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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21661 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21661 clues and answers were published on Wed 11 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21661 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Paul, lecturer to criminals? : CONDON
4-across – Paul, royally attired? : ROBESON
9-across – An element of ruin, ‘coz I’m reckless : ZIRCONIUM
10-across – Catcall of Woody Allen’s ex losing distant right : MIAOW
11-across – Pleasant accommodating Oriental relative : NIECE
12-across – All 9 I refined after many, many years : MILLENNIA
13-across – Karaoke’s ultimate My Way bound to show emo-tional understanding : EMPATHY
15-across – This should be comfortable for the solver? : SETTEE
17-across – Toothy comedian? : WISDOM
19-across – Worthy of reverence, as no longer so lazy? : BLESSED
22-across – Lords are poetical, longing over Paul : MCCARTNEY
24-across – The Spanish and French end could be spritely? : ELFIN
26-across – Shock one of me out loud : APPAL
27-across – Paul needs case – going abroad : GASCOIGNE
28-across – Implies everyone used gets abused : ALLUDES
29-across – First service and where not to put it when returned suggests this game : TENNIS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Paul verbally quotes a Bronte : CEZANNE
2-down – Bottle which transmits message : NERVE
3-down – None stood around and no one stood around : ONONESTOD
4-down – Discovers deep resonant sounds : RUMBLES
5-down – Sweet sweaty smell given honour : BOMBE
6-down – Lest a sin’s done without it? : STAINLESS
7-down – Paul, domestically enlightened? : NEWMAN
8-down – Consternation at sweet potatoes I’d brought up : DISMAY
14-down – The first moral we’re told : PRINCIPAL
16-down – Expression of sympathy yelled on course, thus : THEREFORE
18-down – Copes with the reason for our mortality? : MANAGES
19-down – Lout upset with his problems as a youth : BOYISH
20-down – Paul leads in trickery? : DANIELS
21-down – Paul’s friend, a horny beast? : IMPALA
23-down – Governed as sporting union governed : RULED
25-down – Dickens character portrayed as Andy Capp? : FAGIN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21660 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21660 clues and answers were published on Tue 10 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21660 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – An ancient monument – Bunthorne? Strike a light! : MEGALITH
9-across – Model going around off the ceiling : SOFFIT
10-across – Stern king concealed in a tree : BREECH
11-across – Turning revolutionary Unionist into a sheep stealer : MARAUDER
12-across – Where our responsibility lies : ONUS
13-across – Terrier worrying a minimalist going south : MILITIAMAN
15-across – Daisy and her young visiters : ASHFORD
16-across – and don’t have ______ yourself : ANYKIDS
18-across – I’d revert to piece-work pay? Tear it up! : DILACERATE
19-across – Gary Cooper’s refusal to work in Tyneside : NOPE
20-across – Plate holder making last run for it! : STAYBOLT
22-across – Kelly, the painter of family groups : GENERA
23-across – Strain of my recouping the job-seekers’ allowance : MELODY
24-across – Beware of cliques and their idées fixes! : MINDSETS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Want an easy time of it? I’d settle with bankers somehow : BEERANDSKITTLES
2-down – By which Hebraic tears joined Nebuchadnezzar’s irrigation system? : WATERSOFBABYLON
3-down – China clay fired with outright reverence : LITHOMARGE
4-down – Charity delivered to one’s doorstep? : THEMILK
5-down – Drug addict presumes to climb out of it : USER
6-down – See 4 : OFHUMANKINDNESS
7-down – Drinking partners witness’d in pairs, perhaps : WINESANDSPIRITS
14-down – No tender behind for Thomas! : TANKENGINE
17-down – Issues a quiet rebuttal as a diversion : PASTIME
21-down – Stone nothing cuts by the sound of it : ONYX

This crossword has in total 24 where 14 are across and 10 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21659 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21659 clues and answers were published on Mon 09 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21659 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – One who smashes cars – on the circuit? : BREAKER
8-across – One is supposed to look better for eating them : CARROTS
10-across – An infant rock-and-roller : CRADLE
11-across – One’s fiancée proposed : INTENDED
12-across – Great honour conferred on an Arab sultanate : OMAN
13-across – Generally helpful, he has the odd idea to abscond : AIDEDECAMP
14-across – Documents required when handing over vehicles : CONVEYANCES
19-across – A cut above the other ranks? : COMMISSION
22-across – They are driven from the river : TEES
23-across – Sort of story that may be touching? : HARDLUCK
24-across – Used in a sewing machine, it goes round a screw : THREAD
25-across – Discipline gained since conversion to church : SCIENCE
26-across – Touching sympathy : FEELING

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Are there three bank holidays for the rest of its crew? : TRIREME
2-down – Cool chap with energy for the dance : FANDANGO
3-down – Information a girl found in Switzerland : GENEVA
4-down – A mammoth beast disposed to stand and moo : MASTODON
5-down – Sarcastic driver, maybe, in charge : IRONIC
6-down – Masses of people moving about in the morning in the streets : STREAMS
9-down – Game for some drunken flirting? : TIDDLYWINKS
15-down – Explorer whose name lives on in America : VESPUCCI
16-down – Rent hall in order to mesmerise people : ENTHRALL
17-down – Not a subject put on in advance : MONARCH
18-down – Mother checks out but doesn’t leave : REMAINS
20-down – New demand put out of one’s mind : MADDEN
21-down – Subordinate gives name and number : NETHER

This crossword has in total 26 where 13 are across and 13 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21657 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21657 clues and answers were published on Fri 06 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21657 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Knife-point jerks in ring : SCALPEL
5-across – Popular provisions contained by vessel : INBOARD
9-across – Flag day gets scanty return : DROOP
10-across – Crowfoot’s caught in flannel : BUTTERCUP
11-across – Primary constellation with Aldebaran producing light source : CANDELABRA
12-across – Animals rush around : DEER
14-across – Rich person to crush island wrath : MILLIONAIRE
18-across – Metal casing on timer? No, I’m timer : CHRONOMETER
21-across – Dead of night? : LATE
22-across – Sort of flora – and quite decorative? : QUATREFOIL
25-across – In small boat travelling into unknown : INCOGNITO
26-across – Beast’s plea for silence? : DINGO
27-across – Fish or seer : GOLDEYE
28-across – Work at court on dead boarding : PLYWOOD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Win over deuces wild : SEDUCE
2-down – Swarm in a vault : ABOUND
3-down – Go for a brand new plant : PEPPERMINT
4-down – Sign for books without lines : LIBRA
5-down – Ban short term in charge : INTERDICT
6-down – Asked pound for vegetable : BEET
7-down – Attribute of alternating current and direct conversion : ACCREDIT
8-down – What’s done about bit left : DEPARTED
13-down – Grim looking under fly in soup : UNFRIENDLY
15-down – Row about Finnish wheeled vehicle : LIMOUSINE
16-down – Very hot and going up over day : SCALDING
17-down – Proper formality for Tory leader turned crazy : PROTOCOL
19-down – Carried round island : BORNEO
20-down – Salmon diet includes other foodstuff : ALMOND
23-down – Group left upholding nothing : TROOP
24-down – Fever should be OK in time : AGUE

This crossword has in total 30 where 14 are across and 16 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21656 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21656 clues and answers were published on Thu 05 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21656 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – It’s fairly hot, yet sometimes chilly, they say : REDPEPPER
10-across – Take out part-timer, a secretary bird : ERASE
11-across – The thinner first-class accent : ACETONE
12-across – Come to know the foreign set-up in 10’s development : REALISE
13-across – Mr Park? : HYDE
14-across – Adopt an attitude about powder overdose? It helps to get the message home : POSTALCODE
15-across – Macho character cried for Arthur, the poet : RIMBAUD
17-across – Put the case set in place : POSITED
19-across – Is Helen bound over to be free of obligation? : UNBEHOLDEN
22-across – Swift Nellie? : DEAN
23-across – The new free love bar in the Big Apple? : NOVELTY
24-across – Take advantage of a bold stroke : EXPLOIT
26-across – Char, they say, is the Playboy writer : SYNGE
27-across – Lewd clues, set to entrap 3 : LECHEROUS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Perfidious state when skin problem absorbs 3 : TREACHEROUSNESS
2-down – Swell finish to middle jump for rider : ADDENDUM
3-down – The Ideal woman’s circle : HERO
4-down – 3, cased by recidivist pickpockets, has gone pear-shaped : SPHEROID
5-down – Ironic nonsense may bring the house down : DRYROT
6-down – Charles, ‘e went crazy for a classical 3 : HERACLES
7-down – About a serious offence round a hazardous place : CASINO
8-down – For Sisyphus, it’s just the job : NEVERENDINGTASK
16-down – This 3 got cold in a surging sea : ACHILLES
17-down – Bearing gifts carelessly addressed? : PRESENCE
18-down – Maybe Rex and 3 at school found a dinosaur : THEROPOD
20-down – Sort of setter embracing 6? Stupid! : BOVINE
21-down – See a ‘oly confused Jesuit : LOYOLA
25-down – Look at hold up : PEEK

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

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