Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22049 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22049 clues and answers were published on Tue 07 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22049 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Snooped round barrel central to exclusive function : PRIVATEDINNER
10-across – Street cry on Mars? : OLDIRON
11-across – Slags render one coarse : SCORIAE
12-across – Mill-bearing strands? : FLOSS
13-across – Vicar with hairstyle that’s burlesque : CHARIVARI
14-across – Sailor on edge, unable to take any more : ABRIM
16-across – Possibly infectious message passed round at church : CATCHABLE
18-across – Look back on skirt received by Ceres, perhaps : REMINISCE
19-across – Many a musical moderator : CHAIR
20-across – Co-ownership of paper jumper : TIMESHARE
23-across – Compare with boy holding thousand back : LIKEN
24-across – Get round to being pompous : OROTUND
25-across – Trump nets king; North leads: it’s an ideal situation : NIRVANA
26-across – Venice’s leaders take up heresy of shunning the flesh : VEGETARIANISM

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Player/broadcaster in love with endless Mardi Gras : RADIOGRAM
3-down – Man : VIRUS
4-down – Far from dominant mixer : TONIC
5-down – Break up book with gloomy oriental covering : DISMANTLE
6-down – Wandering into Chile in bygone age : NEOLITHIC
7-down – Lady Heath : ERICA
8-down – Fire from Tory Standard – put on a percentage : CONFLAGRATION
9-down – Correct mistake, one in narrow stretch of water : MEDITERRANEAN
15-down – Very small students with copper in the distance : MINISCULE
16-down – One with dire forebodings about oaf and artist : CASSANDRA
17-down – Nefarious ritual made Banquo’s head want substance : BLACKMASS
21-down – Animal of low bearing : MOOSE
22-down – Garden nuisance inducing boredom : ENNUI
23-down – Actress learning name : LOREN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22048 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22048 clues and answers were published on Mon 06 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22048 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Get ready for the Spring : CROUCH
4-across – A service attended by ancient head of Rugby : ARNOLD
9-across – Drink, knock it back as a starter : ASTI
10-across – Slit the envelope; it’s not a private communication : OPENLETTER
11-across – Mum, listen for a change! : SILENT
12-across – Press for a reduction? : DECREASE
13-across – Plea to one to be agreeable and provide financial backing : BEANANGEL
15-across – Mole has something to eat by river : PIER
16-across – Fine stuff for sitting on in Summer! : LAWN
17-across – Rigid line taken by hospital department : STRINGENT
21-across – Travelling after the game : ONSAFARI
22-across – A division of the church : SCHISM
24-across – Hope to stay involved in medical practice : OSTEOPATHY
25-across – Abraham Lincoln, to start with, was murdered : ABEL
26-across – Club for a field athlete : PUTTER
27-across – Fetching follower of the game : GUNDOG

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – I entered dream home – in Spain, suitably enough : CASTILE
2-down – Oil producer under pressure has a heart of stone : OLIVE
3-down – One of the toasts that may be offered with a meal : CROUTON
5-down – Churchgoers guarding priest’s remains : RELICS
6-down – Flying up and down the touchline? : ONTHEWING
7-down – A shelved medical assistant : DRESSER
8-down – No racehorse alive is one! : DEADCERTAINTY
14-down – He provides regular press handouts : NEWSAGENT
16-down – Queues seen on washing days? : LINESUP
18-down – Do you agree? I don’t believe it! : IASKYOU
19-down – It’s intended to encourage laying in a little money : NESTEGG
20-down – Bird in the bull-ring : MAGPIE
23-down – To save is difficult with nothing coming in : HOARD

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22046 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22046 clues and answers were published on Fri 03 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22046 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – The buzz from the pub? : LOCALCALL
10-across – Turn up at college in London for a pound : PULSE
11-across – Not easily disturbed when it leaves fair : EQUABLE
12-across – Seat unfinished in part of curve is antique : ARCHAIC
13-across – Fame record : NOTE
14-across – The prospect: chat mainly in flat : HORIZONTAL
15-across – English politician in match play : TEMPEST
17-across – Dish is hot; it could be addictive : HASHISH
19-across – Vast US rail trips to see painting, sculpture, etc : VISUALARTS
22-across – Move to produce mix in jug : STIR
23-across – Idol far off in America : FLORIDA
24-across – Glut in French Cheddar, say : ENGORGE
26-across – Pair missing from overture produce dodgy performance : ELUDE
27-across – Pelt the unknown dump in retreat : HIDEYHOLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Flue, for example? Certainly no petrol involved : ALTERNATIVEFUEL
2-down – Get used to the cat taking most of blame : ACCUSTOM
3-down – Staff society : CLUB
4-down – Understands fares : MAKESOUT
5-down – Chemical that’s partly chalk – a little soft : ALKALI
6-down – Soup with ices? Unusually plausible but wrong! : SPECIOUS
7-down – Easily influenced by one in the factory : PLIANT
8-down – I get points for writing and drawing : PENCILSHARPENER
16-down – One taking part in the Test : EXAMINEE
17-down – She had to set in order the impetuous ones : HOTHEADS
18-down – Cretin possibly raised doctor by calling on this : INTERCOM
20-down – Governor’s to turn back and avoid going round : SHOGUN
21-down – Invested with this, there’s little interest : APATHY
25-down – Artist’s year in part of India : GOYA

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22045 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22045 clues and answers were published on Thu 02 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22045 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Muck for not much brass : DIRTCHEAP
6-across – They say the setter’s going to 20 : ISLE
10-across – Make rifts in the loot? : SPOIL
11-across – In which the fare could have been bacon and mash? : HANSOMCAB
12-across – Polish invader of close turned back by Scottish painter : RAEBURN
13-across – Haydn’s first fanfare, a lost work — by Mozart : HAFFNER
14-across – Boast in reservoir with speech of highbrow from eternity? : SUPRATEMPORAL
17-across – Couldn’t one sleep a wink in the poet Thomson’s city? : DREADFULNIGHT
21-across – Georgia’s insured against bitterness : SUGARED
22-across – Initially desirable residence for study of china : DRESDEN
24-across – Gold stirred genius to keep time with saint : AUGUSTINE
25-across – Provide point to joke : EQUIP
26-across – What legislators eat? : DIET
27-across – The matter’s pressing and has come back in force : RESURGENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – What Delilah did to Samson? : DISTRESS
2-down – State how to harden solid form : RHODE
3-down – Worked out the odds of — dash it all — crude being put in barrel : CALCULATEDRISK
4-down – Improve the wretched English Channel no end : ENHANCE
5-down – Hot drink coming: fight! : PUNCHUP
7-down – Support walker on the other side’s ground? : SECONDLEG
8-down – First king of England or Great Britain in upside-down genealogy : EGBERT
9-down – Meeting for discussion by couple reportedly bears fruit : CONFERENCEPEAR
15-down – Teacher of physical education eagerly expected outside : PEDAGOGUE
16-down – Put up with boy or girl and don’t change : STANDPAT
18-down – Less reliable performer: thank God I have gone in : DODGIER
19-down – Strip blue berets, for example : UNDRESS
20-down – See 2 : ISLAND
23-down – Two for the old one : DEUCE

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22044 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22044 clues and answers were published on Wed 01 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22044 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Skilful strings play in tennis match : DOUBLESTOPPING
9-across – Unbroken part is healthy : WHOLESOME
10-across – Try to acquire outward skill in slang : ARGOT
11-across – Excerpt from Nazi bible put back in place : IBIZA
12-across – Appropriate length in a driving mechanism : PROPELLER
13-across – Not returning to Italy, perhaps, for key : TONALITY
14-across – Expedition to see sporting body in foreign attire : SAFARI
17-across – Makes financial provision on getting bad news about party : ENDOWS
19-across – Unusually daring, if demeaning : INFRADIG
22-across – Labourer having the power to act : OPERATIVE
24-across – Is to go back for a drink : PEPSI
25-across – Girl bringing back something worth having : TESSA
26-across – Let client exercise rational powers : INTELLECT
27-across – Cart-horse conducted to stable in theatre : ORCHESTRASTALL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Dejected after plucking birds with one’s teeth? : DOWNINTHEMOUTH
2-down – Ideally perfect note on new piano : UTOPIAN
3-down – Gladly permit to remain uncultivated : LIEFALLOW
4-down – Oliver, for example, getting Ruth to relent : SHOWPITY
5-down – State alternative to Ronay : OREGON
6-down – Tree with flat surface : PLANE
7-down – Boy taking novice a flower : NIGELLA
8-down – Its report should stimulate athletic progress : STARTINGPISTOL
15-down – Citadel producing a harvest on poor soil : ACROPOLIS
16-down – He hopes to make a profit from vines replanted on hill : INVESTOR
18-down – One who straightens furniture : DRESSER
20-down – Hollow tear produced by certain flies : DIPTERA
21-down – Object when time signal is put out for birds : PIPITS
23-down – Confound with a blow : ABASH

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

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