Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22122 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22122 clues and answers were published on Fri 02 Feb 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22122 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Duck with drink trouble? : PINTAIL
5-across – One, for example, turning to group for cover : BANDAGE
10-across – Some cheap seats placed in recess : APSE
11-across – Appeal for supernatural aid in one’s business : INVOCATION
12-across – Soldier has to enquire about air : ASKARI
13-across – Tear about always, but not disrespectful : REVERENT
14-across – Establish correspondence, later suffering change in heart : CORRELATE
16-across – Figures point to being strained : TENSE
17-across – Stiff person in jam : STICK
19-across – Binding criticism : STRICTURE
23-across – Vehicle in which fairy queen returned with hooligan aboard : BROUGHAM
24-across – Article about facsimile cover for bed : CANOPY
26-across – Feelings of people involved in sin test? : SENTIMENTS
27-across – Country one managed to see : IRAN
28-across – Undergraduate makes boss throw out ten : STUDENT
29-across – Stuck at this point in total : ADHERED

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Claim to be through with love – isn’t that laying it on a bit thick? : IMPASTO
3-down – Can’t he take the part of a Greek character? : THETA
4-down – Starting with a capital letter, usually : INITIAL
6-down – One with clove-hitch in shady retreat : ALCOVE
7-down – The cleaner has put a chap off : DETERGENT
8-down – Keeps airman from flying for good reasons : GROUNDS
9-down – Exaggeration about summary of financial position : OVERSTATEMENT
15-down – Enlisted soldiers performed crude rite : RECRUITED
18-down – Rome shattered by explosive shell, causing distress : TORMENT
20-down – Cut inside out, including first chapter : INCISED
21-down – Provide a substitute for two materials : REPLACE
22-down – Counterfeit article by priest : SHAMAN
25-down – Artless one in ecclesiastical passage : NAIVE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22121 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22121 clues and answers were published on Thu 01 Feb 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22121 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Inspector again involved in painful affair of the heart : ANGINAPECTORIS
8-across – A script given by physician for nightcaps? : DRAMS
9-across – Weapon with a jolly, blazing sound : ARMALITE
11-across – Show, a one-time hit, put over in the same location : EXHIBIT
12-across – Suffer from insufficient energy : UNDERGO
13-across – Stingy character of motorway service having lost its grip : MISER
15-across – Grub – could it turn men crazy? : NUTRIMENT
17-across – Baker’s selection of tacky pies? : TIPSYCAKE
20-across – Priestly wear for short medieval peasant : COTTA
21-across – Comparisons concerning the nose : ODOROUS
23-across – English reader of old High German : ELECTOR
25-across – Cheap fare always available in a coach : STEERAGE
26-across – More to be included in the next race at Doncaster : EXTRA
27-across – False pretences no sin – but they get the bird : PRISONSENTENCE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – New warden with proposal for 10 : ANDREWMOTION
2-down – Snap of teeth with sound of bow on string : GNASH
3-down – Fruit of blunder in battle : NASEBERRY
4-down – No tea served up on local transport : PHAETON
5-down – Many bankrupt after company fire : COMBUST
6-down – Before getting this, bearings start to be heated : OILED
7-down – Ecumenical feature of the cross? : INTERSECT
10-down – A true tale adapted by US writer, or 1 down : POETLAUREATE
14-down – What one might do at a brasserie or brassiere : SUPPORTER
16-down – Rise in building material around last Easter : INCREMENT
18-down – Possibly ban Asti – and other drinks! : ABSTAIN
19-down – Interpreter, for example, in late summer abroad : EXEGETE
22-down – Prognostications provided by women’s magazine : OMENS
24-down – Giant free from taint : TITAN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22120 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22120 clues and answers were published on Wed 31 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22120 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Hold up the picnic basket : HAMPER
4-across – Aim to put charged particle on circuit : AMBITION
9-across – Down under in Wales : NEATH
10-across – Developing tendril, for example, is tightly curled : RINGLETED
11-across – He takes the stand to get a fair deal, they say : CABDRIVER
12-across – Scrub article written in Gaelic : ERASE
13-across – All choked up? : FULLTHROTTLE
17-across – Power changed Rene into a strong supporter : STRENGTHENER
20-across – Beast is all right and sounds happy : OKAPI
21-across – Monumental barrage put up by Mother with vacuum cleaner in front : HOOVERDAM
23-across – A long way down to get an acceptable drink : AGOODDROP
24-across – Room at the Top showing in Athens : ATTIC
25-across – Collector equipped with buzzer : HONEYBEE
26-across – Dicky admits being in the thick of it : AMIDST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Restraint shown by worker on strike : HANDCUFF
2-down – Food for team replacement at dinner-dance : MEATBALL
3-down – Number three is confused : ETHER
5-down – Young person has it at orgy – upset higher faction : MINORITYGROUP
6-down – In part, time will heal the affliction : ILLHEALTH
7-down – Damaged train at railway terminal where immediate action is required : INTRAY
8-down – Odd inclusion in study set-up – agreed? : NODDED
10-down – Let the other guy pay back the fee : REVERSECHARGE
14-down – Until now a mite shady, possibly, about one : TOTHISDAY
15-down – Not rephrased, tune died out : UNIDITED
16-down – Fussy, cute sort gets the best of the meat : PRIMECUT
18-down – Top-up has modified a chemical compound : POTASH
19-down – A red desert? : MAROON
22-down – Get ready for battle – Marne, maybe : ENARM

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22119 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22119 clues and answers were published on Tue 30 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22119 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Post-conceptual development more by accident : EMBRYO
5-across – Heroic lines newfangled: The c-crew did a bunk, but he nobly held on to the hose : THEBOY
8-across – Bottom employing this spacecraft? : SHUTTLE
9-across – Busy old England? On the contrary : ENGAGED
11-across – Impatience with workers taking strides from a chap? : ANTSINONESPANTS
12-across – See 5 : DECK
13-across – Agent’s message might call quietly for Fonteyn’s comeback : CRYPTOGRAM
17-across – See 5 : THEBURNING
18-across – Twin of the King James Authorised Version : ESAU
20-across – See 5 : ALLBUTHEHADFLED
23-across – Dislodged one caught between, first, mother, then daughter : EVICTED
24-across – See 5 : STOODON
25-across – See 5 : WHENCE
26-across – Where two objects : TITIPU

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Face down : MOUSTACHE
3-down – This outlet sought by three blind mice? : RETAIL
4-down – Put this to intrude with no one reason, perhaps : ONESOARIN
5-down – The setter’s leitmotif : THEME
6-down – Scoop race entrants’ urge to make love : EGGSPOON
7-down – Swelling stops here : ORGAN
8-down – Pay no attention to this order : STANDATEASE
10-down – Underbids me possibly to take a load off : DISEMBURDEN
14-down – Strikes against periodical seat reorganisation : PUNCHESAT
15-down – How the cattle thief prepared dinner? : RUSTLEDUP
16-down – To the French, Gaunt’s rebellion brought such a golden age : AUGUSTAN
19-down – Ingenious how gold turns up in the mine entrance : ADROIT
21-down – Dithmithive polith here? : LEITH
22-down – Bound to lay off : HEDGE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22118 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22118 clues and answers were published on Mon 29 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22118 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Sweet dog Bill Sikes owned : BULLSEYE
9-across – Period for redemption, states article by church : USANCE
10-across – Take off in second gear : SKIT
11-across – Was irresolute, being abandoned and sick at heart : VACILLATED
12-across – Rabble’s downfall : SHOWER
14-across – Recognising gin and tonic ingredients : NOTICING
15-across – It’s usually written to one unable to read it : EPITAPH
17-across – Joined by a sailor – or a parson : SPLICED
20-across – Island off the Needles? : GUERNSEY
22-across – Informally visit doctor at home about a small operation : DROPIN
23-across – Flora vetoing tea break : VEGETATION
24-across – When corruption is about, I show no respect for authority : RIOT
25-across – Spring back after being fired : RECOIL
26-across – Peace-making counsel is put at risk : ENDANGER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Marine store in Hong Kong? : JUNKSHOP
2-down – Flier without a single chart : PLOT
3-down – We maintain a craftsman : WEAVER
4-down – Sport enclosure : FENCING
5-down – The mark of a finished writer? : FULLSTOP
6-down – Charmian so upset – a drink is needed : MARASCHINO
7-down – Hide or show : SCREEN
13-down – Warn omelet is off, but may still be eaten : WATERMELON
16-down – Fair examinations should be! : PASSABLE
18-down – Growth of conciliation overturned by workers – a bad sign : EVILOMEN
19-down – How schoolboys are punished and journalists recognised? : BYLINES
21-down – Rough? That’s odd : UNEVEN
22-down – Complete exposure of corruption in Dundee : DENUDE
24-down – Small pig has nose tip embedded in furrow : RUNT

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

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