Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22188 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22188 clues and answers were published on Fri 20 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22188 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – There’s nothing in between the passenger and the road : THOROUGHFARE
8-across – Woman gets support for surveyor : EVEREST
9-across – I forged alloy in the hearth : FIREDOG
11-across – Business graduate in drag faces old complaint : LUMBAGO
12-across – Subversion lacks its initial impression : EDITION
13-across – The proportion of a square in a South American city : RATIO
14-across – Make a beastly noise before our local resident : NEIGHBOUR
16-across – Susie dies foolishly for a matter of lesser importance : SIDEISSUE
19-across – Merchandise keeps wife smart : SWELL
21-across – Wrongfully in charge? It’s criminal : ILLICIT
23-across – Insect eats fruit for food : ALIMENT
24-across – Goddess gets shrub in a place of torment : GEHENNA
25-across – Disagreement in the German fishing boat : DRIFTER
26-across – One puts words into the mouths of those to be shot : SCREENWRITER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Recluse carries tons of welding material : THERMIT
2-down – Herb loves holding Shakespearean : OREGANO
3-down – Expenditure one invested in unfashionable medals : OUTGOINGS
4-down – Boss endlessly making faux pas : GAFFE
5-down – Supply swimmer taking pot : FURNISH
6-down – Composer’s baton Igor smashed : RODRIGO
7-down – Proper sauce for traditional festivity : WELLDRESSING
10-down – Officers rent shop : GENERALSTORE
15-down – Fast runner tucks into rice cooked for northerner : ICELANDER
17-down – Tory supports change in capital of a Greek island : DELPHIC
18-down – Engineer breaking local’s key? Holy smoke! : INCENSE
19-down – Life cut short in travesty of transportation : SKILIFT
20-down – German aristocrat is English reader : ELECTOR
22-down – Wrench Bob away to keep fit : TRAIN

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22187 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22187 clues and answers were published on Thu 19 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22187 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – 1 down type of fish stick : PIKESTAFF
6-across – Shortly two to three sightless rodents may have us in stitches : COMIC
9-across – Disappointed or ill – terminally, if it’s 12’s? : ASSICKASAPARROT
10-across – It’s capitally struck from 21 : NAIL
11-across – It’s hard to understand a goody getting right into evil behaviour : ABSTRUSE
14-across – Walker on island railway has joined the army : LEGIONARY
15-across – Composer of large variation : ELGAR
16-across – Fool dressed for the cold, say? : MORON
18-across – Vagrant given silk: it’s lymphatically wrong : KINGSEVIL
20-across – Essex men : BASILDON
21-across – 1-0 for the dyeing moments? : ANIL
25-across – Illustrator to come from sale and buy cover for topless old man : AUBREYBEARDSLEY
26-across – Some rice dish to steady the ship : KEDGE
27-across – Senior blues : ROYALNAVY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Homely type of country : PLAIN
2-down – In contact like balls on a gate : KISSING
3-down – Like following like? : SUCH
4-down – Not returning by the main road? : AWAY
5-down – Strike a child – infant – not 1 down : FLAMBOYANT
6-down – Plan to avail oneself again of liqueur : CHARTREUSE
7-down – University city raising food – mutton : MARBURG
8-down – Pet : CATHEDRAL
12-down – French setter keeping various echelons for hotelier Basil : JOHNCLEESE
13-down – Don’t let a lot of Danish money be put among the British: I might grab it : BANKROBBER
14-down – Labour MP gets in: then there’s a shortage of pigment : LAMPBLACK
17-down – Girl with American friend, one may gather : ROSEBUD
19-down – Article in house or pod : VANILLA
22-down – It doesn’t say who wrote the song Keep right on _____ – no, stop here! : LAYBY
23-down – Careful not to turn head, or it’ll go crooked : WARY
24-down – My performance is of a student – at a matinee? : IDOL

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22186 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22186 clues and answers were published on Wed 18 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22186 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Moist and adhesive earth covers miles : CLAMMY
4-across – Show to the table : CABARET
9-across – Not one anti-beer? : INEBRIATE
10-across – Not the First Minister’s crime : ARSON
11-across – Heel’s in the pack : KNAVE
12-across – Local worker’s purpose in trade : BARTENDER
13-across – Defence takes skill with racket : RAMPART
15-across – Not a chant for projection : NOSING
17-across – Observe cutback in growths : POLYPS
19-across – Zealous umpire turns to give out : FERVENT
22-across – Killer’s sad story in Bambi, for example : DESTROYER
24-across – Almost obvious it’s a plate : PATEN
26-across – Some said I omitted dialect! : IDIOM
27-across – Close call sounds natural : TERMINATE
28-across – Speaker heard one with a lisp standing a round : TWEETER
29-across – Military station captures second tyrant : DESPOT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Slag clubs to one who’s joining : CLINKER
2-down – Ring up a date : ARENA
3-down – A charging soldier? : MERCENARY
4-down – V-sign made official? : CHEVRON
5-down – Slow roast is about right : BRAKE
6-down – Place specified in decrees? : RESIDENCE
7-down – ‘Eavy up in the far north : TUNDRA
8-down – Move initially giving scope? : GAMBIT
14-down – Seen in the still of the night? : MOONSHINE
16-down – Old instrument’s gloss masking rising cut : SERAPHINE
18-down – Crooked practitioner’s almost heading for emotional breakdown : SHYSTER
19-down – Pelt rock in rage : FURORE
20-down – Beat man overturning cot : TANGENT
21-down – Notice split is loose : ADRIFT
23-down – Let off standing watch : REMIT
25-down – How to walk the first slope? : TRAMP

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22185 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22185 clues and answers were published on Tue 17 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22185 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – New topic: strange sticks! : UNKNOWN
5-across – See 1 Across : COUNTRY
9-across – Windbreak conceals marshy land in front of church : FENCE
10-across – What Billy Bunter had in cycle cape : ROUNDNESS
11-across – Love poem’s unfinished: to an unpleasant person it’s all too much : OVERSPILL
12-across – Small radiator touching two spokes : RADII
13-across – Bound to keep lady covered in the bathroom? : TILED
15-across – Lorna’s bum’s different and undeveloped : SUBNORMAL
18-across – Nearly retreat, knowing how ugly sisters behave? : HIDEOUSLY
19-across – Boredom for everyone taken in by half-feminine dancing : ENNUI
21-across – Rushes of wind make Augustus join retiring saint : GUSTS
23-across – Flour’s sprinkled round street, which is sad : SORROWFUL
25-across – Inaccuracy is included in note for bully : TERRORISE
26-across – Also-ran won’t start to get closer : LOSER
27-across – Cause of envy and contention, messing up cradle with food pips : APPLEOF
28-across – See 27 Across : DISCORD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – It’s paid in advance, standing on the promenade : UPFRONT
2-down – In the doghouse with Kenneth, Eleanor and the editor : KENNELLED
3-down – Chaps breaking very large signs : OMENS
4-down – Beautiful youth makes cassis run all over the place : NARCISSUS
5-down – Bad-tempered person has twist round top of head : CHURL
6-down – Lightly cooked, so left holding back some wine : UNDERDONE
7-down – Walk, having time to understand : TREAD
8-down – She can’t say ‘No’ : YESGIRL
14-down – Leave out, namely, a single griddle-cake : DROPSCONE
16-down – Partner, by concealing ring, meets objective after Friday : BOYFRIEND
17-down – Statement of inmates altered : MANIFESTO
18-down – Meal had off tailless duck : HIGHTEA
20-down – Discourteous and unhealthy king’s asleep! : ILLBRED
22-down – Drink to hide your excessive sentimentality : SYRUP
23-down – Female suits made up to be formal : STIFF
24-down – Go back, Leslie, with eyes like a flirt! : OGLES

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22184 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22184 clues and answers were published on Mon 16 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22184 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Confines a lot with a little : AMBIT
4-across – Near-brown tan cow : BROWBEAT
8-across – : THEFULLENGLISH
10-across – So thin he’ll rip : RAKEHELL
11-across – Some part in A Doll’s House backed some part in Peer Gynt : ANITRA
12-across – With a tongue of silver or gold in a tailspin : ORATORIAL
15-across – Primitive ode compiled to nettle-rash : UREDO
17-across – Name a chess champion from around Pietermaritzburg : NATAL
18-across – Put out rings when backing a horse : APPALOOSA
19-across – Toothsome cloisonn* : ENAMEL
21-across – Nothing I don’t do for treatment of teeth : ODONTOID
24-across – What one’s good cause seeks? Try gelt found in distribution : LOTTERYFUNDING
25-across – Unpolished silver on staff detail : AGRESTIC
26-across – Paul’s pen-pal getting his oats, say? : TITUS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – PMT, say? This might ease the pangs : AFTERNOONTEA
2-down – See 8 : BREAKFAST
3-down – Grecian urn’s beauty : TRUTH
4-down – One backing the Russian folk : BALALAIKA
5-down – Flower of Normandy or Northumberland : ORNE
6-down – Fluent in double-talk? : BILINGUAL
7-down – A fool and : ASSET
9-down – Foundation of 8 2 dresses Conan Doyle initially, say, in trousers : BACONANDEGGS
13-down – Shell user crawling to lubricate a VW : OILBEETLE
14-down – If placid, one perhaps could be turned to stone : LAPIDIFIC
16-down – One who goes into money possibly comes into it! : ECONOMIST
20-down – Together with a name in the register : ALONG
22-down – Music from the Muses? : NONET
23-down – Revolutionary from the wrong uprising : TROT

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

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