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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22148 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22148 clues and answers were published on Mon 05 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22148 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Gin before opening may let down an actor : TRAPDOOR
9-across – Sounds confused : HUBBUB
10-across – Sappers in control of cavalry : REIN
11-across – Too old for love, but no longer minding : PASTCARING
12-across – These islands provide a free love style : FAEROE
14-across – Removing the sediment from port : DREDGING
15-across – Drama writer barred for the very young : PLAYPEN
17-across – Moving passage from Tristan : TRANSIT
20-across – Hole-in-the-middle mint : BULLSEYE
22-across – Improve one’s bust line? : UPLIFT
23-across – About to be beaten, but don’t turn back! : FACEDEFEAT
24-across – Young bird lacking the knowledge to be fashionable : CHIC
25-across – No big shot in the gunnery world : PELLET
26-across – Grannies making money : EARNINGS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A quick drop for one waiting for opening time : FREEFALL
2-down – A lifetime of bridge : SPAN
3-down – Left in carriage and pair : COUPLE
4-down – Chair or soft settle : PRESIDE
5-down – Summary punishment for a boneheaded listener? : THICKEAR
6-down – Primitive sailor of marked individuality : ABORIGINAL
7-down – Give up and go to bed : TURNIN
13-down – What workers give to the Queen for Palace parties? : ROYALJELLY
16-down – They can get hot weather : ELEMENTS
18-down – Poach refining process : INFRINGE
19-down – Refreshed sheep tear about : RENEWED
21-down – Philosopher passing through American Customs : USAGES
22-down – Recovery vessel to put out first : UPTURN
24-down – Murphy sliced a golf shot : CHIP

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22146 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22146 clues and answers were published on Fri 02 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22146 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Vision of rook in flight : CASTLEINTHEAIR
9-across – Headgear not worn by the Roundheads? : FLATCAP
10-across – Can take girl out in car : CORTINA
11-across – Competitors in narrow lane : ENTRY
12-across – It is eaten from this Paget dish : SPAGHETTI
13-across – Logical as imitation stone? : SCAGLIOLA
14-across – Folding seat is commonly shaky : DICKY
15-across – Frenchman with point to make good : RENEW
17-across – One vet’s staged lockout of cattle : LIVESTOCK
20-across – Police officer who makes a dramatic call : INSPECTOR
22-across – Praise former setback : EXTOL
23-across – He dispossesses oriental conqueror : EVICTOR
24-across – He concentrated on poetry with one awful stigma : IMAGIST
25-across – Negligible amount needed to put hope into dancer, perhaps : DROPINTHEOCEAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – It gives no grounds for certain fees being changed : COFFEESTRAINER
2-down – Has performed star turn in holy writing : SHASTRA
3-down – It might bring boxer or flautist unexpected success : LUCKYBLOW
4-down – Motorway up over ring of thick paint : IMPASTO
5-down – Musical piece about animal wearing strange coat : TOCCATA
6-down – Land on planet : EARTH
7-down – Silly of Intelligence Department when one’s to be back in charge : IDIOTIC
8-down – Perhaps many like self to be hidden from outsiders? : FAMILYSKELETON
14-down – Reckless person’s turn of speed on bad road : DESPERADO
16-down – Less pleasant to set out in flurry of rain : NASTIER
17-down – Alter edited article pertaining to Roman church : LATERAN
18-down – Go away with king in glossy coat : VARNISH
19-down – Not in row following sketch : OUTLINE
21-down – Poets thrown out of bar : ESTOP

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22145 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22145 clues and answers were published on Thu 01 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22145 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – His written grammar was exemplary: spoken, less tasteful : FOWLER
5-across – The Camptown plum puller whose stock has points taken off? : DEHORNER
9-across – Nimrod dished avec vin blanc et champignons : CHASSEUR
10-across – One for sorrow among the chattering classes : MAGPIE
11-across – Cracked Matterhorn with Roman Catholic artillery : TRENCHMORTAR
13-across – Rugby training switched in the country : PERU
14-across – No chicken with turnip? : OLDTIMER
17-across – Carelessly applying make-up and hairstyle : SLAPBANG
18-across – Lister’s work applying oxygen to suppuration : OPUS
20-across – Dressing so flashily no use in new penthouse suite development : UPTOTHENINES
23-across – Meeting one’s fate in Switzerland? O, fate! : CLOTHO
24-across – Herald of St Swithun’s reign might ordain priest for sacrifice : RAINDROP
25-across – Alter ego literally left without memory ?- it’s the drink! : HYDROMEL
26-across – Officer contributing to Dolly Varden”s ignominy : ENSIGN

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Two revolutionaries gamely throwing projectiles from here : OCHE
3-down – Bridge players’ call to judgement? : LASTTRUMP
4-down – Thatcher as Red Queen absorbing energy : REEDER
5-down – One might show contrition for auntie’s bloomers, perhaps, and glee with ITC error : DIRECTORGENERAL
6-down – So with Mom”s apple pie, weed out what makes me mad : HOMEMADE
7-down – He’s OK : ROGER
8-down – Morecambe and Wise, we hear, sag from this blooming characterisation : ERICACEOUS
12-down – Faced paralysis, so possibly left bypass hell without beginning : BELLSPALSY
15-down – Cromwell’s cavalry fell, as it were : IRONSIDES
16-down – Some queue outside here to displace Archimedes? : BATHROOM
19-down – Donkey, for one, bearing trap in Tyneside : ENGINE
21-down – Swimmer more steamed up in Stepney : OTTER
22-down – Chinese family worth £100,000? : TONG

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22144 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22144 clues and answers were published on Wed 28 Feb 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22144 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Writer and teacher have a short day with … with … within the TV family : SIRARTHURCONAN
8-across – See 1 : DOYLE
9-across – See 17 : MORIARTY
11-across – Something wrong with the wax, it’s true : SINCERE
12-across – Time to reach North American beach : DAYTONA
13-across – We want more from Connex trains : EXTRA
15-across – TGV’s way to get through unimpeded : FASTTRACK
17-across – Rave containing river of petrol, right sequel to memento of 27’s enemy : PROFESSOR
20-across – The land of Italy losing the sun towards evening? : LATER
21-across – Two letters home to be knocked down? : NINEPIN
23-across – Capital sounds near to comedian George : NAIROBI
25-across – Everybody up and going all the way : FULLTERM
26-across – Good start with a little water for cooking : GRILL
27-across – Anthony acting as security for dwellings said to be 18’s : SHERLOCKHOLMES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Desist moving forest as evasive action : SIDESTEPPING
2-down – Light displaying fabric : RAYON
3-down – Dance by first lady at entering, with cause to rise again : REELEVATE
4-down – Call for writing by spirit in person : HIMSELF
5-down – Recipe for love ? embracing journalist behind the altar : REREDOS
6-down – Everything to stay the same, then, in reproduction? : OVARY
7-down – Big traveller like little boy in tension outside : ASTRONAUT
10-down – Sunbathe to remove start of psychological problems surrounding invalid hounded by 1 8 : BASKERVILLES
14-down – May the Thunderer note ‘ow quiet it is! : THORNBUSH
16-down – Elvis in total confusion earns reproof : TALKINGTO
18-down – Ransome characters at the seaside : SANREMO
19-down – Frog and ass, losing tail, went berserk : RANAMOK
22-down – Pearl possibly a shade of white? : PALER
24-down – More musical in order to feed De Quincey? : OPIUM

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22143 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22143 clues and answers were published on Tue 27 Feb 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22143 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Dry, needing a beer badly? Then use your loaf : RYEBREAD
5-across – Young reporter holds her beautiful child : CHERUB
9-across – Amphibian exposes speech hindrance behind centre : BULLFROG
10-across – Poet found in waterless hole : DRYDEN
11-across – After a second, playwright embraces small old maid : SPINSTER
12-across – Mimic joins company at the pier : COPIER
14-across – Crook and son bound to be open all hours, perhaps? : CORNERSHOP
18-across – Ground for growing red oranges, maybe : ROSEGARDEN
22-across – Demon alcohol? : SPIRIT
23-across – Scrupulous person wraps a pound in an adhesive label : STICKLER
24-across – Type nearly all of it, Alice : ITALIC
25-across – Uncontrolled road movement means finally fooling around : SKIDDING
26-across – Restriction of free speech about money is a punishment : GATING
27-across – Pupil in drab jacket, being wrong age to cry : GREYCOAT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Being sturdy, go off to catch the bus : ROBUST
2-down – European Community taking refuge in cake : ECLAIR
3-down – Say no to judge with advantage : REFUSE
4-down – Committee meeting in heaven without dishonesty : ABOVEBOARD
6-down – Whoredom causes Henry to go round a lot : HARLOTRY
7-down – Stop being bloody soft! : REDLIGHT
8-down – Not known in cafe, then put out penniless : BANKRUPT
13-down – Does he give a guarantee when dressed in black? : UNDERTAKER
15-down – Compost getting covered up : DRESSING
16-down – Partisan could be an ambitious person : ASPIRANT
17-down – No 1 tin soldier standing up, firing : IGNITION
19-down – Look for Bill in a lazy way, with sourness : ACIDLY
20-down – White man’s in white robe and in love : ALBINO
21-down – Neither Orville nor Wilbur is wrong, we hear : WRIGHT

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

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