Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22106 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22106 clues and answers were published on Mon 15 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22106 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Enthusiasts may wax it : LYRICAL
8-across – For punishment, keep in and cane, perhaps : PENANCE
10-across – Cartoon character it’s fashionable to watch : POPEYE
11-across – Tiptoe in order to get round robin, perhaps : PETITION
12-across – Rough deal for Helen’s mother : LEDA
13-across – Let us admit becoming excited : STIMULATED
14-across – One who is doubly alive, apparently : LIVINGBEING
19-across – Fed up, having received a grilling : BROWNEDOFF
22-across – Restrictions imposed for cup matches : TIES
23-across – Looking round for a letter? : CIRCULAR
24-across – Rush job? : CAREER
25-across – Misfortune for the other side : REVERSE
26-across – Dance apace : ONESTEP

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – They should be allowed to be themselves, we’re told : BYGONES
2-down – Class of good scholars left going over the same thing again? It’s not on : LITERATI
3-down – They’re not necessarily cut in pickle making : CAPERS
4-down – Taken by those who are sick and tired of work? : RESTCURE
5-down – It is said to aid concentration : MANTRA
6-down – Transport that gets up speed by putting one’s foot down : SCOOTER
9-down – It assists the driver to go up rather than down : SPRINGBOARD
15-down – Building Elsie and Ida regard as perfect : IDEALISE
16-down – Misplaced trust in a person unsuited for camp life : NATURIST
17-down – Is surrounded in bread crumbs and cooked : BRAISED
18-down – Soldiers gave up and retreated : RECEDED
20-down – Gate catch, perhaps : WICKET
21-down – City investment is about to be productive : FECUND

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22104 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22104 clues and answers were published on Fri 12 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22104 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Produce most favourable result, but stated grade description’s wrong! : BEFORTHEBEST
8-across – Come together for photo : CLOSEUP
9-across – Map is hard to roll : PLANISH
11-across – Having no fish, consumed prime sort of mollusc : OCTOPOD
12-across – Expressed private resentment : RANCOUR
13-across – Halfwits – stupid, backward and in the thick of things : MIDST
14-across – Urgent item broadcast across all news channels : IMMEDIATE
16-across – The man’s tucked in – fit to burst! : DEHISCENT
19-across – Vestment right for one 10 : COPER
21-across – High rock reportedly of importance to this resort : TORQUAY
23-across – Retrieve from water fish pulled back in with line : LANYARD
24-across – One to frown, that is, to lower if put differently : SCOWLER
25-across – Drink and endless crack following lecture : TEACHIN
26-across – Or that scorer, perhaps? : ORCHESTRATOR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Puffed out, having rowed across lake : BLOATED
2-down – Dingy hole has made one dreadfully pale – well out of it! : FLEAPIT
3-down – One’s shot – and shoot in quick succession : RAPIDFIRE
4-down – Explosive level produced from sulphur : HEPAR
5-down – Demolished loaf of bread in style : BRAINED
6-down – Turn love letters, first and last, over to writer : SPINOZA
7-down – Furnishes houses : ACCOMMODATES
10-down – Grandsire to exchange, following hard bargaining : HORSETRADING
15-down – He may wickedly leave you without a leg to stand on : MUTILATOR
17-down – Nurse seeking asylum : HARBOUR
18-down – Sing, disregarding a companion wanting silence : SQUELCH
19-down – Did lag do time previously in this connection? : CONTACT
20-down – He may play the game and break the law : POACHER
22-down – Battle of, say, Prestonpans : YPRES

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22103 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22103 clues and answers were published on Thu 11 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22103 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Potential extra-mural work? : ARTEX
4-across – Campanologist on holiday? I want a lift : DUMBBELL
8-across – Poetical scene with surprisingly chaste Lord Archer vegetating : THEOLDVICARAGE
10-across – Prophet with female backing: possibly I am he : NEHEMIAH
11-across – See 5 : BEARER
12-across – The Golden River is the way to sound perfumery : ORRISROOT
15-across – Writer retaining accountant is a nut : PECAN
17-across – Cries of triumph make a hash of defences : HAHAS
18-across – Luxurious Italian city during its retrogression : SYBARITIC
19-across – Artist, and so on, female : ETCHER
21-across – Communication about upper-class property : MESSUAGE
24-across – Deciding the price of a container? It’s being expensive : COSTINGAPACKET
25-across – Son – child with boy’s name – where rubber’s rubbed off : SKIDMARK
26-across – Put off before Araucaria’s to decide : DETER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – When some attention is given here to arrangement : ATTENTOTHREE
2-down – Three companions true form security: does it yet 22 1down in 9? : THECHURCH
3-down – Woody tissue is unknown – unknown to the gentleman from Paris : XYLEM
4-down – Non-U eats, the first with a plate getting in – they go another way : DEVIATORS
5-down – Nutmeg ground by mother to beadle : MACE
6-down – Say peremptorily: Put up your sword! Right, landlord : BARKEEPER
7-down – King’s rising provided in pub : LAGER
9-down – See 8 : GRANTCHESTER
13-down – Cuts speed to dodge being thought a criminal? : SUSPECTED
14-down – Pill, not half acid – hopefully it’s not with one’s mouth full : TABLETALK
16-down – Transport to the vet, in case there’s a serious illness : CATBASKET
20-down – See 2 : CLOCK
22-down – ____ and, if you win, you may sit : STAND
23-down – Girl with little money – and that obsolete : ANNA

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22102 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22102 clues and answers were published on Wed 10 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22102 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Bubbly cream may ease pain here? : ONTHEBOIL
10-across – Greatly admire ace illustrator : ADORE
11-across – A point made about old railway network needing to be up-to-date : ABREAST
12-across – Focus of Bach’s work that’s given minimal coverage? : GSTRING
13-across – Sally is girl needing a head transplant : RAID
14-across – A hiker out to get ride possibly – man in a cap? : KEIRHARDIE
15-across – Lager is drunk – port, too : ALGIERS
17-across – Official to feel unwell, having got hit about : BAILIFF
19-across – A street, ornate, in dull European city : MAASTRICHT
22-across – Senile state associated with repetition : GAGA
23-across – Sun disappearing? There’s a wind from the southwest : MONSOON
24-across – Attractive female given garland – learning to take the lead : LORELEI
26-across – It’s impracticable whichever way you look at it : NOTON
27-across – The people here when functioning in a series of social events : THESEASON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Crusading movement is back, with alarm spreading around in next to no time : MORALREARMAMENT
2-down – First-class Scottish town, one displaced by English : STERLING
3-down – Dairy product consumed by Muffet apparently : FETA
4-down – Description of Brutus by Caesar just before his death in bare feet? : BOOTLESS
5-down – Member in non-drinking organisation right off beer? : ALEGAR
6-down – Singers and actors given position on scale – all but no good : CASTRATI
7-down – Unoriginal dish includes fish? On the contrary : COPIED
8-down – Saluting a foe, one reintegrated into worldwide community : LEAGUEOFNATIONS
16-down – English paper boys to be without round in the near future Gadzooks! : EFTSOONS
17-down – Bound to see the end, but not the very end : BEHOLDEN
18-down – I beat incoming supporter up as quick as anything! : INAFLASH
20-down – One of the same clan with name cast in stone : AGNATE
21-down – Pub had food provided from the very start : INNATE
25-down – Regretted being offensive in speech : RUED

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22101 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22101 clues and answers were published on Tue 09 Jan 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22101 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Amount to hollow, dirty humour : COMEDY
4-across – Done a sin : AGREED
9-across – Suit, perhaps, reversed in card-game : BRAG
10-across – A sort of doss – endlessly halcyon period, allegedly : SCHOOLDAYS
11-across – A number jump over the dish : PAELLA
12-across – Exploding mine penetrates dressing and ointment : LINIMENT
13-across – Consequence of 24 seen here? : NEWSPRINT
15-across – Honest heart of masseur taken aback : TRUE
16-across – Tips about religion from puritan? : PRIG
17-across – Fully prepared to take chance on joints in the Home Counties : SHIPSHAPE
21-across – Exclamation about censor impounding king’s bird : COCKATOO
22-across – The ultimate brew: Murphy’s Original Stout : UTMOST
24-across – Renewed vigour making back bend : SECONDWIND
25-across – Bird’s mode of transport : RAIL
26-across – Hide worker’s coin : TANNER
27-across – Many material means of colouring : CRAYON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Waist or middle about to get floppy : CORSAGE
2-down – Tycoon’s about-turn in chimney : MOGUL
3-down – Paradise Lost – a source of gloom : DESPAIR
5-down – Worn for a reason : GROUND
6-down – Rounded figure to finish up publicity and hype, initially : ENDOMORPH
7-down – Senior member cheated out of cash : DOYENNE
8-down – Kind of hatpin or clip displayed round front of house : PHILANTHROPIS
14-down – Pan’s little chum in cropped fungus : STINKHORN
16-down – Undertaking to stick out : PROJECT
18-down – Turned over record beneath sack : PLUNDER
19-down – Die embracing one’s love : PASSION
20-down – Heavy stuff, say, with little marks coming up : STODGE
23-down – Girl retaining right to join : MARRY

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

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