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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22150 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22150 clues and answers were published on Wed 07 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22150 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – If definite, the recital is fixed : ARTICLE
5-across – Bishop, opposition leader, sculptor and composer : BORODIN
10-across – Seafront centre hairstyle : AFRO
11-across – Everyone enters fish trade? Nonsense! : CODSWALLOP
12-across – Woven fabric for tailored suits with fine finish : TISSUE
13-across – Misfortune, having one pound not readily converted into cash : ILLIQUID
14-across – Type of sketch taken from thin album : THUMBNAIL
16-across – Beastly sound? No sound! : NEIGH
17-across – A team apart : ASIDE
19-across – East wind leading to death or removal of rock, perhaps : STEADYING
23-across – Social worker entering factory with a scarf covering head and shoulders : MANTILLA
24-across – Alarm about Northern Ireland tax : TOCSIN
26-across – Nicely critical – as if studio would be worried : FASTIDIOUS
27-across – Debatable topic broached after beastly noise : MOOT
28-across – Make wavy cover for something straight each day : PERDIEM
29-across – Symposium presented by a Greek character in 10 : TEACHIN

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Disreputable : RAFFISH
3-down – Islamic leader studies religious art : ICONS
4-down – Hannibal the Carthaginian’s last stand in church : LECTERN
6-down – Writer gets nothing right, fortunately : ORWELL
7-down – Unruly boy I quell in a roundabout way : OBLIQUELY
8-down – A household chore that is decreasing : IRONING
9-down – Runner or dramatist in play : ADMINISTRATOR
15-down – Chewed over half-warmed fish outside gallery : MEDITATED
18-down – Stately bird – for example, one brought up in Dorset : SWANAGE
20-down – A performer in taking part is terrible : ARTISTE
21-down – Capital letters in biro in a novel : NAIROBI
22-down – Solemn undertaking to abstain from drinking a toast : PLEDGE
25-down – The Beano is amusing : COMIC

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22149 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22149 clues and answers were published on Tue 06 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22149 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Mark setting the standard : MODEL
4-across – Wrong leader’s taken on top dog : AIREDALE
8-across – Bad lot? Bad job! : NASTYBITOFWORK
10-across – Partner wearing girdle with ribbing : RALLYING
11-across – Chief meeting Queen’s man with bow : ARCHER
12-across – Spike tears dreadfully : LACERATES
15-across – Character going to seed : GRAIN
17-across – Heartless visitor saw round to our delight : GUSTO
18-across – Baseball player in pants and T-shirt : SHORTSTOP
19-across – Hack covers page with sensational headline : SPLASH
21-across – Clever daily means to fix the buzzer : FLYPAPER
24-across – Set opening clue, working to mislead : PUTONEACROSSON
25-across – Period of ignorance without the Sun and Times? : DARKAGES
26-across – Girl to coordinate going on stage : DAISY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – With oil streaming out, this prospector is made : MINERALOGIST
2-down – Forces abroad, for example : DISPLACES
3-down – Pull in here, set down and bid farewell : LAYBY
4-down – Turns away from little green man, hair standing on end : ALIENATES
5-down – Pound from base limit bouncing back to upper limit : ROOF
6-down – Blue ? Tory out and out : DOWNRIGHT
7-down – Extract of poplar, chestnut, box and conifer : LARCH
9-down – Quality of the candid camera photo? : TRANSPARENCY
13-down – Return to gold standard and mint, say : ROOTSTOCK
14-down – Pair of cords to go with brogues, perhaps : SHOELACES
16-down – A new wine list introduced ahead of starters : ANTIPASTI
20-down – Girl, if topless, would create an atmosphere : LAURA
22-down – Some encouragement, you say, is in vain : PROUD
23-down – Ice in the drink? : BERG

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22148 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22148 clues and answers were published on Mon 05 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22148 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Gin before opening may let down an actor : TRAPDOOR
9-across – Sounds confused : HUBBUB
10-across – Sappers in control of cavalry : REIN
11-across – Too old for love, but no longer minding : PASTCARING
12-across – These islands provide a free love style : FAEROE
14-across – Removing the sediment from port : DREDGING
15-across – Drama writer barred for the very young : PLAYPEN
17-across – Moving passage from Tristan : TRANSIT
20-across – Hole-in-the-middle mint : BULLSEYE
22-across – Improve one’s bust line? : UPLIFT
23-across – About to be beaten, but don’t turn back! : FACEDEFEAT
24-across – Young bird lacking the knowledge to be fashionable : CHIC
25-across – No big shot in the gunnery world : PELLET
26-across – Grannies making money : EARNINGS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A quick drop for one waiting for opening time : FREEFALL
2-down – A lifetime of bridge : SPAN
3-down – Left in carriage and pair : COUPLE
4-down – Chair or soft settle : PRESIDE
5-down – Summary punishment for a boneheaded listener? : THICKEAR
6-down – Primitive sailor of marked individuality : ABORIGINAL
7-down – Give up and go to bed : TURNIN
13-down – What workers give to the Queen for Palace parties? : ROYALJELLY
16-down – They can get hot weather : ELEMENTS
18-down – Poach refining process : INFRINGE
19-down – Refreshed sheep tear about : RENEWED
21-down – Philosopher passing through American Customs : USAGES
22-down – Recovery vessel to put out first : UPTURN
24-down – Murphy sliced a golf shot : CHIP

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22146 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22146 clues and answers were published on Fri 02 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22146 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Vision of rook in flight : CASTLEINTHEAIR
9-across – Headgear not worn by the Roundheads? : FLATCAP
10-across – Can take girl out in car : CORTINA
11-across – Competitors in narrow lane : ENTRY
12-across – It is eaten from this Paget dish : SPAGHETTI
13-across – Logical as imitation stone? : SCAGLIOLA
14-across – Folding seat is commonly shaky : DICKY
15-across – Frenchman with point to make good : RENEW
17-across – One vet’s staged lockout of cattle : LIVESTOCK
20-across – Police officer who makes a dramatic call : INSPECTOR
22-across – Praise former setback : EXTOL
23-across – He dispossesses oriental conqueror : EVICTOR
24-across – He concentrated on poetry with one awful stigma : IMAGIST
25-across – Negligible amount needed to put hope into dancer, perhaps : DROPINTHEOCEAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – It gives no grounds for certain fees being changed : COFFEESTRAINER
2-down – Has performed star turn in holy writing : SHASTRA
3-down – It might bring boxer or flautist unexpected success : LUCKYBLOW
4-down – Motorway up over ring of thick paint : IMPASTO
5-down – Musical piece about animal wearing strange coat : TOCCATA
6-down – Land on planet : EARTH
7-down – Silly of Intelligence Department when one’s to be back in charge : IDIOTIC
8-down – Perhaps many like self to be hidden from outsiders? : FAMILYSKELETON
14-down – Reckless person’s turn of speed on bad road : DESPERADO
16-down – Less pleasant to set out in flurry of rain : NASTIER
17-down – Alter edited article pertaining to Roman church : LATERAN
18-down – Go away with king in glossy coat : VARNISH
19-down – Not in row following sketch : OUTLINE
21-down – Poets thrown out of bar : ESTOP

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22145 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22145 clues and answers were published on Thu 01 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22145 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – His written grammar was exemplary: spoken, less tasteful : FOWLER
5-across – The Camptown plum puller whose stock has points taken off? : DEHORNER
9-across – Nimrod dished avec vin blanc et champignons : CHASSEUR
10-across – One for sorrow among the chattering classes : MAGPIE
11-across – Cracked Matterhorn with Roman Catholic artillery : TRENCHMORTAR
13-across – Rugby training switched in the country : PERU
14-across – No chicken with turnip? : OLDTIMER
17-across – Carelessly applying make-up and hairstyle : SLAPBANG
18-across – Lister’s work applying oxygen to suppuration : OPUS
20-across – Dressing so flashily no use in new penthouse suite development : UPTOTHENINES
23-across – Meeting one’s fate in Switzerland? O, fate! : CLOTHO
24-across – Herald of St Swithun’s reign might ordain priest for sacrifice : RAINDROP
25-across – Alter ego literally left without memory ?- it’s the drink! : HYDROMEL
26-across – Officer contributing to Dolly Varden”s ignominy : ENSIGN

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Two revolutionaries gamely throwing projectiles from here : OCHE
3-down – Bridge players’ call to judgement? : LASTTRUMP
4-down – Thatcher as Red Queen absorbing energy : REEDER
5-down – One might show contrition for auntie’s bloomers, perhaps, and glee with ITC error : DIRECTORGENERAL
6-down – So with Mom”s apple pie, weed out what makes me mad : HOMEMADE
7-down – He’s OK : ROGER
8-down – Morecambe and Wise, we hear, sag from this blooming characterisation : ERICACEOUS
12-down – Faced paralysis, so possibly left bypass hell without beginning : BELLSPALSY
15-down – Cromwell’s cavalry fell, as it were : IRONSIDES
16-down – Some queue outside here to displace Archimedes? : BATHROOM
19-down – Donkey, for one, bearing trap in Tyneside : ENGINE
21-down – Swimmer more steamed up in Stepney : OTTER
22-down – Chinese family worth £100,000? : TONG

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

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