Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22162 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22162 clues and answers were published on Wed 21 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22162 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Steps up to castles in the air? : FLIGHTOFFANCY
10-across – Statue named after delivery? : LIBERTY
11-across – Swinish dictator with a place in the sun : SUIDIAN
12-across – Returning soldier can arrive at winter quarters : IGLOO
13-across – Licensing measure for bird and fish : ENTITLING
14-across – Take a sound hard look at the size of an egg : GLAIR
16-across – Big Daddy’s old lady? : GRANDMAMA
18-across – In no position to join Labour? : OUTOFWORK
19-across – Cornish member of a body of social workers : SWARM
20-across – Frustrates Kant’s foul disposition : OUTFLANKS
23-across – Call for a pint in the vault : CRYPT
24-across – Spiritual singer appearing in Oberon’s revival : ROBESON
25-across – Hurdles to sobriety in Dylan Thomas’s patch : WATTLES
26-across – Only this part c-converts into a howling convert : LYCANTHROPIST

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Suitor left in ballet movement : LIBELLANT
3-down – She sought solitude in the dress-circle : GARBO
4-down – Season with this season, say : THYME
5-down – Lent dog to show the quick route to advancement : FASTTRACK
6-down – Disaster? I could be the embodiment of Justice : ARISTIDES
7-down – Wind blowing hot and cold, they say : CHILI
8-down – Ecstasy from glory in clues of doubtful distinction : FLYINGCOLOURS
9-down – Character development needs one – a good memory: it’s a failing during the Millennium : ANAGRAMMATISM
15-down – Amateur cracksman takes one: a natural freeloader from the orient : RAFFLESIA
16-down – Reason madman becomes an oil producer : GROUNDNUT
17-down – Stupid sheep taking a rise out of Milton’s sporting shady lady : AMARYLLIS
21-down – Objection raised by Toc H’s Clayton : TUBBY
22-down – One employed in Bayeux’s underground takeaway service : SEWER
23-down – As distressed as Lizzie Borden”s mother? : CUTUP

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22161 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22161 clues and answers were published on Tue 20 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22161 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Back again with golden girl for 18 : ROWENA
4-across – Musician who gives false accounts? : FIDDLER
9-across – Everybody Russian keeps a model 13 : ALLIGATOR
10-across – False turn in the toilets : BOGUS
11-across – Meeting to vex proverbially patient character : TRYST
12-across – Drunk goes for pre-salted nuts : PLASTERED
13-across – Pig’s head in cream – recipe sent back by member of class : REPTILE
15-across – Alien retired, retreating from argument : DEBATE
17-across – Plant from the Eastern Isles : SESELI
19-across – Snake receiving religious instruction from music maker : MARIMBA
22-across – Where to relax with light music after church : EASYCHAIR
24-across – Leaves on equal terms : QUITS
26-across – Cheeky chap on fiddle and piano : SCAMP
27-across – Swiss 18, losing nothing, gets let out : HELVETIAN
28-across – Serious bridge opponents first produce artwork : ENGRAVE
29-across – Shorty goes to Sweden in pain : STITCH

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Churchman securing a supplier of energy : REACTOR
2-down – 25 is a friend to women : WALLY
3-down – Clubbing with Spooner’s scalpel? : NIGHTLIFE
4-down – Saucy striker, perhaps : FORWARD
5-down – Obligation to take turn in first performance : DEBUT
6-down – Power of Maths: record with which member secures unlikely hit : LOGARITHM
7-down – Live with faction pursuing heartless rogue : RESIDE
8-down – Food past its sell-by date contains source of pandemic : STAPLE
14-down – Crash involving ship in, for instance, conscription service : PRESSGANG
16-down – Shed takes on mission as a favour : BYREQUEST
18-down – Russian ruler with garden tool for Scottish hero : IVANHOE
19-down – Spy drinking artist’s spirits : MORALE
20-down – Ban this concoction! : ABSINTH
21-down – Tenant with smaller quantity of drugs : LESSEE
23-down – Elevenses for publishers’ assistant : CUPPA
25-down – Someone intellectually challenged to dot Is, perhaps : IDIOT

This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22160 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22160 clues and answers were published on Mon 19 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22160 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Consecrate a Rodin sculpture : ORDAIN
5-across – Go away when it’s cloudless on holiday : CLEAROFF
9-across – Is provocative when it appears in a stage presentation : AGITATES
10-across – Worn-out shoe? : GALOSH
11-across – Returns from work : EARNEDINCOME
13-across – Wine shippers use it : PORT
14-across – Heading for the frozen wastes – or stuck in them : ICEBOUND
17-across – Relief organisation for the hot and peevish? : REDCROSS
18-across – Bound to sound like a current variation : TIED
20-across – Court linesman : POETLAUREATE
23-across – Inward-turning scientist : DARWIN
24-across – Air traffic control : ELEVATOR
25-across – Put away for safety? : IMPRISON
26-across – Alluring abstraction? : TAKING

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Cheap papers enjoyed by students : RAGS
3-down – Teach unit in way that’s unorthodox, but reliable : AUTHENTIC
4-down – Small number attempt to entertain a public official : NOTARY
5-down – Features editor? : COSMETICSURGEON
6-down – It suffers periodic reversals in the kitchen : EGGTIMER
7-down – Priest in church demonstrates holy memento : RELIC
8-down – Sole distributor? : FISHMONGER
12-down – Suffers injuries, as invaders do : COMETOHARM
15-down – In agony for quite a stretch? : ONTHERACK
16-down – Words of praise : HOSANNAS
19-down – The French people weren’t finally keen : LAMENT
21-down – Building quarters inside a hill : TOWER
22-down – Blue feathers : DOWN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22158 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22158 clues and answers were published on Fri 16 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22158 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Relaxed eating soldier’s medicinal plant : COMFREY
5-across – Supplement for Dutch chemical company during depression : CODICIL
9-across – A posh actor crashed vehicle : AUTOCAR
10-across – A student leaves one country for another : AUSTRIA
11-across – Refractory when turning to criticism : FIREPROOF
12-across – Sweet prince meets Virginia : HALVA
13-across – Sticky stuff initially stuck in hold : RESIN
15-across – Vegetable popular in tavern : AUBERGINE
17-across – Sea creature hit police sergeant? He will! : LAMPSHELL
19-across – Decoration held by journalist in Bury : EMBED
22-across – Son boasted of wages commonly : SCREW
23-across – Water is a barrier to pig : ADAMSWINE
25-across – Great composer accepts student librettist : GILBERT
26-across – Vengeful daughter to choose gunman : ELECTRA
27-across – Greek character gets over speech defect in time : EPSILON
28-across – Fibres coiled right around the fireplace : RINGLET

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Beetle keeps maiden on edge : CHAMFER
2-down – Medium Ishtar bewitched killed a bull : MITHRAS
3-down – Racehorse going uphill is run over : RECAP
4-down – Drinker’s challenge is ordeal Fay bungled : YARDOFALE
5-down – After tea, a couple of fellows banter : CHAFF
6-down – Doctor hid Grace’s execution : DISCHARGE
7-down – Composer’s heart’s bad when climbing : CORELLI
8-down – General hides a cigarette in the greenery : LEAFAGE
14-down – Owen”s heel is mangled in the front of the plane : NOSSWHEEL
16-down – Crooner makes delivery on a beast : BALLADEER
17-down – Food in sink in the alley : LASAGNE
18-down – Game fellows tour the Republic of Botswana : MARBLES
20-down – British weapon page left in city : BRISTOL
21-down – Long for shed of a particular manufacture : DIECAST
23-down – Continue to play in London : ACTON
24-down – Small bird’s tail : STERN

This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22157 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22157 clues and answers were published on Thu 15 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22157 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Frank clue for flier : PLAINSPOKEN
9-across – Cowherd’s pie and broth : CHOWDER
10-across – Keen on quiet moment to be told secret : CRYPTIC
11-across – Lot of bottle backing country’s secret society : CARBONARI
12-across – Gas ring on range : OZONE
13-across – Prodigal son has this too : ALSO
14-across – Half ardent about Germany, for example : FATHERLAND
16-across – Swimmer that is holding party for Nelson’s talent : BRILLIANCE
19-across – A short nun’s goddess : ISIS
21-across – Drink that can be on the hour : GLASS
22-across – Not the main way to edge hat : BROADBRIM
24-across – Stupid since 19 : ASININE
25-across – Work lining roof should be felt : TACTILE
26-across – Close to thrill about a singer : NIGHTINGALE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Rubbish in Croatian port’s off-putting : PROCRASTINATION
2-down – Reproductive system, we hear : AUDIO
3-down – A stew-up without heart is bliss : NIRVANA
4-down – Somewhat hungry Gregorian? : PECKISH
5-down – Notes character from here : KEYBOARD
6-down – Compulsion to join in general mass : NATIONALSERVICE
7-down – Wattle one spies under bill : ACACIA
8-down – Floor finish finally defies belief : SCREED
15-down – It stops water going on and off : FLASHING
16-down – Saying what wish might be to carry around this one : BEGGAR
17-down – Confession of dishonesty keeps one in circulation : AMBIENT
18-down – Learn about defeat when one’s in the soup : CROUTON
20-down – Precedes a fall, one might add : SUMMER
23-down – Country house had a charming interior : DACHA

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

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