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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22045 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22045 clues and answers were published on Thu 02 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22045 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Muck for not much brass : DIRTCHEAP
6-across – They say the setter’s going to 20 : ISLE
10-across – Make rifts in the loot? : SPOIL
11-across – In which the fare could have been bacon and mash? : HANSOMCAB
12-across – Polish invader of close turned back by Scottish painter : RAEBURN
13-across – Haydn’s first fanfare, a lost work — by Mozart : HAFFNER
14-across – Boast in reservoir with speech of highbrow from eternity? : SUPRATEMPORAL
17-across – Couldn’t one sleep a wink in the poet Thomson’s city? : DREADFULNIGHT
21-across – Georgia’s insured against bitterness : SUGARED
22-across – Initially desirable residence for study of china : DRESDEN
24-across – Gold stirred genius to keep time with saint : AUGUSTINE
25-across – Provide point to joke : EQUIP
26-across – What legislators eat? : DIET
27-across – The matter’s pressing and has come back in force : RESURGENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – What Delilah did to Samson? : DISTRESS
2-down – State how to harden solid form : RHODE
3-down – Worked out the odds of — dash it all — crude being put in barrel : CALCULATEDRISK
4-down – Improve the wretched English Channel no end : ENHANCE
5-down – Hot drink coming: fight! : PUNCHUP
7-down – Support walker on the other side’s ground? : SECONDLEG
8-down – First king of England or Great Britain in upside-down genealogy : EGBERT
9-down – Meeting for discussion by couple reportedly bears fruit : CONFERENCEPEAR
15-down – Teacher of physical education eagerly expected outside : PEDAGOGUE
16-down – Put up with boy or girl and don’t change : STANDPAT
18-down – Less reliable performer: thank God I have gone in : DODGIER
19-down – Strip blue berets, for example : UNDRESS
20-down – See 2 : ISLAND
23-down – Two for the old one : DEUCE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22044 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22044 clues and answers were published on Wed 01 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22044 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Skilful strings play in tennis match : DOUBLESTOPPING
9-across – Unbroken part is healthy : WHOLESOME
10-across – Try to acquire outward skill in slang : ARGOT
11-across – Excerpt from Nazi bible put back in place : IBIZA
12-across – Appropriate length in a driving mechanism : PROPELLER
13-across – Not returning to Italy, perhaps, for key : TONALITY
14-across – Expedition to see sporting body in foreign attire : SAFARI
17-across – Makes financial provision on getting bad news about party : ENDOWS
19-across – Unusually daring, if demeaning : INFRADIG
22-across – Labourer having the power to act : OPERATIVE
24-across – Is to go back for a drink : PEPSI
25-across – Girl bringing back something worth having : TESSA
26-across – Let client exercise rational powers : INTELLECT
27-across – Cart-horse conducted to stable in theatre : ORCHESTRASTALL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Dejected after plucking birds with one’s teeth? : DOWNINTHEMOUTH
2-down – Ideally perfect note on new piano : UTOPIAN
3-down – Gladly permit to remain uncultivated : LIEFALLOW
4-down – Oliver, for example, getting Ruth to relent : SHOWPITY
5-down – State alternative to Ronay : OREGON
6-down – Tree with flat surface : PLANE
7-down – Boy taking novice a flower : NIGELLA
8-down – Its report should stimulate athletic progress : STARTINGPISTOL
15-down – Citadel producing a harvest on poor soil : ACROPOLIS
16-down – He hopes to make a profit from vines replanted on hill : INVESTOR
18-down – One who straightens furniture : DRESSER
20-down – Hollow tear produced by certain flies : DIPTERA
21-down – Object when time signal is put out for birds : PIPITS
23-down – Confound with a blow : ABASH

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22043 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22043 clues and answers were published on Tue 31 Oct 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22043 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Two kings abducted from military quarters, written about for The Talisman : SCARAB
5-across – Tale-teller is conned, captivated by Henry’s wife : PARDONER
9-across – Gold captured by G-Grace, the swimmer : PORPOISE
10-across – See 13 : CHEESE
11-across – Flinty queen stirred to embrace her husband? Not often! : INFREQUENTLY
13-across – Female Spanish guerrilla, a revolutionary, points to Greek grub : FETA
14-across – Transient sailors, some Viking : FLEETING
17-across – Mary does not take Ecstasy at Oxford : MAGDALEN
18-across – At the double, double-jointed? : CHOP
20-across – Software mogul ending off drinking mixed gins and swearing : BILLINGSGATE
23-across – He’ll take drivers round the course : CADDIE
24-across – Only just beginning to look into each mixture : INCHOATE
25-across – Lunatic intended, say, to get into the act : DEMENTED
26-across – Hard worker first struck the beam : RAFTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – See 18 : CHOP
3-down – For dressing down, tear clothing : REPRIMAND
4-down – Silky underwear? : BRIEFS
5-down – Mental tranquillity, they say, is broken by one’s severe 3 : PIECEOFONESMIND
6-down – Scarlet sports car’s interior to be made good : RECOUPED
7-down – No dictionary included when writing about the theatre : ODEON
8-down – In South Africa, do its inhabitants when climbing talk of the apples and pears? : EASTLONDON
12-down – Top Dutch gallery takes one pace back : DECAPITATE
15-down – For instance, seconds are 3ed : TICKEDOFF
16-down – Ringing the draughtsman? : PLANGENT
19-down – Tale-teller exchanges chapter for small dish : SAUCER
21-down – I head off home : LODGE
22-down – Swelling found as part of a nasty examination : STYE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22042 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22042 clues and answers were published on Mon 30 Oct 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22042 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Attitude struck by quiet social worker about dope : PASSANT
5-across – Rocky English beach : SHINGLE
9-across – Time for doing the ironing? : EVENING
10-across – Note beans are repellent : REPULSE
11-across – A promoter of drink – stout : SUPPORTER
12-across – Relationship established at entering a foreign port : RATIO
13-across – Provokes those supplying information : NARKS
15-across – Noted work of a minister, almost all with a point : PASTORALE
17-across – It’s not a minor change he proposes : NOMINATOR
19-across – Few in single situation have the answer : SOLVE
22-across – Some ancient Briton gained these islands : TONGA
23-across – A woman gets cold on standing : CONSTANCE
25-across – Fish catching old vessel not proceeding in an orderly way : LARKING
26-across – Copper taken in by a little crawler should make check : INSPECT
27-across – Directed trade in essential components : TRAINED
28-across – More colourful, though less experienced : GREENER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Don’t stop persons misbehaving : PRESSON
2-down – The dancer’s plain, right? : STEPPER
3-down – A friend will offer an American private backing within a very short time : AMIGO
4-down – Kitty’s after underwear – a tricky business indeed! : TIGHTSPOT
5-down – A Spaniard admitting running water is more reliable : SURER
6-down – High and mighty rascal with little hesitation incurred debts : IMPERIOUS
7-down – Girl!, scoffed a Greek maid : GALATEA
8-down – Overlooks nothing concerning a blight on the landscape : EYESORE
14-down – Feeling making an onset is called for : SENSATION
16-down – Skinhead running off, moving with some speed : SPRINTING
17-down – Brief message not allowed to include direction : NOTELET
18-down – An underground toiler opposing a goddess : MINERVA
20-down – Learn, maybe, about conservationists – see the light : LANTERN
21-down – The individual certain to make one cross! : ELECTOR
23-down – It’s about those of advanced years being committed to prison : CAGED
24-down – Discrimination shown – but not a lot : TASTE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22040 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22040 clues and answers were published on Fri 27 Oct 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22040 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Cultivate first flexible plant : CLIMBER
5-across – Strange isle is a part of Europe : SILESIA
9-across – Your old backer keeps tab for main racer : YACHT
10-across – Spot to spot? : VIEWPOINT
11-across – Jerry’s antics? : TOMFOOLERY
12-across – Try writing about pollution : SMOG
14-across – Home-life to be outside from now on : HEREINAFTER
18-across – Fell into line without whip being involved : COMPLICATED
21-across – Noble’s almost topped and tailed : EARL
22-across – Rap song and wild flower : SNAPDRAGON
25-across – One cutting a trim figure? : TOPIARIST
26-across – Proclaim a genuine case for representation : IMAGE
27-across – Relation that’s normal fit : PARABLE
28-across – Overhaul female slowcoach : LAGGARD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Wolf’s retiring up to a point : COYOTE
2-down – Like combine’s receptacle for revenue : INCOME
3-down – Hold up by holding forth a flower : BUTTONHOLE
4-down – Confuse scorer : RAVEL
5-down – Blade with large amount of flavour? : SPEARMINT
6-down – Run classical opera houses : LOPE
7-down – End of game on board being with Jack? : SHIPMATE
8-down – Gold also coats gear lifting aircraft : AUTOGIRO
13-down – Defamation gets student sent down for flier : SANDERLING
15-down – Inveigled or enticed in secret : RECONDITE
16-down – Man in check cap : SCREWTOP
17-down – Child catcher’s unseemly : IMPROPER
19-down – Reptile’s one yard from country : IGUANA
20-down – Joint endowment’s a bit mean : INTEND
23-down – Tinted leaf with phosphorus and other things : PETAL
24-down – Clothes to boast about : GARB

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

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