Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21673 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21673 clues and answers were published on Wed 25 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21673 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – The orator’s awkward situation in the Park : SPEAKERS
9-across – : CORNER
10-across – Swallow hurriedly in the bar : BOLT
11-across – Team matter about learner in the test : ELEVENPLUS
12-across – Complain about head, doctor being brought in : BEMOAN
14-across – It’s experienced in coagulated milk, they say : INCURRED
15-across – This is the flattest beer in two ways : STALEST
17-across – Signary used in the plant : SYRINGA
20-across – The AA man in trouble? I don’t like it : ANATHEMA
22-across – Man to look around for an opening word : SESAME
23-across – Erred and began to go wrong in the drinking place : BEERGARDEN
24-across – The garden trowel produces a hollow : DENT
25-across – : VESTED
26-across – Personal involvement in an item of clothing? : INTEREST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – One hopes he’s the one down! : OPPONENT
2-down – An inclination to use jargon : CANT
3-down – Stretch of water to divide the North : SEVERN
4-down – Austere person is kind of acid about society : ASCETIC
5-down – Harsh stones near the churchyard : SCREECHY
6-down – Ropes giving support to suitable possessions : PROPERTIES
7-down – Some paper used in study : PERUSE
13-down – Cancel change to a better oil : OBLITERATE
16-down – Those officiating care for parking in stages : STEWARDS
18-down – The spirit of sportsmen? : GAMENESS
19-down – Lady Heather, in the main very sentimental : MAUDLIN
21-down – Joint flat, we hear, is required : NEEDED
22-down – Assembly’s thrash held up in cathedral city : SENATE
24-down – River race : DART

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21672 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21672 clues and answers were published on Tue 24 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21672 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Man keeps on in charge with victory on satellite TV – perhaps, yes, I can now milk a scandal : MONICALEWINSKY
9-across – Capital halved for the farm, extending some time into the future : LONGRANGE
10-across – A bee’s purpose: to carry the gold back : DRONE
11-across – Send off team’s inside half? : EXILE
12-across – Sluice that perhaps forced out a president : WATERGATE
13-across – Weapon turned on a politician of little value : NUGATORY
14-across – Nothing left in morose Hobbit character : GOLLUM
17-across – Bun baked, or not initially, like the one in the oven? : UNBORN
19-across – All fingers and thumbs collecting snake eggs, a small amount in the kitchen : TEASPOON
22-across – Denial of responsibility avoids law being broken : DISAVOWAL
24-across – Cut fruit : PRUNE
25-across – Hillock discovered after initial sex change? : MOUND
26-across – Welsh minister with a sin drove off the rails? : RONDAVIES
27-across – Neglected issue in the 1 across affair : CHELSEACLINTON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Was 8’s thing the result of l-lemon due in MMI? : MILLENNIUMDOME
2-down – … then grandad’s the Queen in China! : NANKING
3-down – Egyptologist eating swan and chips : CARPENTER
4-down – Plant grown wild in Luton not functioning : LUNGWORT
5-down – Laid to show war heartless and death a non-starter : WREATH
6-down – Dare in strip lifting Irish bottom : NADIR
7-down – Clever clogs is King of Berlin since 1989? : KNOWALL
8-down – MP entered loans foolishly? : PETERMANDELSON
15-down – Tubes replacing spaghetti with hoops instead of squares : OESOPHAGI
16-down – Greek Hades, horribly nice : HELLENIC
18-down – Medicinal element turning stomach in senior clergyman, missing work : BISMUTH
20-down – Eye expert implanting one into boss-eyed locust : OCULIST
21-down – First shot of rally holds point with bend on ball : SWERVE
23-down – Gore has valid application : VIDAL

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21671 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21671 clues and answers were published on Mon 23 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21671 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – It’s said to produce a smile : CHEESE
4-across – Investments frame-up exposes people to ridicule : STOCKS
9-across – Completes games of bowls : ENDS
10-across – Actors are prepared to appear in it : MAKEUPROOM
11-across – Craft project : LAUNCH
12-across – Fruit with coverings – they’re bananas : NUTCASES
13-across – Courses for craftsmen : WATERWAYS
15-across – Block and tackle? : STOP
16-across – Handy aid to warmth : MUFF
17-across – In which to plant bulbs? : LIGHTSOIL
21-across – Bird of ill omen to an old criminal? : BLACKCAP
22-across – Commercial break cut off : ADRIFT
24-across – Instantly, but not there and then : HEREANDNOW
25-across – Where barristers get refreshers? : INNS
26-across – Draw, perhaps, ten of diamonds : ENTICE
27-across – A man’s calling for Australian port : SYDNEY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Choral work can go on so long : CANTATA
2-down – Where Westphalians may go to eat in Germany : ESSEN
3-down – Possibly show me love in one way or another : SOMEHOW
5-down – Responsible for a convict getting privileges : TRUSTY
6-down – Quixotic writer never acts in play : CERVANTES
7-down – Expressed one’s views – loudly? : SPOKEUP
8-down – Taking the plunge when not suited for it : SKINNYDIPPING
14-down – In effect, I turn out to be capable : EFFICIENT
16-down – Man having to admit set-up is kind of cross : MALTESE
18-down – Principal method of progress : HEADWAY
19-down – One’s childhood in one’s imagination : INFANCY
20-down – Such a railway may make a fair profit : SCENIC
23-down – Put a curb round gelding’s head and get control : REIGN

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21669 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21669 clues and answers were published on Fri 20 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21669 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Limp little books found in dingy place : HOBBLE
5-across – Contrite writer, one seen in front of canvas dwelling : PENITENT
9-across – Bottle or tin kept in check : DECANTER
10-across – Turned to me to get into religious eduction, though far away : REMOTE
11-across – This for a honeymoon, but the record was faulty : THREESACROWD
13-across – Cooker turns iron hot and cold : CHEF
14-across – Mere talk describes this turn in skiing : TELEMARK
17-across – A good man, a lieutenant, holding combat to be courageous : STALWART
18-across – Thus half one’s home is in this part of London : SOHO
20-across – Summary law gives less than the correct amount : SHORTMEASURE
23-across – Good backlog not finished for tradesman : GROCER
24-across – Morally suspect behaviour of departing boy : GOINGSON
25-across – Bonnet, perhaps, hides top set of wheels : HEADGEAR
26-across – Short journey made for another in Clermont-Ferrand : ERRAND

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Maiden, perhaps, says it’s your turn to speak : OVER
3-down – A fuel tub I mended is not ugly : BEAUTIFUL
4-down – Absolute savage in tree : ENTIRE
5-down – True street guide – you don’t know him from Adam : PERFECTSTRANGER
6-down – Number: a thousand in a gathering as a rule : NORMALLY
7-down – Settle up for a clocklike device : TIMER
8-down – Remarkable school put up with a local celebrity : NOTEWORTHY
12-down – Wave to attract pale animal : WHITEHORSE
15-down – Delivery boy holding pickle, green as it might be : MESSENGER
16-down – Friend with moving meter provides symbol of success : PALMTREE
19-down – I’m like a stalactite in dark red volcanic rock : PUMICE
21-down – Hurried to get account in the red : RACED
22-down – Blue Western concealed by university teacher : DOWN

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21668 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21668 clues and answers were published on Thu 19 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21668 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Stiff stuff made by males … : BUCKRAM
5-across – … one of whom talks about meat in coral islands : BAHAMAS
9-across – Queen engulfed in volcano and left for ever : ETERNAL
10-across – Origin of the Bible : GENESIS
11-across – Duty on a lot of spirits? That was my idea : METHOUGHT
12-across – Resurrect the god that is Egypt’s head : RAISE
13-across – Cast hasn’t finished the quarrel : THROW
15-across – For 23down 24 no beer in the Arndale Centre’s the chief worry : ARCHFIEND
17-across – Forest destroyer’s regularity sounds a mathematical concept : LOGARITHM
19-across – Conservative member to 12 himself : CLIMB
22-across – Utility supplies hands across the Channel : MAINS
23-across – Unwanted growth has proceeded round the whole street : GALLSTONE
25-across – Cause lack of prefabrication in place of disrepute : DEPRIVE
26-across – Model place in Kipling’s tale by himself : CATWALK
27-across – Return cosy and glowing from report : GUNSHOT
28-across – What Internet users produce is ruin : TINTERN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Insect and rodent drink a little milk, under a pint : BEERMAT
2-down – City succeeding to win for another : CHESTER
3-down – Top of range: enter Beatle : RINGO
4-down – Spiteful male model about to get dressed : MALIGNANT
5-down – 23down changed to one that’s dyed in the wool : BIGOT
6-down – Respectful of choir in trouble : HONORIFIC
7-down – Girl I have reached by letter : MISSIVE
8-down – Turn the Guardian blue and it will stop functioning : SUSPEND
14-down – Writer sadly dims in value : WORDSMITH
16-down – Fellow member according to law knowing what goes on? : COMPLICIT
17-down – Delay about building of Dome – help needed with stile : LAMEDOG
18-down – Forbidding the writer : GRIMPEN
20-down – Press for time? It’s early days : IRONAGE
21-down – Interrupt a burglary? : BREAKIN
23-down – Take Oxford course : GREAT
24-down – : SATAN

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

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