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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22020 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22020 clues and answers were published on Wed 04 Oct 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22020 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Baby clothes in the lane? : CRAWLERS
5-across – Bats’ home to be left to fish : BELFRY
9-across – Open case, possibly, from being securely shut? : NOESCAPE
10-across – Meal in old France, not finishing the cake : GATEAU
12-across – Sentinel on guard duty has one, unlike a study in phonetics : LONGU
13-across – Spectacle was here or moved : RAREESHOW
14-across – Self-righteous gloating – posh politician, a prince, is in good condition : TRIUMPHALISM
18-across – 1 2, 2 2, _____ – passionate and angry at return of rebuff : HOTCROSSBUNS
21-across – Turn to divinity, its doctor to have the property of a seesaw : UPANDDOWN
23-across – Light of love? : TORCH
24-across – Turn in path going straight through the thatch : HATPIN
25-across – Remote object following 2 on the road : FARTHING
26-across – 19, perhaps, or sewer? : SINGER
27-across – Lyres, etc played under the rose : SECRETLY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Light held in comparison with … : CANDLE
2-down – … price of book? : APENNY
3-down – One putting on coat presents a pound bill: odd? About right : LACQUERER
4-down – Touching instruments has an effect : REPERCUSSION
6-down – Dodge publicity during vigil : EVADE
7-down – New tune in the open : FRESHAIR
8-down – Bill for 2 25 presented by the 5 or 17’s : YOUOWEME
11-down – Company with English musicians in prison for expansive dressing : CREPEBANDAGE
15-down – Jotter in the year disposed to art : ANNOTATOR
16-down – Even if the way is upwards, there may be 2 for them : THOUGHTS
17-down – Tours leader in the fields : STMARTIN
19-down – Creator of 17 with nasal defects? : ARTIST
20-down – Say Turn: it’s your round: 2 for me! : THEGUY
22-down – Urge to take the wheel : DRIVE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22019 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22019 clues and answers were published on Tue 03 Oct 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22019 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Recent medical graduates bury partners : INTERNS
5-across – Setter seen in Florida : ORLANDO
10-across – Soprano role – 1,001 duets : MIMI
11-across – Conductor excluding writer with bad return : BARBIROLLI
12-across – Return for support after game : GOBACK
13-across – They are wound and screwy : WINGNUTS
14-across – River rose exceptionally, giving rise to water supply : RESERVOIR
16-across – Frightened of the weather forecast? : WINDY
17-across – Brushed round seats and tabletop : SWEPT
19-across – A spaniel without one is more resilient : SPRINGIER
23-across – One working with trees, working for trees : FORESTER
24-across – Pals have no right to be devils : FIENDS
26-across – Novel found just behind a kind of dressing-table : VANITYFAIR
27-across – Talk openly about East Yorkshire river : AIRE
28-across – Is present given when nurse is enrolled in wartime service? : ATTENDS
29-across – A tree, when shaken, tinkles : LENTISK

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – So disgusting that no one takes part : NOISOME
3-down – A little sister I called Heather : ERICA
4-down – Novelist’s name on a new book – Vladimir’s first : NABOKOV
6-down – Rules broken by singer : REIGNS
7-down – Plentiful ill-gotten gain both sides of border : ABOUNDING
8-down – Erased document about lease : DELETED
9-down – Flower Power and criminal reform : CROWNIMPERIAL
15-down – Unnecessary oath from former president I’ve allowed in : EXPLETIVE
18-down – Court poet not quite an insect : WOODANT
20-down – Operative like a policeman : INFORCE
21-down – Going over a river stops bears : ENDURES
22-down – Execution may be sedate, we hear : STAYED
25-down – Demand payment? Just so! : EXACT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22018 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22018 clues and answers were published on Mon 02 Oct 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22018 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Circumvents current faults : SHORTCIRCUITS
10-across – Frequent stop : HANGABOUT
11-across – Saw about group composition : TENON
12-across – Purpose of police duty : POINT
13-across – Wicked and I can’t, alas, reform : SATANICAL
14-across – Recognised by the critics? : NOTICED
16-across – Increase keenness? : SHARPEN
18-across – Showed off, though second-rate and badly dressed : BRAGGED
20-across – Resembled a damaged knee-cap on the outside : LIKENED
21-across – Addressing some criticism : TALKINGTO
23-across – Part of floral plate design? : PETAL
24-across – She requires daily refreshment : LYDIA
25-across – No less sure to find out : ASCERTAIN
26-across – Defeated by the elements? : WEATHERBEATEN

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – She gets the theatre in an uproar : HENRIETTA
3-down – Respond to plea to go back on stage : REACT
4-down – Frustrated, that’s what a mule is! : CROSSED
5-down – Turns to stare about : ROTATES
6-down – Hammers home : UPTONPARK
7-down – The keynote to good health? : TONIC
8-down – Glass-cutter? : SHIPINABOTTLE
9-down – A tree leaning over a ramp, perhaps : INCLINEDPLANE
15-down – Aware of son acting badly : COGNISANT
17-down – Pull out all the stops? Could be just the opposite! : PUNCTUATE
19-down – A number agreed to correction, being humble : DEGRADE
20-down – Pride in its arrival is no sin for the parents : LIONCUB
22-down – Deposit for a house : LODGE
23-down – Deposit a jacket and hood : PARKA

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22016 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22016 clues and answers were published on Fri 29 Sep 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22016 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – To pay my dues, I did wrongly place North Yorkshire town in Cumbria … : SETTLEUP
9-across – … however, please don’t get so agitated! : SETTLE
10-across – See 9 : DOWN
11-across – Sing mass being imprisoned, very hot : SWELTERING
12-across – Having more than one’s share of troubles in the East End, perhaps? : BIGAMY
14-across – Rider turned, getting reprimand, showing tooth : SPROCKET
15-across – Trestle, for example? : ANAGRAM
17-across – Writer puts plagiarism into service, blemish-free : SCRIBER
20-across – Put off consuming vessel, a bottle of wine : DECANTER
22-across – To earn a crust, he will sell one : PIEMAN
23-across – Song needed to make a Tory politician 6? : WIDDECOMBE
24-across – See 23 : FAIR
25-across – Party, but no escort! : FIESTA
26-across – 24down attempts to restrict English cliques : COTERIES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – County filled with love for sex appeal, turned to faithfulness : DEVOTION
2-down – Model in tabloid, causing shock : STUN
3-down – Upper garment, or lower : JERSEY
4-down – Animal fed with vegetables to make calm : APPEASE
5-down – Might 26 be so? : ESOTERIC
6-down – Slovenly tart, turned on and pulling? : ATTRACTIVE
7-down – Take a breather during exercise, then dive : PLUNGE
13-down – M1’s in time to expand : AGGRANDISE
16-down – One absolutely in control : AUTOCRAT
18-down – Tester needs something to cut up with the digger : EXAMINER
19-down – Darling, I’m to be gripped lower : GRIMACE
21-down – Team in Ireland jogged and avoided special preparation : ELIXIR
22-down – 24across-ly 24across? : PRETTY
24-down – Steady partnership : FIRM

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22015 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22015 clues and answers were published on Thu 28 Sep 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22015 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Shut up, being intimidated outwardly, in the byre : COWSHED
5-across – Comparatively cheeky hand : FLIPPER
9-across – Marmalade’s jejune, pointless, ridiculous – 2’s trademarks : JAMANDJERUSALEM
10-across – Golfing connections : LINKS
11-across – Ulster was a tease, being foolish : NITWITTED
12-across – Change for a quid at the Flag from drinks : DAIQUIRIS
14-across – His Grace’s related to 2 : DUCAL
15-across – Welles’s Golden Boy : ORSON
16-across – The Jolly Fellow – how gliders ascend : THERMALLY
18-across – PM at Morecambe knew the road to Wigan pier : ERICBLAIR
21-across – One person’s mathematical unit : NEPER
22-across – The base and the elite to start making up? : FOUNDATIONCREAM
23-across – What’s gloomy about me – I can’t concentrate : DREAMER
24-across – Nigel, the writer, takes some damask from the brocade : BALCHIN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Enticed and inveigled by rotter, pretty one’s gone missing : CAJOLED
2-down – Indications this month I deplore in the Guardian that gave PM a hard time : WOMENSINSTITUTE
3-down – A minimum of work on the clock? : HANDSTURN
4-down – On being taken from the keep I am placed in mustard city : DIJON
5-down – Earnest acknowledgment among the trees at the end : FORETASTE
6-down – Setter’s got his set – buzz off! : IMSHI
7-down – I accept help with soil management, which 2 didn’t like : POLITICALSPEECH
8-down – Stagger round defence ministry to change its structure : REMODEL
13-down – In reference to the drawer, I withdraw : RETRACTOR
14-down – The Lord’s party, a small one, to call for curtailment : DOMINICAL
15-down – Stuffed a complete American policeman : OVERFED
17-down – British policeman who does the marshalling? : YARDMAN
19-down – Advice to girl if ‘er boyfriend’s shy? Turn down the light! : BEDIM
20-down – Take off your homburg and have a lozenge : RHOMB

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

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