Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21871 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21871 clues and answers were published on Thu 13 Apr 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21871 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Talk to dancers on golf course? : ADDRESSTHEBALL
8-across – Do a dance : TWIST
9-across – Take every precaution to measure out potassium content : MAKESURE
11-across – Small man backing boss on sacred lotus : NELUMBO
12-across – Very important mines worked by a novice : SEMINAL
13-across – See about men getting fruit : MELON
15-across – Puzzling about giant mice : ENIGMATIC
17-across – Not paid to be changeable? : UNSETTLED
20-across – Smooth journalists : PRESS
21-across – He doubts if unruly Picts would accept church : SCEPTIC
23-across – Somehow air tele-workshop : ATELIER
25-across – Hunt round before going in to this point : HEREUNTO
26-across – Heath, for example, with a Spaniard? : EGDON
27-across – Quickest way out of Lot’s wife’s reach : ASTHECROWFLIES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Do something unpremeditated, ie consult map, perhaps : ACTONIMPULSE
2-down – Exercise that may bore : DRILL
3-down – Site meant for small café! : ESTAMINET
4-down – VIP and certain individuals going about a long time : SOMEONE
5-down – Japanese artist’s last sketch – agreed America gets one : HEKUSAI
6-down – Lazy woman gets the brush : BESOM
7-down – Eyeglasses with no letter ‘g’? : LORGNETTE
10-down – Girl’s extra message about ring found in Australia : ALICESPRINGS
14-down – They pay attention to auditors : LISTENERS
16-down – Feel a palm becoming a Canadian symbol : MAPLELEAF
18-down – In a few words, it’s conical shaped : LACONIC
19-down – A bid, perhaps, to get loo regulated as a game : DIABOLO
22-down – Some debate ethical choice for consumers : TEETH
24-down – Kind of lemur living in dripping forests : INDRI

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21870 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21870 clues and answers were published on Wed 12 Apr 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21870 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – See 14 : OUTOFMIND
10-across – Marry at a church which is on strike? : HITCH
11-across – No use getting upset after soldier retreats from fire : IGNEOUS
12-across – Literary wizard produces acceleration plus 50 per cent, vulgarly : GANDALF
13-across – Top man on commercial : HEAD
14-across – What the eye doesn’t see … – blind and crazy? : OUTOFSIGHT
15-across – Turn to numbers 1 and 50 – that should serve a purpose : UTENSIL
17-across – Moses fled after God started mad dispersal : GRANDMA
19-across – Booty left by destroyer of game? : SPOILSPORT
22-across – Where Henri IV succeeded the king in the bush? : IVRY
23-across – West African capital slightly changed … : YYOUNDE
24-across – … from the vowel sounds we make : YOUANDI
26-across – Consonantal sound of North American girl : NASAL
27-across – Weapon holder, a Southern term for an amphibian : SWORDFROG

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Exit 16 to require no explanation : GOWITHOUTSAYING
2-down – The theatrical profession includes one from long ago : STONEAGE
3-down – Hairstyle for a revolutionary : AFRO
4-down – Piece of hair of the dog left under the buss : KISSCURL
5-down – A gadabout before 10 goes slowly : ADAGIO
6-down – Pacific area, home: hunt round it first : CHINASEA
7-down – Former minister: odd he didn’t finish : STRANG
8-down – Article in the Financial Times, sadly working in guineas, shows itês all over : THEFATLADYSINGS
16-down – Like an ass holding 10 oddly like a mouse? : SILENTLY
17-down – Warning to streetwalkers of Spooner’s fatty glutinous mess : GARDYLOO
18-down – Hence come waves without water round an opening : DAVENTRY
20-down – Player with piece of wood gets up to holding a French one : OBOIST
21-down – Request for quiet let? : PLEASE
25-down – Somewhat run-down ruin : UNDO

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21869 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21869 clues and answers were published on Tue 11 Apr 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21869 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Trendy expert attending a conference in Africa : INDABA
4-across – Keep mum quiet? That’s debatable on reflection! : SHTOOM
9-across – Usual procedure for dealing with complaints? : GENERALPRACTICE
10-across – Exclude number of Mozart’s works to put in another composer : BARTOK
11-across – Dramatic representation of year with poll involved : ROLEPLAY
12-across – Formal dress what’s needed – I bet casual is out : BLACKTIE
14-across – Main source of accommodation for retired people : MASTER
15-across – See 3 : STITCH
18-across – A US president joins king wearing graduate scarf : BABUSHKA
21-across – Sixes are significant – one seen at Lord’s? : VISCOUNT
22-across – Three consecutive letters with purpose to reduce tension? : DEFUSE
24-across – Angles straightened out in nurse’s bedside manner : HOSPITALCORNERS
25-across – In favour of international European currency : FORINT
26-across – Behaving unethically in morning exam : AMORAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Face changing sides? Sick about that – it’s a slippery slope : ICEFALL
2-down – Was resident being rude turning up temperature? : DWELT
3-down – Clear space and test out long piece of needlework : BLANKET
5-down – Poor actor having real trouble in Dutch venue : HAARLEM
6-down – They’re in deep, taking month over English version of opera) : OCTOPUSES
7-down – Type of handicraft club adopting computer facility : MECRAME
8-down – Particularly thin boxes, extremely fragile : SPARSE
13-down – Race up and act friskily : CUTACAPER
16-down – Go into decline as a result of dock strike? : TAILOFF
17-down – American source of extraterrestrial transmissions : HOUSTON
18-down – Serious conflict caused by temper – time left to intervene? : BATTLE
19-down – See 14 : BEDROOM
20-down – One’s likely to hover over half-demolished street in part of Hull : KESTREL
23-down – Someone demanding penalty is not so thick : FINER

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21868 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21868 clues and answers were published on Mon 10 Apr 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21868 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Get off for a match : ALIGHT
5-across – Growth of conciliation rejected by workers – a bad sign : EVILOMEN
9-across – He should know how to press a suit : ADVOCATE
10-across – Slip by the Spanish church feature : ELAPSE
11-across – What an MP stands for : CONSTITUENCY
13-across – List of courses for chaps at university : MENU
14-across – Blocking – the road? : INTHEWAY
17-across – Father returns with skiers out for social activity : APRESSKI
18-across – Change the course of a revolution : TURN
20-across – A staged production : ASSEMBLYLINE
23-across – Possibly meant to join number around the fire : MANTEL
24-across – Pat his arm in error : IRISHMAN
25-across – He’ll bear out it’s a drinking place : BEERHALL
26-across – It joins in operations : SUTURE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Swimming pool with nothing under cover : LIDO
3-down – A charity worth fighting for : GOODCAUSE
4-down – Coaches coaches : TRAINS
5-down – Current account : ELECTRICITYBILL
6-down – It may be put on disc : IDENTITY
7-down – Gold blend tea in spout : ORATE
8-down – Academic sinecures? : EASYCHAIRS
12-down – Main part of a book taken by travellers : SEAPASSAGE
15-down – Bound to be performed by the ballet dancer : ENTRECHAT
16-down – She is a beautiful Italian : ISABELLA
19-down – Understand it’s describing figures below ten : DIGITS
21-down – Record a stage direction : ENTER
22-down – Young fishwife who survived Henry VIII : PARR

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21866 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21866 clues and answers were published on Fri 07 Apr 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21866 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Rover in boat, a dugout : GADABOUT
5-across – Grassy meadow provided pasture : LEAFED
9-across – It’s right by the map : EASTWARD
10-across – 20s’ music : SCORES
12-across – Is breaking polar ice not relevant to the Americas? : NEOTROPICAL
15-across – In to complain: customer with bone : INCUS
17-across – US policy reversal in SALT 2 : ABOUTFACE
18-across – Mixed soil to earth plant : HORSETAIL
19-across – Saddle horse – gelding to break in : RIDGE
20-across – A shade drunk after a tumbler : ROLLERBLIND
24-across – Gnawn perch caught in river tossed back : ERODED
25-across – Supervised 17 without incident : OVERSEEN
26-across – Lack of depth to soil : DEARTH
27-across – Pots with rest may produce kicks : PROTESTS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The go-ahead to settle with cash : GREENLIGHT
2-down – About to break record, fancied runner put out of his stride : DISCONCERT
3-down – Jack Ketch’s security device, perhaps : BOWER
4-down – No encore for such a performance? That’s gross! : UNREPEATABLE
6-down – Non-stop flight? : ESCALATOR
7-down – Which sex? See document : FORM
8-down – Con accepts hush money : DOSH
11-down – Gambling group bar, say, teenage type : SCHOOLLEAVER
13-down – Swans, odd dipper included, lost with shore birds : SANDPIPERS
14-down – Number of deniers, perhaps, depending on the silk? : DEFENDANTS
16-down – Drug found in very quick medical check : SMEARTEST
21-down – Elizabeth without Queen? Wear that? : BERET
22-down – Drop out of sight : BEAD
23-down – Put up first nine letters for a foreign one : IOTA

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

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