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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22080 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22080 clues and answers were published on Wed 13 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22080 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Star playing Castro : CASTOR
5-across – Tree could be so creamy : SYCAMORE
9-across – Whips made by Iris Fitzgerald? : FLAGELLA
10-across – Pale start for sodium flares : LIGHTS
11-across – Trains miss out on delivery system : TRANSMISSION
13-across – Lion among the Romans : HERO
14-across – Constellation of corona and 17 : NORTHERN
17-across – 14 10 could, perhaps, be sailor stealing Aurora : BOREALIS
18-across – What is left of the spider? : REST
20-across – Essential extracts from the press : CONCENTRATES
23-across – Blue rooms out east : MOROSE
24-across – Unreasonable way of paying a poet? : PERVERSE
25-across – Athletes who cover the floor supply : GYMNASTS
26-across – Star cut back on light : POLLUX

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Wife leaves nincompoop for friend : ALLY
3-down – Line up for balancing act : TIGHTROPE
4-down – Give Browning, say, a new lease of life : RELOAD
5-down – I left Sparta in distress, waving flag : STARSANDSTRIPES
6-down – Cyril and Leo playing in coalmine : COLLIERY
7-down – He used sorcery – a mug’s game! : MAGUS
8-down – Return gets errors amended : RETROGRESS
12-down – Study of devils does me only good! : DEMONOLOGY
15-down – Difficult case for the rigidly orthodox : HARDSHELL
16-down – Amazing saves made by unsighted goalkeeper? : BLINDERS
19-down – Provoke tumult in high places : STIRUP
21-down – See 14 : CROWN
22-down – Jacob’s brother in the sauna : ESAU

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22079 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22079 clues and answers were published on Tue 12 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22079 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Where Jack meets Frank … : LONDON
6-across – … this, too, may be the end of the 7 : WATERLOO
9-across – See 17 : RANGER
10-across – Marriage – so flirtation’s a non-starter : ALLIANCE
11-across – House having seen off nous : COMMONSENSE
15-across – Cineraria needed, with something cold about to block nose, perhaps? : SENECIO
17-across – Silver was found under argent here : THELONE
18-across – Requesting 24, though deserving punch : ASKINGFORIT
22-across – Exercises to keep thin and on seafood diet : PLANKTON
23-across – See 4 : BRIDGE
24-across – Extremely inadequate point of entry for drink : VERMOUTH
25-across – See 5 : MORRIS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Criminal looted European city : TOLEDO
2-down – See 12 : DARLINGTON
3-down – Cattle offered in foreign currency? No thanks, you’ll get a dog : PEKINESE
4-down – Record in which unknown associate of Lloyd Webber almost reveals his role : LYRICIST
5-down – Game should belong to coxed crew for Oxford, perhaps? : NINEMENS
7-down – See 21 : LINE
8-down – Not entirely open, so closed : OVER
12-down – Early 7 required to keep 17’s words of affection to companion to the point : STOCKTONTO
13-down – I’ll say wow to free gold : CORRIDOR
14-down – Being worried, work longer hours? : RESTLESS
16-down – Snooker champion might possibly be described as a nutter : CRACKPOT
19-down – Litter the difference between England and Australia, perhaps : FARROW
20-down – Unscrupulous trader promoting big guns : SPIV
21-down – Musical sequence describing minor interval? : HAIR

This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22078 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22078 clues and answers were published on Mon 11 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22078 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – In piping form : TUBULAR
8-across – Athlete who’s out of place on the track : ALSORAN
10-across – Time and place : SECOND
11-across – Daisy enters city from the west : EASTERLY
12-across – Infantry base : FOOT
13-across – Reserve player : UNDERSTUDY
14-across – HMS London? : CAPITALSHIP
19-across – Modest just the same : UNAFFECTED
22-across – One-time or one time : ONCE
23-across – Monster known for its bull-headedness : MINOTAUR
24-across – Sailor posted as missing : ABSENT
25-across – A trip with passengers, we hear, makes profits : ACCRUES
26-across – Some degrees short of actual conflict? : COLDWAR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Its records make money : JUKEBOX
2-down – One drink that refreshes, but another will be a different matter : CUPOFTEA
3-down – Transport for student with a university final : LANDAU
4-down – Factory shutdowns designed to cure loss : CLOSURES
5-down – Second in importance : MOMENT
6-down – Homeless city female pleased to be settled in compartment : BAGLADY
9-down – Service chiefs? : HEADWAITERS
15-down – Says again that the treatise needs amending : ITERATES
16-down – Puritan joins club team : IRONSIDE
17-down – Remove all traces : UNHITCH
18-down – Shocking subject for play school : SCANDAL
20-down – Knocks down several storeys? : FLOORS
21-down – Find company in one churchman or another : DEACON

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22076 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22076 clues and answers were published on Fri 08 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22076 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – An animated film enthusiast is at a play : FANTASIA
9-across – The capital of Greece and the capital of Albania followed by the capital of Serbia : ATHENS
10-across – An embarrassing incident heard or observed : SEEN
11-across – Old artiste doing a turn in the grave? : LAIDTOREST
12-across – Incendiary material can finish a tree : NAPALM
14-across – Cigars with revolutionary origins : CHEROOTS
15-across – Rattle’s false alarm : STARTLE
17-across – Notices about Shine, say, or Truly, Madly, Deeply, for example : ADVERBS
20-across – Greek island importing clean dressed hides : CONCEALS
22-across – A woman in America or in another country : ABROAD
23-across – Odd sort of hand, etc : ANDSOFORTH
24-across – Snow used as fuel : COKE
25-across – Poised, at ease, inwardly calm : SEDATE
26-across – Covering: for example, covering northern bird : ENROBING

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Is flipping Tarzan right for the title role? : NAMEPART
2-down – Crazy about rock : STUN
3-down – Refuge for youth leader in a squalid district : ASYLUM
4-down – Dance about repeatedly on outskirts of Brazilian city : CARIOCA
5-down – Crazy, like The in the Guardian’s logo? : MASTHEAD
6-down – Circus performer – a heretic or revolutionary : CHARIOTEER
7-down – German and Swiss leader and French and Norwegian novelist : UNDSET
13-down – Throw in a religious medal : AFRICASTAR
16-down – Petrol for van costing nothing : LEADFREE
18-down – Bishop without polish : BLACKING
19-down – Moneylender receiving pence he takes unlawfully : USURPER
21-down – Cats in the pound? : OUNCES
22-down – A prop on land : ASHORE
24-down – Young reporter on a Caribbean island : CUBA

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22075 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22075 clues and answers were published on Thu 07 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22075 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – French company includes a man of religion, a clubman : CADDIE
4-across – Surface material seen by sailor when river runs back : TARMAC
9-across – Having little chance, like a horse that’s pulled up : OUTOFTHERUNNING
10-across – Dig around in English border : EDGING
11-across – No custom in this shop? : DUTYFREE
12-across – Crept somehow into the problem band : SPECTRUM
14-across – Firm sets out to show great care : COSSET
15-across – Transport mainly to promote joint : CARPUS
18-across – Delays and keeps at a distance : HOLDSOFF
21-across – Transmute mica unit into radioactive element : ACTINIUM
22-across – Splendid gathering in festivity with two unknowns : GALAXY
24-across – Unnecessary fuss about weather conditions in vessel : ASTORMINATEACUP
25-across – Money is required for repairing drains : DINARS
26-across – Paul’s respect : REVERE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – All solvers should be well-informed : CLUEDUP
2-down – Initially, driver has old banger in the washer : DHOBI
3-down – The whole unit’s starting to get in entire confusion : INTEGER
5-down – A question: an uncontrolled movement found in water? : AQUATIC
6-down – Displays cargo lists : MANIFESTS
7-down – Give up study on origin of life, say : CONCEDE
8-down – New Dome’s taking in London’s capital rarely : SELDOM
13-down – Something hackneyed under the island sign : CAPRICORN
16-down – Condemned? Not right, put on trial : ACCUSED
17-down – One hoping for a reduction : SLIMMER
18-down – Understanding being in the shade : HUMANE
19-down – Cricket side has a target – one with something left : LEGATEE
20-down – But the match date can be moved! : FIXTURE
23-down – Run out on holiday : LEAVE

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

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