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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22026 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22026 clues and answers were published on Wed 11 Oct 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22026 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Some saline water takes all in its flow : SALTLAKE
9-across – No longer perform backwards, getting us going : EXODUS
10-across – Shakespeare turned round in this flat : DRAB
11-across – Detective has trifle which is entertaining : SHADOWPLAY
12-across – Eager to get some boned geese : ONEDGE
14-across – Approved boundary to go round most of county : ENDORSED
15-across – Wind died initially coming in closer : MEANDER
17-across – Half a buck swells ordinary tax : TRIBUTE
20-across – Term of affection provides warmth : SUNSHINE
22-across – Find me by cathedral city hiding king like a lamb : MEEKLY
23-across – Masseur with group keeps papers together : RUBBERBAND
24-across – President found in road behind Foreign Office : FORD
25-across – Locations where Aphrodite accepts end of love : VENUES
26-across – Wild West practice makes gain and loss : LASSOING

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Author shows little bird dissecting string : LAWRENCE
2-down – Counterfoil reveals rise in objections : STUB
3-down – Girl resorts to fiction about pompous person : LASSIE
4-down – Postponed a song in action : DELAYED
5-down – Yes-man in company breaking a fax, perhaps : SECONDER
6-down – Nearly come to Bible story which is similar : COMPARABLE
7-down – Clergyman is smart to go round the Royal Academy : CURATE
13-down – Cheese one found in bowl going to waste : DANISHBLUE
16-down – Old woman journalist needs it to cut end of blue frock : EDITRESS
18-down – Patient is sadly not alert : TOLERANT
19-down – Joint of meat given to friend properly : LEGALLY
21-down – Bright sun due to revolve : UNUSED
22-down – This hideous female is not amused : MEDUSA
24-down – Male flirt to turn up and gush : FLOW

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22025 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22025 clues and answers were published on Tue 10 Oct 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22025 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Financial restriction on the Mafia covering the Old Lady in the morning : MOBCAP
6-across – Leave covering for creature on the lake : FURLOUGH
9-across – Sound start to 23, a 24 for 22 23 : SHEEPS
10-across – See 9 : CLOTHING
11-across – With competent direction, singing about hell by one in employment can bring good out of evil : ABLESSINGIN
15-across – Head girl comes to tea : CRUMPET
17-across – Don’t start another meal without striking – it’s rude : UNCOUTH
18-across – Golding’s the author capable of prophesy? : LONGSIGHTED
22-across – Bird with broken wing loves dodging hungry predators : RAVENING
23-across – See 22 : WOLVES
24-across – See 11 : DISGUISE
25-across – One follows backbones : STERNA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Undermine plan that’s raised grass : PAMPAS
2-down – Fool, keeping up badly, massages tummy pain : MULLIGRUBS
3-down – Half play a note for love? : PLATONIC
4-down – Bad fit for French gentleman: cast him out! : MISMATCH
5-down – Libel – mud being thrown, by gum! : BDELLIUM
7-down – One of many reported, you idiot! : UNIT
8-down – Chief under the influence : HIGH
12-down – Concentration camping on the loch : INTENTNESS
13-down – Plant genetically modified on September the fourth in transport : CULTIVAR
14-down – Hair wrapped round poems from the old country : RHODESIA
16-down – Game, the first in the Rising Sun, finished behind the arras : POLONIUS
19-down – Painter, soldier and engineer : GIOTTO
20-down – Reminder of p-punishment : PROD
21-down – Holy place where painters go for ‘oney? : IVES

This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22024 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22024 clues and answers were published on Mon 09 Oct 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22024 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Backward students demonstrate human fallibility : SLIPUP
5-across – 17th century girl straddles a horse : JACOBEAN
9-across – High explosive combat may produce many victims : HECATOMB
10-across – Many lights used in the theatre : CLAMPS
11-across – Festival in various lands – Italy’s a possibility : ALLSAINTSDAY
13-across – A low-key dwelling? : FLAT
14-across – Possibly relating to the whole : INTEGRAL
17-across – Successfully manage an abduction? : CARRYOFF
18-across – A small number back church no longer : ONCE
20-across – Educational centre? : MIDDLESCHOOL
23-across – Thinly spread butter and jam : SCRAPE
24-across – Sort of question found in inverted commas : INQUOTES
25-across – He killed a couple of fools in the end : ASSASSIN
26-across – Proceeded to take legal action in the finish : ENSUED

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Right position of course – north : LIEN
3-down – Placatory style of professional stage performer : PLAYACTOR
4-down – It’s looped around a dog : POODLE
5-down – People do what they like with it : JOBSATISFACTION
6-down – Fruits for the shy : COCONUTS
7-down – Comparatively bold material : BRASS
8-down – It’s put in by an attendant or 3 down in 21 down : APPEARANCE
12-down – Where one may find a small jumper with a big top? : FLEACIRCUS
15-down – Fairness demands proper searches : GOODLOOKS
16-down – Anticipates charges for concealing minerals : FORESEES
19-down – Sounds like conversation has a twist : TORQUE
21-down – Large number in new RADA production : DRAMA
22-down – He’s on about being present : HERE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22022 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22022 clues and answers were published on Fri 06 Oct 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22022 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – See 11 : YOURHARE
9-across – See 10 : TORULE
10-across – He was, some said of the Skye-bound lad, a king having no trouble failing : BORN
11-across – Caution opening game plan: author-chefs carry it out : FIRSTCATCH
12-across – Something fishy about this duck? Try some old port : BOMBAY
14-across – Taking it on the chin, lodger goes out, giving us the key : PITCHING
15-across – Fool I see in Richard’s house – or Denmark’s? : YORICK
17-across – Elevation of priest into a division of the church : ASPECT
20-across – Still beyond infinity : AFTERALL
22-across – Public transport without conductor : BUSBAR
23-across – Exhausted knight, holding mirror to naked duchess, might get nowhere : DRAWABLANK
24-across – Constable positioned at this level-crossing? : FLAT
25-across – Servant paid on demand? : BEARER
26-across – Like the Brontes? That’s so right! One’s spoken about! : SORORIAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – An engrossing game : MONOPOLY
2-down – Knutsford, literally where Conservative ran for the money in Harrods : CRAN
3-down – When fellow leaves for Spain, barely drunk : BARFLY
4-down – Proclaims, but doesn’t begin to intrude in, standing orders : STATUTES
5-down – Hush! It’s Newman’s Gone With the Wind : BREATHLESS
6-down – No veal raised in this small container : FLACON
8-down – Community work in the French department : EUROPE
13-down – Cutting communication between landowners and ramblers? : BARBEDWIRE
16-down – Po-faced lexicography here? : CHAMBERS
18-down – The direction of Westerns : THATAWAY
19-down – A two-master turning south invariably : ALWAYS
21-down – False bread maker … : FORGER
22-down – … one could prove it here : BAKERY
24-down – See 2 and 24 across : FORD

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22021 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22021 clues and answers were published on Thu 05 Oct 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22021 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Indecent exhibitions seen through tinted glasses : BLUESPECTACLES
9-across – He takes something out of old farm vehicle : EXTRACTOR
10-across – Condescend to sound like a foreigner : DEIGN
11-across – Lift is warm on the outside : HOIST
12-across – Duck with very strong heart is not quite in the middle : OFFCENTRE
13-across – Unpractical person laying scheme on table : IDEALIST
14-across – Not there to see sailors with net out : ABSENT
17-across – Be opposed to the end : OBJECT
19-across – The Spanish can nip back to the top : PINNACLE
22-across – Foreshadow a silent tear, perhaps : ADUMBRATE
24-across – Moulding solo voice partly in the wrong way : OVOLO
25-across – Return, for example, no article from Italian city : GENOA
26-across – Outstanding professional first met in oriental book? : PROMINENT
27-across – Too accomplished a speaker for moral part to be wrongly construed : PLATFORMORATOR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Fruit of battle to get round mountains : BLENHEIMORANGE
2-down – Open out by ordering tun – sherry, perhaps? : UNTWINE
3-down – Fashionable drink first consumed by one trying to be clever : SMARTALEC
4-down – Turned out to be right sort, bursting into flower : EXTRORSE
5-down – Squabble about Arabic list of customs’ duties : TARIFF
6-down – Anxiety about deuterium nucleus : CADRE
7-down – Record is let out in letter : EPISTLE
8-down – Receiving treatment in accordance with article by physician? : UNDERTHEDOCTOR
15-down – Soldier losing head rashly after veto on shoulder belt : BANDOLIER
16-down – Send cable on creature that’s a garden pest : WIREWORM
18-down – Newspaper diary : JOURNAL
20-down – Least ardent boy taking bird out : COOLEST
21-down – Poetess making simpleton hop about : SAPPHO
23-down – Brag about neckwear on the way : BOAST

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

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