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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22072 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22072 clues and answers were published on Mon 04 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22072 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – It may reveal hidden charges : MINEDETECTOR
8-across – Troops didn’t finish the course : REGIMEN
9-across – Dishing out for a party : SHINDIG
11-across – Case Len resolved to clear up : CLEANSE
12-across – Penguin noted by Beethoven : EMPEROR
13-across – Publish and I p-prosecute! : ISSUE
14-across – A precaution against deflation : SPARETYRE
16-across – Breeding place for germs, perhaps : INCUBATOR
19-across – French military cover : SHAKO
21-across – They count for nothing : NOUGHTS
23-across – Put in – or shut out : ENCLOSE
24-across – Desert people engaged in fierce competition : RATRACE
25-across – Unusual spite shown by the French in a letter : EPISTLE
26-across – Now is the time to use this : PRESENTTENSE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Attractive bars : MAGNETS
2-down – A man who’s proposed? : NOMINEE
3-down – Desert inn providing meal service : DINNERSET
4-down – Experience state interference : TASTE
5-down – He’s game : CRIPPLE
6-down – Regular soldier? : ORDERLY
7-down – I can report it improved, doctor : PRACTITIONER
10-down – It was heaven on earth while it lasted : GARDENOFEDEN
15-down – People engaged in a welcome correspondence : AGREEMENT
17-down – Chip bar? : COUNTER
18-down – Acts as executor – some teachers want to : BEHEADS
19-down – Notices deployed military group : SECTION
20-down – Preacher makes pleas to convert : APOSTLE
22-down – Wild goose yarn? : SKEIN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22070 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22070 clues and answers were published on Fri 01 Dec 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22070 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Where, not before time, accounts may be kept : BEHINDTHECLOCK
9-across – Spiritual guides in the film industry : DIRECTORS
10-across – Sudden impulse to produce cotton fabric : DENIM
11-across – False notions in article on Lido scheme : IDOLA
12-across – Eglantine tumbling in clumsy fashion : INELEGANT
13-across – Wild clan raid on pillar of the church : CARDINAL
14-across – Live on others when drunk : SPONGE
17-across – Bird allowed inside pub : LINNET
19-across – Instrument for getting firm out of rotten mess : CORNETTO
22-across – Expression silver worker used for brawling woman : TERMAGANT
24-across – Dickensian dance : TWIST
25-across – Took a picture showing animal in Africa : OKAPI
26-across – Snaps done badly may have medicinal effect : SENNAPODS
27-across – Rough sketch showing an officer? : GENERALOUTLINE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Unsuccessful editor’s complaint? : BADCIRCULATION
2-down – Bar members taking time out for shelter : HARBOUR
3-down – Fruit providing a delicious beverage in the orient : NECTARINE
4-down – Hot redhead in local : TROPICAL
5-down – Time to help make a stern choice : EASTER
6-down – Wild dog found in the French beaver’s home : LODGE
7-down – To hold back is not unusual in a murderer : CONTAIN
8-down – Personal predilection in art or diet : AMATTEROFTASTE
15-down – Keen physical education entrant, perhaps : PENETRANT
16-down – Percentage paid for brown colour in a flower : CONTANGO
18-down – Manage to rise above tear about having to tell a tale : NARRATE
20-down – Journey to phoney oil town : TRIPOLI
21-down – Artisan endlessly turning out decorative inlay work : TARSIA
23-down – Priestly garb worn by French friend at church : AMICE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22069 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22069 clues and answers were published on Thu 30 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22069 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Unfortunately, Iris faced having skin punctured : SCARIFIED
10-across – Almost half 9 rash infects one heartless writer : OSCAR
11-across – Leader of performers longed to see cast : PITCHED
12-across – 10 21’s alter ego, a six-footer, protecting tree : MELMOTH
13-across – Get to know king and knight : LEARN
14-across – Matter-of-fact British leader with a twitch accepts ridicule : PRAGMATIC
16-across – Will the mug taking poison lose life or has spa treatment revealed 10 21’s supposed last words? : THISWALLPAPERIS
19-across – See 16 : KILLINGME
21-across – See 10 : WILDE
22-across – See 16 : ONEOFUS
23-across – See 16 : HASTOGO
24-across – Murderer keeps right of way mark : CAIRN
25-across – Elite bout unlikely in dungeon : OUBLIETTE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – OK, I spotlit muddle in Old German scheme : OSTPOLITIK
2-down – One supports old meat supplier for beef : PASTRAMI
3-down – Companion introduced to the right kind of plant : LICHEN
4-down – Stopped working and fixed when touring Spain : DIED
5-down – Water swallowed very quietly in the throat : ADAMSAPPLE
6-down – Trollop helping to capture unknown Frenchman : DOLLYMOP
7-down – Portray a Tory publicist : ACTOUT
8-down – Major Russian port loses financial backer : ARCH
14-down – Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element : PHLOGISTON
15-down – Cooked sloes and cedar nuts : CASSEROLED
17-down – Endlessly rap fellows in squadrons for producing odours : WHIFFING
18-down – Abroad in posh car or public launches : ROLLOUTS
20-down – Tell a story to eminent scientist : LIEBIG
21-down – Aeronautical term to pick up about wood : WASHIN
22-down – Sea creature on show in Windsor Castle : ORCA
23-down – Goddess makes man survive : HEBE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22068 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22068 clues and answers were published on Wed 29 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22068 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – It’s nationalised, as everyone knows : PUBLIC
4-across – It’s not the French weapon that will get you in : PASSWORD
9-across – Gumption to the English is futile : NOUSE
10-across – Tricorn may be knocked into : COCKEDHAT
11-across – Schubert’s work distant by a mile – fishy business : TROUTFARM
12-across – It signifies time with stress : TENSE
13-across – Managing directors on vintage car : RUNNINGBOARD
17-across – Militaristic slogan of dandy with dog by the fire? : BLOODANDIRON
20-across – Group in music, etc to regroup : OCTET
21-across – Greeting the jewel that came down from heaven : HAILSTONE
23-across – Should there be a profit … I beg your pardon? : COMEAGAIN
24-across – Chess expert to be found in lodge : GRAND
25-across – See 1 : PROPERTY
26-across – See 24 : MASTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Joke on cruet being upset in flat : PUNCTURE
2-down – Reticent, fight with heavyweight having been telescoped : BOUTONNE
3-down – I find the majority of the planet silly : INEPT
5-down – See 6 : ACCOMMODATION
6-down – Covered loan with warden : SHELTERED
7-down – Where fingers are available : ONHAND
8-down – The royal princess starts to vacillate : DITHER
10-down – Clue to earth producing second thoughts? : CHANGEOFHEART
14-down – I’m going to a tantalising person to be made uncomfortable : ILLATEASE
15-down – Go back into being out-and-out haughty : ARROGANT
16-down – Produce one that will stop reducing the language? : ENGENDER
18-down – Financial restrictions on the proletariat are old hat : MOBCAP
19-down – Say to the Post Office what was said to the Guards as fast as before : ATEMPO
22-down – Brand without the T that comes before it : SIGMA

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22067 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22067 clues and answers were published on Tue 28 Nov 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22067 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Beef embargo on opening English plant : COWBANE
5-across – Aircraft may be carrying one map : BIPLANE
9-across – Music performance by Felix in knitted coat : TOCCATA
10-across – Keeping one in parental affection : STORAGE
11-across – Flower of Perdition – point made by an archbishop : HELLEBORE
12-across – Race of mercenary Anglo-Saxons : ARYAN
13-across – Atkinson on war training : ROWAN
15-across – A party bloomer – providing mineral! : ALABASTER
17-across – Taking a gorgeous creature to love retreat is cheating : DISHONEST
19-across – Disabled without one, turn to a modern mode of communication : EMAIL
22-across – Like the bilge in a Shaw play? : AWASH
23-across – Selection starts with freezing out of Livingstone, making you want to throw up : SICKENING
25-across – He sells last lot included for development : REALTOR
26-across – Love racing for a change – that’s life! : ORGANIC
27-across – Humble dwelling following fashion – no ostentation : MODESTY
28-across – Enter failure against article by student out of time : ETERNAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Rye fieldsman? : CATCHER
2-down – Cause of fading light in Ireland? : WICKLOW
3-down – Stone entrance : AGATE
4-down – Unusually able to speak in great detail : ELABORATE
5-down – Count on the piano : BASIE
6-down – Spread 3 on shore : PROPAGATE
7-down – Shrink from the mention of a record collector : ANALYST
8-down – She’s among the lean or spare type : ELEANOR
14-down – Mobile phones, yet recently introduced : NEOPHYTES
16-down – Take choir trip to Jerusalem, perhaps : ARTICHOKE
17-down – Drawing weight needs raising help first : DIAGRAM
18-down – Grant given to Kent for approaching the Channel? : SEAWARD
20-down – Half light in the river where there’s a bridge : AVIGNON
21-down – A soldier in a pub – it stands to reason : LOGICAL
23-down – Stop about right? On the contrary : STRAY
24-down – Bore heard with enthusiasm : EAGRE

This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.

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