Some of them get by in 21 : MEGABYTE
14-across – Joint consumed by diplomat : LEGATE
15-across – Quantity of human milk taken in context : ACUPOF
18-across – See 15 : KINDNESS
21-across – Fascinate, not being way out : ENTRANCE
22-across – Mother to Hamlet backed by bacchante : MAENAD
24-across – Words of finale range so fully and extravagantly : FORAULDLANGSYNE
25-across – Letter opener between 24 and 24 : MYDEAR
26-across – Spiral without its head, but with its heart, would turn gold : ELIXIR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Barrister to level scores by elegant item of dress : SILKTIE
2-down – Authorisation for a relation ? of the giraffe : OKAPI
3-down – Brains needed in fuel production next year to turn coal to oil? : LIQUEFY
5-down – Big and naughty baby? : HANDFUL
6-down – Orangeade’s drunk : SEADRAGON
7-down – Reverse of 10 making TUC look uncomfortable? : LOCKOUT
8-down – Play with water as a dilettante? : DABBLE
13-down – Sign for and accept a morning by the beach? : AMPERSAND
16-down – See how they run and go with the flow? : CONFORM
17-down – Lowland measure for a girl’s name : FENELLA
18-down – Qualification for feeling Len should go in as new opener : KEENLY
19-down – So-called lion-man comes adrift : NOMINAL
20-down – It helps to reproduce, with science, the dead queen’s signature : SCANNER
23-down – Being an unknown man that’s become nouveau riche? : ESSEX

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22198 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22198 clues and answers were published on Wed 02 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22198 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Quiet church out East is run-down : SHABBY
4-across – Excellent fruit year : PEACHY
9-across – Opposing article backing Information Technology : ANTI
10-across – At work, hooter is kept to it : GRINDSTONE
11-across – One in opposition with advice saved lot in trouble : DEVILS
12-across – See 11 : ADVOCATE
13-across – The awareness of one sitting in judgement : SENTIENCE
15-across – Light sack : FIRE
16-across – Company: one with branches at beginning of millennium : FIRM
17-across – I’m top name in performance at Christmas : PANTOMIME
21-across – Common-or-garden salt : ORDINARY
22-across – See 21 : SEAMAN
24-across – It was shot as part of history : CANNONBALL
25-across – Confidential assistant gives help with start of education : AIDE
26-across – Expand on obscure detail : DILATE
27-across – The lender losing credit is the one to check : EDITOR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Genuine playing area raised in function : SINCERE
2-down – Politician protected by first-class defence : ALIBI
3-down – Refuse to steal a ship before first escaping : BAGASSE
5-down – Chicory is strangely veined : ENDIVE
6-down – An examination involving several questions : CATECHISM
7-down – A river in eg New Zealand – Tay, perhaps? : YANGTZE
8-down – In which a number of months are accounted for : FINANCIALYEAR
14-down – Could be applied to The Twist : TORSIONAL
16-down – Bold footballer : FORWARD
18-down – Engaged in fight against time on American vehicle : TUSSLED
19-down – Traffic light set up to indicate bend : MEANDER
20-down – This attracts good artist around : MAGNET
23-down – The sailor’s a short distance nearer the stern : ABAFT

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22197 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22197 clues and answers were published on Tue 01 May 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22197 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Old Roman’s arousal aboard public transport : BRUTUS
5-across – Officer advises Jones, maybe : TIPSTAFF
9-across – Twisting hair, drinking strong drink and spilling guts : HARAKIRI
10-across – Nothing on the organ is musical : OLIVER
11-across – Enter lead after one lap? : TAKETHESTAGE
13-across – Someone who’s not out for a crust : SCAB
14-across – Give help to foreigners, being discreet about it : SUBTITLE
17-across – An estaminet in need of a foyer : ANTEROOM
18-across – Sum of money in Shetland, perhaps : PONY
20-across – Type of feline, canine, snake or hawk? : SABRERATTLER
23-across – Secure immediate victory with blow : WINNOW
24-across – In I go to the unknown – it’s an outrage! : INIQUITY
25-across – Game of golf – par eight, initially : LEAPFROG
26-across – Greeny issue? : ENERGY

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Get your dessert, they say – some more apple pie? : REAP
3-down – Docile bear raised on board : TRACTABLE
4-down – Love up in heaven is sexy : SLINKY
5-down – Entering middle age with right money this time? Wrong! : THIRTYSOMETHING
6-down – Little difficulties absorbing clergyman uplifted by piece of scripture : PROVERBS
7-down – Smear of snot : TAINT
8-down – Immature type finds something outstanding in a burst of hedonism : FLEDGELING
12-down – View painter’s opening exhibition with shock : SCANDALISE
15-down – A Parisian follows, meaning to be a nuisance : IMPORTUNE
16-down – Shady nook concealing old bishop’s debtor : BORROWER
19-down – Fish for compiler in situ : PLAICE
21-down – Incur preliminary stages : RUNUP
22-down – Weapons turned on men only : STAG

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22196 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22196 clues and answers were published on Mon 30 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22196 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – A pointless contest for the loser : LOVEGAME
9-across – Fur returned to the French firm : OCELOT
10-across – A spinner at his peak? : ATOP
11-across – Bob’s producer : BELLRINGER
12-across – Joint holder : SKEWER
14-across – Two cutlets at once, please : CHOPCHOP
15-across – It’s sweet, I notice, and round : ANISEED
17-across – Cockney thief may end up in hot water : TEALEAF
20-across – The lanes winding round an isolated British settlement : STHELENA
22-across – Show where traffic goes round : CIRCUS
23-across – A drop in the ocean : SPLASHDOWN
24-across – Scored a point – could be winning : CUTE
25-across – Improved a carving with direction : CAMEON
26-across – They cut teeth : CHOPPERS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Hide from the kids : GOATSKIN
2-down – Sea bass : DEEP
3-down – Gas poker : JABBER
4-down – Substitute one fabric with another : REPLACE
5-down – A game that involves more of us : FOURSOME
6-down – Informal speech : VERNACULAR
7-down – Give up because of one’s self-image? : FOREGO
13-down – Appears wet, perhaps, but may be recycled : WASTEPAPER
16-down – The plane might be a Jumbo : ELEPHANT
18-down – Lieutenant embraced by Audrey involved in extramarital affair : ADULTERY
19-down – Island’s chief accountant : MAJORCA
21-down – Capital investment that involves work : TOPHAT
22-down – Clergyman taking a point to heart may be fired : CANNON
24-down – Service dress : COPE

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

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