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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22086 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22086 clues and answers were published on Wed 20 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22086 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Prestige of cat having swallowed half the cheese : CACHET
4-across – Bones, not leeks, cooked : SKELETON
9-across – I’m awkward – and in record time : INEPT
10-across – Tatty cabin connected with a lot of plant study : BOTANICAL
11-across – Gregarious prisoners? : CHAINGANG
12-across – Golfer tucked into offal doubtfully : FALDO
13-across – Naughtiness in bed is remedied with codeine : DISOBEDIENCE
17-across – Smoothing bodice and skirt for formal wear : EVENINGDRESS
20-across – Exposed headless pigeon : OUTER
21-across – US writer moved round on her what? : HAWTHORNE
23-across – Panel smash dry jar with gun : GRANDJURY
24-across – Award for Ulysses : GRANT
25-across – He makes an offer more loving and gentle : TENDERER
26-across – Folk-tale preserved, for example, in advance : LEGEND

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Agree to give money to the party, we hear : COINCIDE
2-down – Crack about investor sent back to the Home Counties : CREVASSE
3-down – Each depleted football team wasted away : EATEN
5-down – Illustrator redraws Yankee with a wet rag : KATEGREENAWAY
6-down – Dismal as a crocodile? : LONGFACED
7-down – Try Calvin Klein tops made in yarn : TACKLE
8-down – Lady Hamilton’s hold? : NELSON
10-down – For residents getting on socks outside university : BOARDINGHOUSE
14-down – Noted economist, a lady, cuts into card-game : BEVERIDGE
15-down – Remove excess fat from a salmon’s head in class : DEGREASE
16-down – A lock-up Edward maintained : ASSERTED
18-down – Procured branch on treetop : BOUGHT
19-down – Separate tax : STRAIN
22-down – Tory politician keeps silver in the shade : HAGUE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22085 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22085 clues and answers were published on Tue 19 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22085 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Prosecuting officer and copper brought into service in capital city : DAMASCUS
5-across – Villain, twisted inside, about to become a sailor : LASCAR
9-across – Poles separated? There’s clue in that! : ANTIPODES
11-across – Semi-star seen in leaf of climbing plant : BETEL
12-across – French writer makes rural dean, MA, frightfully cross : ANDREMALRAUX
15-across – What that enemy harbours? : HATE
16-across – Club being given new temporary accommodation makes one unhappy : DISCONTENT
18-across – Jovial ruler has first spin in charge : ROLLICKING
19-across – Dissolute type with nothing to gain? : WINO
21-across – Man, long quiet, getting drunk and boastful : MAGNILOQUENT
24-across – Instruction prescribing -ize brings a rumpus : NOISE
25-across – The missus doubly offering support in bed : DUTCHWIFE
26-across – Unreliable date, yes? Not ‘e! : STEADY
27-across – Decorate set of holy books with gold title at front : ORNAMENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Adult, on the outside mostly adroit, is handicapped in some way : DEAF
2-down – Flier given sort of test on helicopter initially : MOTH
3-down – Not prone to be among students up in English : SUPINE
4-down – Exploit admitted by erstwhile England bowler creates drama : UNDERMILKWOOD
6-down – A medic attending university student, six-footer not confined to bed : AMBULANT
7-down – A hundred eat pig cooked in old-time English dish : COTTAGEPIE
8-down – A sign of something wrong in family member? Rest is the answer : RELAXATION
10-down – Rattle cut in half by silicon? : SEMICONDUCTOR
13-down – Some porn he circulated could account for sexual arousal : PHEROMONES
14-down – Tiny POW? May be observed in a cave : STALAGMITE
17-down – Achieved aim to include six in share-out : DIVIDEND
20-down – Three separate articles submitted by woman : ANTHEA
22-down – Knave in a suit and I have brief dance : JIVE
23-down – Relish turning roof of shelter through 90 degrees : ZEST

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22084 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22084 clues and answers were published on Mon 18 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22084 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Note a lenient punishment in school? : JUSTAFEWLINES
10-across – Right to enter guilty plea : ADMISSION
11-across – Dance having beat and vigour : TANGO
12-across – Turns the tables : LISTS
13-across – Some repast eaten little by little? : PIECEMEAL
14-across – Enamelled cutter : INCISOR
16-across – Commuter’s place in life? : STATION
18-across – Very big chap who went down to a stone : GOLIATH
20-across – A name is confused – result of this? : AMNESIA
21-across – Surcharge on a photograph : OVERPRINT
23-across – Impressive, though not entirely legal : AWFUL
24-across – Raise rent for Turkish inn : SERAI
25-across – Standing order’s established in this system : HIERARCHY
26-across – Question put by examiners? Fancy that! : WHATDOYOUKNOW

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Insensitive to air : UNMUSICAL
3-down – Essays in examinations : TESTS
4-down – Member of the seal family : FLIPPER
5-down – Is curious about seven world phenomena : WONDERS
6-down – Generally all at sea : INTHEMAIN
7-down – Irene may appear when he’s around : ERNIE
8-down – Show jumper seen in the gym : VAULTINGHORSE
9-down – In which one should certainly hear a pin drop : BOWLINGALLEYS
15-down – Spaniel to disturb Siamese cat : SEALPOINT
17-down – Proved to be Latin topics of a sort : IPSOFACTO
19-down – Male getting unusually high on love? Ah, well! : HEIGHHO
20-down – Redcoat dressed up in 1930s’ style : ARTDECO
22-down – Huge cost of electrical safety precaution : EARTH
23-down – A person is surprised if you take him this : ABACK

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22082 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22082 clues and answers were published on Fri 15 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22082 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Unforeseen encounter which made someone late? : FATALACCIDENT
10-across – Picking up pink paper I found in the heather : LIFTING
11-across – Pass food which is cool : COLDISH
12-across – Man following company rules : CODES
13-across – Cooked Pie and Preserve article by old gourmet : EPICUREAN
14-across – Wanders in Cairo, vestments in hand : ROVES
16-across – Epic price change leads to precarious situation : PRECIPICE
18-across – Cry of cat, possibly at a curlew? : CATERWAUL
19-across – Blame one left in pot : GUILT
20-across – Detail man to work with plates : LAMINATED
23-across – Inexperienced but about to enter the information : GREEN
24-across – Travel guide? : COURIER
25-across – Like wise man said, you must go in calm : ASSUAGE
26-across – Holiday wear drunk MD rushes to bar : BERMUDASHORTS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Help two fellows inside at about six to make statement on oath : AFFIDAVIT
3-down – I’m held up by a fool, which is wrong : AMISS
4-down – Hang without using the top corner : ANGLE
5-down – Black Rock Ravine in colour : COCHINEAL
6-down – Job centre brought up employment doing sanitary work : DELOUSING
7-down – East Jerusalem uprising causes row : NOISE
8-down – One currently empowered to make time for you? : ELECTRICCLOCK
9-down – Used to provide a transport system down under? : CHANNELTUNNEL
15-down – Element being endlessly strong, returned it with little hesitation : STRONTIUM
16-down – For each journalist finally admitted getting drunk : PLASTERED
17-down – Travelling east, I can rave about it : ITINERANT
21-down – Timid person to think about love : MOUSE
22-down – Slipped up, having article held by rings : DIALS
23-down – Not married, must go without relish : GUSTO

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22081 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22081 clues and answers were published on Thu 14 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22081 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Wine presented by female is in the right hand : RHENISH
5-across – Maybe spelled wrong, claim about silver : MAGICAL
9-across – Crazed family gang drinks gin cocktail on board – making more room for gin? : MAGNIFYINGGLASS
10-across – Piece of Beethoven in the Choral : NINTH
11-across – Secretary of State once identifying royal vocalist : KISSINGER
12-across – Hair swept back? Mr Rusbridger must be in love : ENAMOURED
14-across – Covering of 100 decibels? : CLOUD
15-across – Beg for a degree while in prison? : CADGE
16-across – Record first conducted without leader of choir going barefoot : DISCALCED
18-across – Article by poet Robert gets a penalty: a paper devil can’t shock where there’s no 11 without the Queen : THEGRAVES
21-across – I face disaster without that famous fidd-ler fellow in the old song where there’s no 11 without the Queen : AFINE
22-across – See 18 : ANDPRIVATEPLACE
23-across – Extra something for the choir to wear, say? : SURPLUS
24-across – Make as if to nurse in advance? : PRETEND

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – See 21 : ROMANCE
2-down – Contrive to include an alcoholic’s trouble : ENGINEANDTENDER
3-down – Girl on stray horse – is she from Tralee? : IRISHROSE
4-down – How to get into a hospital? Turn up as a free marketeer : HAYEK
5-down – Polygon’s property of : MANYSIDES
6-down – £1 for one performance by tenor : GIGLI
7-down – Effect of global warming to conflict with a game he played : CHANGEOFCLIMATE
8-down – The hots – very hot – must be given a gloss : LUSTRED
13-down – Vicar, keeping what he got from the Co-op, has American resurrected : RRDIVIVUS
14-down – Criticise pupil for making jelly : CRABAPPLE
15-down – Don’t talk to the girl with the sword : CUTLASS
17-down – Don’t go off where you’re thrown in – hang onto the millstream : DEEPEND
19-down – Right to range in the country : RURAL
20-down – Pay attention and beg, in the proper place, quietly : SITUP

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

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