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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22143 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22143 clues and answers were published on Tue 27 Feb 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22143 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Dry, needing a beer badly? Then use your loaf : RYEBREAD
5-across – Young reporter holds her beautiful child : CHERUB
9-across – Amphibian exposes speech hindrance behind centre : BULLFROG
10-across – Poet found in waterless hole : DRYDEN
11-across – After a second, playwright embraces small old maid : SPINSTER
12-across – Mimic joins company at the pier : COPIER
14-across – Crook and son bound to be open all hours, perhaps? : CORNERSHOP
18-across – Ground for growing red oranges, maybe : ROSEGARDEN
22-across – Demon alcohol? : SPIRIT
23-across – Scrupulous person wraps a pound in an adhesive label : STICKLER
24-across – Type nearly all of it, Alice : ITALIC
25-across – Uncontrolled road movement means finally fooling around : SKIDDING
26-across – Restriction of free speech about money is a punishment : GATING
27-across – Pupil in drab jacket, being wrong age to cry : GREYCOAT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Being sturdy, go off to catch the bus : ROBUST
2-down – European Community taking refuge in cake : ECLAIR
3-down – Say no to judge with advantage : REFUSE
4-down – Committee meeting in heaven without dishonesty : ABOVEBOARD
6-down – Whoredom causes Henry to go round a lot : HARLOTRY
7-down – Stop being bloody soft! : REDLIGHT
8-down – Not known in cafe, then put out penniless : BANKRUPT
13-down – Does he give a guarantee when dressed in black? : UNDERTAKER
15-down – Compost getting covered up : DRESSING
16-down – Partisan could be an ambitious person : ASPIRANT
17-down – No 1 tin soldier standing up, firing : IGNITION
19-down – Look for Bill in a lazy way, with sourness : ACIDLY
20-down – White man’s in white robe and in love : ALBINO
21-down – Neither Orville nor Wilbur is wrong, we hear : WRIGHT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22142 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22142 clues and answers were published on Mon 26 Feb 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22142 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Muse about everything and that’s including work : CALLIOPE
5-across – Quite rigid about quarter-to-five finish : DEVOUR
9-across – Possibly puts on airs – not down to earth : UPSTAIRS
10-across – Appears in control of beasts : STEERS
11-across – Scattered picadors reassembled : SPORADIC
12-across – Picture little short of new business : FRESCO
14-across – Not educated poorly – restate that : ILLITERATE
18-across – This place was nothing out-of-the-way- : WASHINGTON
22-across – Paid patient attention : NURSED
23-across – Devotee of a single party after a time : IDOLATER
24-across – Not all would describe risk taking as a bloomer : IBERIS
25-across – To put in order for gear is no problem : ORGANISE
26-across – Query filling up bag, though it’s intended for packing : GASKET
27-across – A sticker for a conservationist group, admitting the 500 present : ADHERENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Swear about none. That’s the way! : COURSE
2-down – The French boy’s corrective punishment : LESSON
3-down – The first person forming a band in West Africa : IBADAN
4-down – Chaff by itself to ingest if idle : PERSIFLAGE
6-down – Royalty will accept the unknown luxury food he compels one to produce : EXTORTER
7-down – Remain too long because of support given : OVERSTAY
8-down – Concerned with shops’ returns : RESTORES
13-down – Being in a muddle, small daughter is told what to do : DISORDERED
15-down – Head of State travelling by air – so trendy : SWINGING
16-down – Those assuming moneylenders to be soft-hearted : USURPERS
17-down – Salvation for an individual in deep water? : LIFELINE
19-down – Many get permission to unite : CLEAVE
20-down – All out assault : STRIKE
21-down – Sartre’s letters giving rise to apprehension : ARREST

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22140 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22140 clues and answers were published on Fri 23 Feb 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22140 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Good lord, that’s Agatha taking a turn on the ski slope : CHRISTIE
5-across – Society at best is hilarious : SCREAM
9-across – Keeping up? You can by going round : BUOYANCY
10-across – Blues numbers, perhaps : EIGHTS
12-across – Do some of your best in goal : STING
13-across – River rodent in simple story : NARRATIVE
14-across – Financial agreement to let prize-winner’s money include half a dance : HIREPURCHASE
18-across – Captivate Sir Peter in the foyer : ENTRANCEHALL
21-across – Artisan’s counter-occupation with the judge’s seat : WORKBENCH
23-across – A girl almost ordinary : NORMA
24-across – Prohibition after the ancient Greek : THEBAN
25-across – A striped comic moseyed along : TRAIPSED
26-across – A look-alike, sometimes dead : RINGER
27-across – Brainy brother tucking into a healthy breakfast : CEREBRAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Play it again in snub for Picasso, say : CUBIST
2-down – Fleece that is very new : ROOKIE
3-down – A Nash girl depicted making imaginary pass : SHANGRILA
4-down – Peruvian stock too hot to handle : INCANDESCENT
6-down – A cockney’s mate in the country : CHINA
7-down – Exotic, in the improved state : ETHNICAL
8-down – Some hot stuff said to have assembled : MUSTERED
11-down – Hack, after a swig of beer, gets a punch : DRAUGHTHORSE
15-down – Caught the beast in drug plant : CELANDINE
16-down – Not potable, but are wet as can be : SEAWATER
17-down – Ship’s doctor takes time to fish : STURGEON
19-down – It removes, if soldiers are around : ERASER
20-down – Pass up the French composer : HANDEL
22-down – Beat interrupting live rap : BLAME

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22139 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22139 clues and answers were published on Thu 22 Feb 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22139 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Laments about flowers for virtuous statues : PLASTERSAINTS
10-across – Pulpit in Italian city nearly used by Salvation Army for dance : TAMBOURIN
11-across – Fish for birds : PERCH
12-across – Mr Average is a model following the ninth in Miss West’s family diagram… : MANIN
13-across – See 12 : THESTREET
14-across – … or on the American lady writer in German house, after applause : CLAPHAM
16-across – See 14 : OMNIBUS
18-across – Single but still on board : UNMATED
20-across – Fast runner doesn’t sound honest : CHEETAH
21-across – Georgian building, perhaps, with water laid on : BATHHOUSE
23-across – Public money for Ulysses? : GRANT
24-across – Cowboy’s home in the kitchen? : RANGE
25-across – Tommies with hearts and diamonds converted to religion : METHODISM
26-across – Return of theology coming in to symbolise temporarily : FORTHEPRESENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – French article: My dance, monsieur? to Herb : LEMONBALM
3-down – Make love at the golf club? : SPOON
4-down – Slip on slip? : ERRATUM
5-down – Oarsmen in trouble on the Ligurian Sea : SANREMO
6-down – Lack of ability to compete in composition : IMPOTENCE
7-down – See 22 : THREE
8-down – First time doctor up to being in charge of anaesthetists, periodically tabled : ATOMICNUMBERS
9-down – Question to the watch about hostile advance? : WHATISTHETIME
15-down – The birth of heraldry? : HATCHMENT
17-down – Unit of the Territorials with beasts on either side : BATTALION
19-down – Dickens’s Bentley driven initially on liquor up a tree : DRUMMLE
20-down – Cathedral rendering of 13 in Durham : CHESTER
22-down – 9 at 23 across 20 down? Little difference from other point under canvas : TENTO
23-down – Explanation for a topcoat : GLOSS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22138 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22138 clues and answers were published on Wed 21 Feb 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22138 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Foreman suffering reverse after third blow : OVERSEER
9-across – Shining land : ALIGHT
10-across – Fish for feeding inside : ORFE
11-across – Some military force in Africa, say : CONTINGENT
12-across – The optimist sees 9 at its end : TUNNEL
14-across – Unexpected deliveries of ceramic pieces : CHINAMEN
15-across – Onslaught is one of Laughton’s : ANAGRAM
17-across – First-class track at this London station : ARCHWAY
20-across – Introduced breakfast roll to various diets : BAPTISED
22-across – Caress one of the 8 : STROKE
23-across – It’s wicked in the dark : NIGHTLIGHT
24-across – Metallic knock on the left side : PINK
25-across – Position in which the fencer sounds in trouble! : QUARTE
26-across – Possibly a cover for Chesterfield : OVERCOAT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Set aside public place for ashes : OVERTURN
2-down – Undo reef-knot? : FREE
3-down – If Cato had one, was it blue? : PENCIL
4-down – A twisted position for a bird, a jinx by the sound of it : WRYNECK
5-down – Spirit of the clan? : FAMILIAR
6-down – One whose life is often dedicated : BIOGRAPHER
7-down – Reform the coppers : CHANGE
13-down – Evening dress, but without cuff links : NIGHTSHIRT
16-down – A priest may be such, or half a French one and you : ABSOLVER
18-down – State of the expanded Ark : ARKANSAS
19-down – They are taken slowly at the Proms : ADAGIOS
21-down – Spirit is playful, almost amusing : ANIMUS
22-down – One like Rover could be red : SETTER
24-down – Treaty ready for delivery, they say : PACT

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

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