Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22084 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22084 clues and answers were published on Mon 18 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22084 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Note a lenient punishment in school? : JUSTAFEWLINES
10-across – Right to enter guilty plea : ADMISSION
11-across – Dance having beat and vigour : TANGO
12-across – Turns the tables : LISTS
13-across – Some repast eaten little by little? : PIECEMEAL
14-across – Enamelled cutter : INCISOR
16-across – Commuter’s place in life? : STATION
18-across – Very big chap who went down to a stone : GOLIATH
20-across – A name is confused – result of this? : AMNESIA
21-across – Surcharge on a photograph : OVERPRINT
23-across – Impressive, though not entirely legal : AWFUL
24-across – Raise rent for Turkish inn : SERAI
25-across – Standing order’s established in this system : HIERARCHY
26-across – Question put by examiners? Fancy that! : WHATDOYOUKNOW

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Insensitive to air : UNMUSICAL
3-down – Essays in examinations : TESTS
4-down – Member of the seal family : FLIPPER
5-down – Is curious about seven world phenomena : WONDERS
6-down – Generally all at sea : INTHEMAIN
7-down – Irene may appear when he’s around : ERNIE
8-down – Show jumper seen in the gym : VAULTINGHORSE
9-down – In which one should certainly hear a pin drop : BOWLINGALLEYS
15-down – Spaniel to disturb Siamese cat : SEALPOINT
17-down – Proved to be Latin topics of a sort : IPSOFACTO
19-down – Male getting unusually high on love? Ah, well! : HEIGHHO
20-down – Redcoat dressed up in 1930s’ style : ARTDECO
22-down – Huge cost of electrical safety precaution : EARTH
23-down – A person is surprised if you take him this : ABACK

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22082 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22082 clues and answers were published on Fri 15 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22082 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Unforeseen encounter which made someone late? : FATALACCIDENT
10-across – Picking up pink paper I found in the heather : LIFTING
11-across – Pass food which is cool : COLDISH
12-across – Man following company rules : CODES
13-across – Cooked Pie and Preserve article by old gourmet : EPICUREAN
14-across – Wanders in Cairo, vestments in hand : ROVES
16-across – Epic price change leads to precarious situation : PRECIPICE
18-across – Cry of cat, possibly at a curlew? : CATERWAUL
19-across – Blame one left in pot : GUILT
20-across – Detail man to work with plates : LAMINATED
23-across – Inexperienced but about to enter the information : GREEN
24-across – Travel guide? : COURIER
25-across – Like wise man said, you must go in calm : ASSUAGE
26-across – Holiday wear drunk MD rushes to bar : BERMUDASHORTS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Help two fellows inside at about six to make statement on oath : AFFIDAVIT
3-down – I’m held up by a fool, which is wrong : AMISS
4-down – Hang without using the top corner : ANGLE
5-down – Black Rock Ravine in colour : COCHINEAL
6-down – Job centre brought up employment doing sanitary work : DELOUSING
7-down – East Jerusalem uprising causes row : NOISE
8-down – One currently empowered to make time for you? : ELECTRICCLOCK
9-down – Used to provide a transport system down under? : CHANNELTUNNEL
15-down – Element being endlessly strong, returned it with little hesitation : STRONTIUM
16-down – For each journalist finally admitted getting drunk : PLASTERED
17-down – Travelling east, I can rave about it : ITINERANT
21-down – Timid person to think about love : MOUSE
22-down – Slipped up, having article held by rings : DIALS
23-down – Not married, must go without relish : GUSTO

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22081 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22081 clues and answers were published on Thu 14 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22081 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Wine presented by female is in the right hand : RHENISH
5-across – Maybe spelled wrong, claim about silver : MAGICAL
9-across – Crazed family gang drinks gin cocktail on board – making more room for gin? : MAGNIFYINGGLASS
10-across – Piece of Beethoven in the Choral : NINTH
11-across – Secretary of State once identifying royal vocalist : KISSINGER
12-across – Hair swept back? Mr Rusbridger must be in love : ENAMOURED
14-across – Covering of 100 decibels? : CLOUD
15-across – Beg for a degree while in prison? : CADGE
16-across – Record first conducted without leader of choir going barefoot : DISCALCED
18-across – Article by poet Robert gets a penalty: a paper devil can’t shock where there’s no 11 without the Queen : THEGRAVES
21-across – I face disaster without that famous fidd-ler fellow in the old song where there’s no 11 without the Queen : AFINE
22-across – See 18 : ANDPRIVATEPLACE
23-across – Extra something for the choir to wear, say? : SURPLUS
24-across – Make as if to nurse in advance? : PRETEND

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – See 21 : ROMANCE
2-down – Contrive to include an alcoholic’s trouble : ENGINEANDTENDER
3-down – Girl on stray horse – is she from Tralee? : IRISHROSE
4-down – How to get into a hospital? Turn up as a free marketeer : HAYEK
5-down – Polygon’s property of : MANYSIDES
6-down – £1 for one performance by tenor : GIGLI
7-down – Effect of global warming to conflict with a game he played : CHANGEOFCLIMATE
8-down – The hots – very hot – must be given a gloss : LUSTRED
13-down – Vicar, keeping what he got from the Co-op, has American resurrected : RRDIVIVUS
14-down – Criticise pupil for making jelly : CRABAPPLE
15-down – Don’t talk to the girl with the sword : CUTLASS
17-down – Don’t go off where you’re thrown in – hang onto the millstream : DEEPEND
19-down – Right to range in the country : RURAL
20-down – Pay attention and beg, in the proper place, quietly : SITUP

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22080 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22080 clues and answers were published on Wed 13 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22080 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Star playing Castro : CASTOR
5-across – Tree could be so creamy : SYCAMORE
9-across – Whips made by Iris Fitzgerald? : FLAGELLA
10-across – Pale start for sodium flares : LIGHTS
11-across – Trains miss out on delivery system : TRANSMISSION
13-across – Lion among the Romans : HERO
14-across – Constellation of corona and 17 : NORTHERN
17-across – 14 10 could, perhaps, be sailor stealing Aurora : BOREALIS
18-across – What is left of the spider? : REST
20-across – Essential extracts from the press : CONCENTRATES
23-across – Blue rooms out east : MOROSE
24-across – Unreasonable way of paying a poet? : PERVERSE
25-across – Athletes who cover the floor supply : GYMNASTS
26-across – Star cut back on light : POLLUX

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Wife leaves nincompoop for friend : ALLY
3-down – Line up for balancing act : TIGHTROPE
4-down – Give Browning, say, a new lease of life : RELOAD
5-down – I left Sparta in distress, waving flag : STARSANDSTRIPES
6-down – Cyril and Leo playing in coalmine : COLLIERY
7-down – He used sorcery – a mug’s game! : MAGUS
8-down – Return gets errors amended : RETROGRESS
12-down – Study of devils does me only good! : DEMONOLOGY
15-down – Difficult case for the rigidly orthodox : HARDSHELL
16-down – Amazing saves made by unsighted goalkeeper? : BLINDERS
19-down – Provoke tumult in high places : STIRUP
21-down – See 14 : CROWN
22-down – Jacob’s brother in the sauna : ESAU

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22079 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22079 clues and answers were published on Tue 12 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22079 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Where Jack meets Frank … : LONDON
6-across – … this, too, may be the end of the 7 : WATERLOO
9-across – See 17 : RANGER
10-across – Marriage – so flirtation’s a non-starter : ALLIANCE
11-across – House having seen off nous : COMMONSENSE
15-across – Cineraria needed, with something cold about to block nose, perhaps? : SENECIO
17-across – Silver was found under argent here : THELONE
18-across – Requesting 24, though deserving punch : ASKINGFORIT
22-across – Exercises to keep thin and on seafood diet : PLANKTON
23-across – See 4 : BRIDGE
24-across – Extremely inadequate point of entry for drink : VERMOUTH
25-across – See 5 : MORRIS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Criminal looted European city : TOLEDO
2-down – See 12 : DARLINGTON
3-down – Cattle offered in foreign currency? No thanks, you’ll get a dog : PEKINESE
4-down – Record in which unknown associate of Lloyd Webber almost reveals his role : LYRICIST
5-down – Game should belong to coxed crew for Oxford, perhaps? : NINEMENS
7-down – See 21 : LINE
8-down – Not entirely open, so closed : OVER
12-down – Early 7 required to keep 17’s words of affection to companion to the point : STOCKTONTO
13-down – I’ll say wow to free gold : CORRIDOR
14-down – Being worried, work longer hours? : RESTLESS
16-down – Snooker champion might possibly be described as a nutter : CRACKPOT
19-down – Litter the difference between England and Australia, perhaps : FARROW
20-down – Unscrupulous trader promoting big guns : SPIV
21-down – Musical sequence describing minor interval? : HAIR

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

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