Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21967 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21967 clues and answers were published on Thu 03 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21967 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Dark colour around the motorway is rock : PUMICE
4-across – Note, for example, increase and work out takings : CASHUP
9-across – Slight stain : SLUR
10-across – Having drunk tots, miscue and produce strain : SETTOMUSIC
11-across – Girl taking turn round island in slow movement : ADAGIO
12-across – Still, yen in exchange is superficially attractive : TINSELLY
13-across – Being initiated, somehow we think on : INTHEKNOW
15-across – Bring back tackle with young fish : DORY
16-across – Fairy in super Iolanthe production : PERI
17-across – Criticism follows when I replace you, they say, in the organisation : STRICTURE
21-across – Sack man, reversing position : DISPLACE
22-across – Travelling case for one taking part in dance : VALISE
24-across – Worked on tyres even – and exercised with weights : PUMPEDIRON
25-across – Drop a small weight : DRAM
26-across – Distribute gin, perhaps, by a ship : ASSIGN
27-across – Air point of view : ASPECT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Following father, Linda turns out a champion : PALADIN
2-down – Lady doctor’s rowdy celebration : MORAG
3-down – Hats : CASSOCK
5-down – Flourish with a bounce : ABOUND
6-down – Where one lives only on water? : HOUSEBOAT
7-down – Man, say, enters into wage pattern : PAISLEY
8-down – Up-to-the-minute condition of gallery’s work : STATEOFTHEART
14-down – Hearty dances? : HORNPIPES
16-down – Precise, if shapeless, formula produces something flowery : PRIMULA
18-down – Makes up in passages : INVENTS
19-down – Bird, not dead, to take on new life : RESTART
20-down – Pet to lick tail? : LAPDOG
23-down – Ridge was in front, for example, when climbing : LEDGE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21966 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21966 clues and answers were published on Wed 02 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21966 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

5-across – Many a dairymaid turns for lack of help : MYRIAD
6-across – Pitch, if strong, rates … : TARIFF
9-across – … as keen, with loud Verdi composition : FERVID
10-across – One’s post getting one a place in Egypt : ISMAILIA
11-across – Soft music for a duet : PAIR
12-across – Effect of using energy endlessly playing bingo : GREENHOUSE
13-across – Cure the internal lesion for fear of infection spreading : HEALTHSCARE
18-across – Aversion to competitive sport? : RACEHATRED
21-across – One is short of undies, possibly : NUDE
22-across – Charlotte’s victim gets no reward in the long run : MARATHON
23-across – Heartache suffered by girl over a soldier : ANGINA
24-across – Time for a short interval : SECOND
25-across – Wine can make one a most learned judge : PORTIA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – English leader makes a playwright cross : TRAVERSE
2-down – Toady given a small coin in wrought gold : LAPDOG
3-down – After damage bent coin is ringing true : HARMONIC
4-down – Between parties one feels the urge : LIBIDO
5-down – Woman in a frenzy, mad about another : MAENAD
7-down – Films to start you raving are insubstantial : FLIMSY
8-down – Two or three to a cell? … : TIMESHARING
14-down – … the spare in prison having been turned down with disgust … : LOATHING
15-down – … whence a vagabond makes his escape by an exit : RUNAGATE
16-down – A friend one is taking to the dance hall : PALAIS
17-down – Dig any odd part of 25 in Poland : GDYNIA
19-down – Dignitary of Roman Church about to get the chop before … : EXARCH
20-down – … senior priest keeping company with one of a lesser order : DEACON

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21965 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21965 clues and answers were published on Tue 01 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21965 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Despite the title, Falling Leaves is still a popular song : EVERGREEN
10-across – Vale in Provence : ADIEU
11-across – Recluse using Early English timer : EREMITE
12-across – Stir with black parsley, say : POTHERB
13-across – Exploits followed by Romans : ACTS
14-across – Author who wrote pricy composition : COPYWRITER
15-across – Crazy party or show : PORTRAY
17-across – A neat thief, but a noisy one : RUSTLER
19-across – Looking for hospital accommodation later : AFTERWARDS
22-across – Shock! Heads of State take up nationalisation : STUN
23-across – Trade vehicles : TRAFFIC
24-across – Find a hunter at sea : UNEARTH
26-across – Reason one lost at Oxford : CAUSE
27-across – Carmen, say, galvanised into action : OPERATION

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Where Gordon went for common operation? : GENERALPRACTICE
2-down – Maverick red steer’s a runaway : DESERTER
3-down – Nasty sounding mongrel in the citrus grove : UGLI
4-down – Show one mercy somehow : CEREMONY
5-down – Fashionable and exotic p-pansy : SNAPPY
6-down – US state with rolling russet meadows : PASTURES
7-down – Express train : DIRECT
8-down – 999, say – grinding job for a PC : NUMBERCRUNCHING
16-down – Thin crackers are fried : RAREFIED
17-down – Gunners issued malfunctioning arms : RADIUSES
18-down – I cut girl out of church ritual : LITURGIC
20-down – Where a storm leaves copper positive? : TEACUP
21-down – Moor in Venetian chorus : ANCHOR
25-down – Style of the Spanish and Anglo-Norman : ELAN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21964 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21964 clues and answers were published on Mon 31 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21964 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Draw a drink and beam : PORTRAY
5-across – Rather big girl – has to be dressed differently : LARGISH
10-across – Make a move to provide porridge : STIR
11-across – Calls to mind resolution about rally : RECOLLECTS
12-across – Caught a worker retiring on the quiet to have forty winks : CATNAP
13-across – Antigone reading may be getting the thumbs-down : NEGATION
14-across – The longest day : WEDNESDAY
16-across – Aims to live on! : MEANS
17-across – A most appealing French accent : ACUTE
19-across – The bloomer of a witless push-over : AMARYLLIS
23-across – Fruit coming by sea, a variety of apples : PEARMAIN
24-across – He wrote Gold, the Endless Gold : AUTHOR
26-across – The teenager making a scene and told off : ADOLESCENT
27-across – Blue as a result of getting a duck? : ANIL
28-across – The old king observing a sign of advancing age : GREYING
29-across – Journalists going before their boss get flattened! : PRESSED

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Shock at rogue’s twisting : OUTRAGE
3-down – Tedious routine sent up in an Italian place : TURIN
4-down – Relevant article for petty officers : APROPOS
6-down – State support in beer production : ALLEGE
7-down – A plentiful supply of excellent wood : GREATDEAL
8-down – Record collection many have : SETDOWN
9-down – Defamatory reporter responsible for devastated man’s cold anger : SCANDALMONGER
15-down – Greek character seen around at assembly, of course : NATURALLY
18-down – Some reached Dartmoor in the West Country : CHEDDAR
20-down – About the current height for power station equipment : REACTOR
21-down – Hero-worship can make one so idle! : IDOLISE
22-down – A minister’s standard issue : PARSON
25-down – Charges could well be dropped with some sorrow : TEARS

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21962 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21962 clues and answers were published on Fri 28 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21962 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Fairly big bird : DIPPER
5-across – Posh 10, awfully sour about another 10, as is a lovesick husband : UXORIOUS
9-across – Taught to toboggan round front part of train : SCHOOLED
10-across – Agent holds Kipling’s work to be slight : SKIMPY
11-across – The result of only a little light work? : EASYSOLUTION
13-across – In the Bernese Oberland a psychologist meets a German lady : FRAU
14-across – Entire sprinters’ centre led great comeback : INTEGRAL
17-across – Calming down, stopped taking dodgy Ecstasy with gin : QUIETING
18-across – Express toll for a little one? : NELL
20-across – It may be recognised as one of the French books, if one is skilful : IDENTIFIABLE
23-across – Flower scoffs free scoff : DERIDE
24-across – Two men set about a retired bounder over being such a pain : HEADACHE
25-across – Heath supported Arab leader, first off, it’s claimed : ASSERTED
26-across – These allow one to go without grub : EXEATS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – A longing to sew? No way! : ITCH
3-down – Virgin taking over interior design practice? : PROCEDURE
4-down – Gentleman’s pleasure? : RELISH
5-down – I hid ensuing dust after work: that’s nothing to write home about : UNDISTINGUISHED
6-down – Antediluvian order restricts single bar : OBSOLETE
7-down – Feodor’s work: it takes half the studio : IDIOT
8-down – Awfully blue about star admitting spin canêt be justified : UNPROVABLE
12-down – No reason for filtered coffee? : GROUNDLESS
15-down – William’s pal introduced ‘earty mixer : GINGERALE
16-down – Lifting one hat, toff becomes assiduous : DILIGENT
19-down – They say it’s a plait to wear down : ABRADE
21-down – Water overflowing the green : NAIVE
22-down – 2 fell head over heels for Bill : CHIT

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

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