Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22090 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22090 clues and answers were published on Wed 27 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22090 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Postage to be delivered by secret service : GESTAPO
5-across – Grain, or 28 : CHICKEN
10-across – See 5 : FEED
11-across – Welshman with French horn breaks into the old-fashioned number : THREESCORE
12-across – Author wants hedge trimmed : BARRIE
13-across – In which reporters harass and fight? : PRESSBOX
14-across – Plain cream is all you can give : LEVELBEST
16-across – The Arabian Nights number takes time for a 29 : MONET
17-across – Sack the band : STRIP
19-across – Doing 14 for our 17? : STEVEBELL
23-across – Sea battle requires most of warships and one in Florentine river : NAVARINO
24-across – Country doctor leaves, admitting love of French style : ROCOCO
26-across – On the mountains, negotiating summit with oxygen, at the world’s extremities : ANTIPODEAN
27-across – 17 for each 17? : JANE
28-across – 17, though not much to show for it! : PEANUTS
29-across – Craftsman needed to secure craft? : PAINTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Lift victorious day up in lift : ELEVATE
3-down – Soundly munched on a house : TUDOR
4-down – Ingredient of soup, other broth’s flavouring : POTHERB
6-down – Listed at last? : HEELED
7-down – Reportedly, one over the eight wants curry on top of a male 5 : COCKSCOMB
8-down – Award appended to noble appendage : EARLOBE
9-down – Backing arranged, having acted as solicitor : PROPOSITIONED
15-down – Removing hair, arrange into a pile : EPILATION
18-down – Fall in support for student : TRAINEE
20-down – Lynn and Dicky on stage outdoors : VERANDA
21-down – Insects delightful? Not one – that’s right! : LICENCE
22-down – Dress with which I try to get into the groove : RIGOUT
25-down – Acadian preparation of 5, taking about a month : CAJUN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22088 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22088 clues and answers were published on Fri 22 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22088 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Answer to this clue should be clearly stated : PUTACROSS
6-across – The man’s father is said to be an immature person : CHILD
9-across – Candidate’s question paper? : APPLICATIONFORM
10-across – Extremely hot over ridicule : HOOT
11-across – When batting, duck’s broken by boundary drive : AMBITION
14-across – Regarding the veins, say, is putting too much weight on! : OVERLOADS
15-across – For pop concert, book this joint : GIGOT
16-across – Asked about work, little boy flinched : POSED
18-across – Animals’ skins to be treated : STEINBOKS
20-across – Has the shivers about game? That’s a beastly tale : APOLOGUE
21-across – Self-contained number, given backing, immediately succeeding : NEXT
25-across – Mixed team line up at net for quarter final, perhaps : ANTEPENULTIMATE
26-across – Water bird for ever consuming fish? Endlessly! : EIDER
27-across – Record of hours worked for two newspapers, mostly the first : TIMESHEET

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Dish of fruit : PEACH
2-down – Cream and jam will be A1 : TOPHOLE
3-down – Money spinner? : COIN
4-down – Scottish resort where anything goes? : OBAN
5-down – One i/c vessel – tramp is she, perhaps? : SHIPMASTER
6-down – Swindle fellow out of money? : CONTINGENT
7-down – Is this housework decreasing? : IRONING
8-down – One name among party cronies calls the shots : DOMINATES
12-down – Constable’s restraining hold broken by lout : CLODHOPPER
13-down – Knight and queen involved at different stages in endgame : LANSQUENET
14-down – Doctor – paragon he to have established such an institution : ORPHANAGE
17-down – Dismissed, having carried on strike called : SHOUTED
19-down – Being too old, mean to have leader replaced : OVERAGE
22-down – The newspaper’s job : THEFT
23-down – Fruit that’s fleshy for the most part : PLUM
24-down – A slip of a girl : MISS

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22087 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22087 clues and answers were published on Thu 21 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22087 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Objection to hospital bill about cleaning equipment : BATHTUB
5-across – Volatile dictator forgetting one-time head supplier : CAROTID
9-across – Stop at nothing : COUNTDOWN
10-across – Refuse to bed down around king : DROSS
11-across – Push lacking force is uncovered : NUDE
12-across – Nothing judicious takes time to be apparent : OSTENSIBLE
14-across – Shore split by river opening : BREACH
15-across – Wild flower without name : VIOLENT
16-across – Amerindians step on ice : CHOCTAW
18-across – First the Left may finally score : TWENTY
20-across – Instrument performed with dire effect in schmaltz : DIDGERIDOO
21-across – Neat stall to copy : CRIB
24-across – South in remedy for a 9 in Scotland : CURSE
25-across – First two of 2’s clue second : TWINKLING
26-across – Baby gear’s still needed in the wee hours : LAYETTE
27-across – Forcing an entry into hiding place : TANNERY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – It can be brought home and saved : BACON
2-down – Loudly denounce the most subordinate : THUNDER
3-down – Child-bearing system that’s for the better : TOTE
4-down – Buffalo Bill show, The West, goes public : BLOWSTHEWHISTLE
5-down – One into talking exchanges vs one into making no changes : CONSERVATIONIST
6-down – Find out second time colour is spread : REDISCOVER
7-down – Three times English going for French – where’s the problem? : TROUBLE
8-down – Sweet twisted in strands : DESSERT
13-down – Fighting men taking first defensive measure : BATTLEMENT
16-down – Will extra detectives turn up in wind? : CODICIL
17-down – Arranged for hospital worker : ORDERLY
19-down – Crawler said to designate power : TERMITE
22-down – Purchase involving delivery of horse and carriage : BUGGY
23-down – Peel’s trick : SKIN

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22086 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22086 clues and answers were published on Wed 20 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22086 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Prestige of cat having swallowed half the cheese : CACHET
4-across – Bones, not leeks, cooked : SKELETON
9-across – I’m awkward – and in record time : INEPT
10-across – Tatty cabin connected with a lot of plant study : BOTANICAL
11-across – Gregarious prisoners? : CHAINGANG
12-across – Golfer tucked into offal doubtfully : FALDO
13-across – Naughtiness in bed is remedied with codeine : DISOBEDIENCE
17-across – Smoothing bodice and skirt for formal wear : EVENINGDRESS
20-across – Exposed headless pigeon : OUTER
21-across – US writer moved round on her what? : HAWTHORNE
23-across – Panel smash dry jar with gun : GRANDJURY
24-across – Award for Ulysses : GRANT
25-across – He makes an offer more loving and gentle : TENDERER
26-across – Folk-tale preserved, for example, in advance : LEGEND

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Agree to give money to the party, we hear : COINCIDE
2-down – Crack about investor sent back to the Home Counties : CREVASSE
3-down – Each depleted football team wasted away : EATEN
5-down – Illustrator redraws Yankee with a wet rag : KATEGREENAWAY
6-down – Dismal as a crocodile? : LONGFACED
7-down – Try Calvin Klein tops made in yarn : TACKLE
8-down – Lady Hamilton’s hold? : NELSON
10-down – For residents getting on socks outside university : BOARDINGHOUSE
14-down – Noted economist, a lady, cuts into card-game : BEVERIDGE
15-down – Remove excess fat from a salmon’s head in class : DEGREASE
16-down – A lock-up Edward maintained : ASSERTED
18-down – Procured branch on treetop : BOUGHT
19-down – Separate tax : STRAIN
22-down – Tory politician keeps silver in the shade : HAGUE

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22085 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22085 clues and answers were published on Tue 19 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22085 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Prosecuting officer and copper brought into service in capital city : DAMASCUS
5-across – Villain, twisted inside, about to become a sailor : LASCAR
9-across – Poles separated? There’s clue in that! : ANTIPODES
11-across – Semi-star seen in leaf of climbing plant : BETEL
12-across – French writer makes rural dean, MA, frightfully cross : ANDREMALRAUX
15-across – What that enemy harbours? : HATE
16-across – Club being given new temporary accommodation makes one unhappy : DISCONTENT
18-across – Jovial ruler has first spin in charge : ROLLICKING
19-across – Dissolute type with nothing to gain? : WINO
21-across – Man, long quiet, getting drunk and boastful : MAGNILOQUENT
24-across – Instruction prescribing -ize brings a rumpus : NOISE
25-across – The missus doubly offering support in bed : DUTCHWIFE
26-across – Unreliable date, yes? Not ‘e! : STEADY
27-across – Decorate set of holy books with gold title at front : ORNAMENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Adult, on the outside mostly adroit, is handicapped in some way : DEAF
2-down – Flier given sort of test on helicopter initially : MOTH
3-down – Not prone to be among students up in English : SUPINE
4-down – Exploit admitted by erstwhile England bowler creates drama : UNDERMILKWOOD
6-down – A medic attending university student, six-footer not confined to bed : AMBULANT
7-down – A hundred eat pig cooked in old-time English dish : COTTAGEPIE
8-down – A sign of something wrong in family member? Rest is the answer : RELAXATION
10-down – Rattle cut in half by silicon? : SEMICONDUCTOR
13-down – Some porn he circulated could account for sexual arousal : PHEROMONES
14-down – Tiny POW? May be observed in a cave : STALAGMITE
17-down – Achieved aim to include six in share-out : DIVIDEND
20-down – Three separate articles submitted by woman : ANTHEA
22-down – Knave in a suit and I have brief dance : JIVE
23-down – Relish turning roof of shelter through 90 degrees : ZEST

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

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