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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22055 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22055 clues and answers were published on Tue 14 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22055 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Oppressive regime in football division without Hoddle’s leadership : FASCISM
5-across – Regarding difficult clues, one is not inclined to be forthcoming : RECLUSE
9-across – Country river and mountains : RURAL
10-across – Laid, meant to be in layers : LAMINATED
11-across – Against bogus responses : ANTIPHONY
12-across – Make it lawful for head teacher to bring back corporal punishment : ENACT
13-across – Dog fails to start, being below par : EAGLE
15-across – Some civil unrest must be laid at his door : MILOSEVIC
18-across – One is left without a souvenir : REMAINDER
19-across – Calls for signs of marital status : RINGS
21-across – Chaos could be regarded as fun : SNAFU
23-across – Are these genetically modified? Yes, so a ban is required : SOYABEANS
25-across – Road speed violation by one reckless of danger : DESPERADO
26-across – Quick to do a bad turn : ALIVE
27-across – Cost of keeping swans in the river : EXPENSE
28-across – You may step on it coming home : DOORMAT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Leave for a drink : FORSAKE
2-down – Plan to make up huge pastries? : STRATAGEM
3-down – An Oxfordshire village is given to cheek : ISLIP
4-down – Man without shape having a little defect? : MALFORMED
5-down – Up the wall in France ? goodness, it’s a queer game! : RUMMY
6-down – He reduces study for the more intellectually challenged : CONDENSER
7-down – Extreme participation in unlawful trade : ULTRA
8-down – Called back to East Lon-don, that’s very clear : EIDETIC
14-down – Follower of philosophy of Paine, unfortunately without remedy : EPICUREAN
16-down – Royal lord assembled a pile : LORRYLOAD
17-down – Mail van’s bit of damage could be deliberate : VANDALISM
18-down – 18 across makes soldier turn inside : RESIDUE
20-down – Doubt one may be apprehended : SUSPECT
22-down – His stories made one sit up : AESOP
23-down – Coach for the theatre : STAGE
24-down – Robe a novice might wear to take part in jollification : BEANO

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22054 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22054 clues and answers were published on Mon 13 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22054 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Traditional cocktail? : OLDFASHIONED
8-across – A nutcase : CRANIUM
9-across – Discover a foreign planet : UNEARTH
11-across – In age so twisted, suffering pains : AGONIES
12-across – Composer returns script with a neat amendment : SMETANA
13-across – It is well used by desert travellers : OASIS
14-across – Facial make-up used by police : IDENTIKIT
16-across – The odd messenger may be craftily dodging duty : RUMRUNNER
19-across – Police chase ends in the wood : COPSE
21-across – She may be used to describe Biblical epistles : PAULINE
23-across – People in court can catch it! : NETCORD
24-across – Tell you it’s wrong to scream : YELLOUT
25-across – Bearing out what one would be rude to do : BARGEIN
26-across – A symptom of depression? : UNEMPLOYMENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – They may well appeal to the public : ORATORS
2-down – They come in to clean up the papers : DAILIES
3-down – Commercial delegation gets right to enter : ADMISSION
4-down – Some time due to us, we hear : HOURS
5-down – Take too much fare : OVEREAT
6-down – Hold note on organ : EARMARK
7-down – Deep study : OCEANOGRAPHY
10-down – Deeply sad tendency in an audience : HEARTRENDING
15-down – He has a short service commission : ERRANDBOY
17-down – Tearful girl takes nothing up : MAUDLIN
18-down – Regular soldiers have to assume it : UNIFORM
19-down – Exclusive group with resting-place up-country : COTERIE
20-down – Throw out a proposed scheme : PROJECT
22-down – Once article for sale comes up, say how good it is : EXTOL

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22052 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22052 clues and answers were published on Fri 10 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22052 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Beast that can be chained : ECHIDNA
5-across – The main things lost : FLOTSAM
9-across – Thoroughly pleasant clothing before female’s 4 : COMPREHENSIVELY
10-across – Signs of knife in the back in ‘Vile Bodies’ : OBELI
11-across – Disease for a watery finish : DISTEMPER
12-across – Dry up and flag when about to speak : EVAPORATE
14-across – Sound out about name of punishment : PENAL
15-across – Now’s day for a drink : TODDY
16-across – Immediately resolved: no alternative in north Europe : THEREUPON
18-across – Inspiration saves heading for big fall : RAINSTORM
21-across – Tapestry shows missing yard : ARRAS
22-across – Well-dressed in bowls? : LIKEADOGSDINNER
23-across – Support provided bysettler : TRESTLE
24-across – Almost fool goblin command : CONTROL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Measure approximate to pound : ENCLOSE
2-down – Straying miners made chalk marks for workers to follow : HAMMERANDSICKLE
3-down – Many 7s in this kind of town : DORMITORY
4-down – Pest I found in a high degree : APHID
5-down – Nice where nurse can go in topless in France : FINISTERE
6-down – 1/6 of sheep? : OVINE
7-down – One backing non-runner : SLEEPINGPARTNER
8-down – Agreement held by right of office : MAYORAL
13-down – Arena where one marched without honour : ASTRODOME
14-down – Plundering pirate on day-shift : PREDATION
15-down – Sweet surprise to miss opening time : TARTLET
17-down – Place of inspiration fired boy to uphold right : NOSTRIL
19-down – Point to big 15’s initial lead : START
20-down – Air that’s more usually seen in cheerleaders : MUSIC

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22051 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22051 clues and answers were published on Thu 09 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22051 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Notes stammer when speaking to a debt dodger : DEFAULTER
6-across – Painter’s in bilge, we’re told : BOSCH
9-across – Climbs with limbs special to these insects : CLEGS
10-across – Tossed out this sort of clue about sport : AUTOCROSS
11-across – Military unit seeking engagement? Quite the opposite : DETACHMENT
12-across – Sad blow : BLUE
14-across – Not a shoemaker’s tool heard in making clever clogs : KNOWALL
15-across – Honourable, this Roman and others around : ETHICAL
17-across – Falsifier of records given fresh start – and still he cheats : DIDDLER
19-across – Bare all over the head? That’s his hair all over the bed! : SPOONER
20-across – Old writer having ritual drink in retreat : AMOS
22-across – Barrier to free speech? : IMPEDIMENT
25-across – Girl taking first puff without a smoke : PANATELLA
26-across – Slow passage of old ship on lake : LARGO
27-across – Stalky and gannet-like, except for head : REEDY
28-across – Flushed game in partly forested area of London : REDBRIDGE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Chanced getting a hat trick of diamonds : DICED
2-down – Naval unit, heading for Deal, say, makes port : FLEETWOOD
3-down – A club is one place out of order for this type : UNSOCIABLE
4-down – Handicap by turning right and heading back : TRAMMEL
5-down – Put up ally in Queen’s Suite : RETINUE
6-down – Blood money paid in Chicago : BUCK
7-down – That is low – could be lower : SCOWL
8-down – Largely low shelter restyled for this person : HOSTELLER
13-down – One has The Times ordered : CHRONICLER
14-down – Criminal traced to Leatherhead : KIDNAPPER
16-down – Exchanged views? That’s taken for granted! : CONFERRED
18-down – Rover plant : RAMBLER
19-down – Crew member checks mounting fear in different ways : STEWARD
21-down – Animal, one of many in the pound : OUNCE
23-down – Tea, say, lying on pit of stomach : THOLE
24-down – Tarry rope : STAY

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22050 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22050 clues and answers were published on Wed 08 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22050 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Tchaikovsky hero’s individual spirit : ONEGIN
5-across – Call, in poet’s translation, for one with jewelled ear : ETHIOP
8-across – Said solver’s treated amorously, not like Burns’s love : YORKIST
9-across – Put the frighteners on abandoned byre : COWSHED
11-across – The usual runs on banks from investments : STOCKSANDSHARES
12-across – In which pupil appears to flag : IRIS
13-across – Painter given money to turn fish-eater : TINTORETTO
17-across – Not owing a pound, retired into fitted kitchen : INTHEBLACK
18-across – Elemental spirit? : FIRE
20-across – Fish getting mad among non-alcoholic drinks by 4 6, they say : TANGLEWOODTALES
23-across – Poisonous yellow deformed stunted growth, after the Sun : RAGWORT
24-across – Abstraction to go with daylight : ROBBERY
25-across – Italian and German articles in silent flight : GLIDER
26-across – A month on the border produces chaos : MAYHEM

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Traction’s treatment for druggy : NARCOTIST
3-down – Composer’s connection between notes : GLINKA
4-down – Winkle with sodium compared with iodine on top of … : NATHANIEL
5-down – Spanish hero with a line to the Yard? : ELCID
6-down – Goldie embracing the Thunderer for the first part of 26 : HAWTHORN
7-down – Going into the red compared with 17? : OTHER
8-down – Small objects during the last programme with 21 6, they say : YESMINISTER
10-down – Author of computing system, a plaything for even half a TV outfit : DOSTOYEVSKY
14-down – What the spy in the cab said about cat, pig and sheep : TACHOGRAM
15-down – A lake you have drunk – reel with mirth : THIRLMERE
16-down – Factor caused by mirth arising during meals? : FEELCOLD
19-down – Initially short and fat from Australian beer : STUBBY
21-down – Boy goes on batting when uplifted : NIGEL
22-down – See 18 : WATER

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

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