Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21648 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21648 clues and answers were published on Tue 27 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21648 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Be attracted by single people, caddish types, and run away : TAKETOONESHEELS
9-across – Eric the writer’s a connection to follow : LINKLATER
10-across – Monsieur, the senior diplomat, starts being a snake : MAMBA
11-across – Fool’s gold inside article allocated accordingly : PRORATA
12-across – One-time great gets free : ATLARGE
13-across – Licence for virtual transport? : CAR
14-across – Blue died, a bit of an act : OBSCENE
17-across – Petty tyrant for taking letters : KINGLET
19-across – Greek character, member of Lloyd’s, gets backing for issue : EMANATE
22-across – Legal officer has no right to be sitting on a shield : SEJEANT
24-across – See 13 : NET
25-across – A French field with sailors: cancel the lesson : UNLEARN
26-across – Eastern spider : EARACHE
28-across – The orator sounds like a fool … : BURKE
29-across – … who, being without a clue, surprisingly was Dr Johnson’s friend : BEAUCLERK
30-across – Hare or 28 on Easter Island? : RESURRECTIONMAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The pen Melbourne used to have at his fingertips? : TELEPHONENUMBER
2-down – Comedian, no theologian, fencing : KENDO
3-down – Agriculture in early years? : TILLAGE
4-down – Stare down while striking on the dial : OUTFACE
5-down – Set-aside corn for currency? : EARMARK
6-down – Vermin-ridden place for meat where river rises : HAMELIN
7-down – Gipsy girl s-set in stone at first : ESMERALDA
8-down – Heated kiosk’s not suitable for the very wet : SOAKEDTOTHESKIN
15-down – With tiny hands, carried by foot? : SMALLARMS
16-down – See what’s on board : NOT
18-down – : ICE
20-down – A friend in the Golden River for the love of it? : AMATEUR
21-down – Promote the good female that’s raised the male in Paris : ENNOBLE
22-down – The Royal Scot beginning without directions : STEWART
23-down – Joe’s upset about wealthy town : JERICHO
27-down – Top 100 to 500 sheets? : CREAM

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21647 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21647 clues and answers were published on Mon 26 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21647 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Noticing nothing unusual in disguise : INCOGNITO
10-across – Muse takes a long time to identify : ERATO
11-across – Most woe-begotten pair : TWOSOME
12-across – Vessel that shoots over the waves : GUNBOAT
13-across – Thrash about the ring showing little craft : CANOE
14-across – Those that do may have a mortgage, though it’s hateful : ABHORRENT
16-across – James the First, as a naval officer : FIRSTLIEUTENANT
19-across – Lush crepe put round burial place : SEPULCHRE
21-across – It naturally beats peas and beans : PULSE
22-across – A foot of water in the diocese : SPONDEE
23-across – Uneasy feeling that a meal is badly cooked : MALAISE
24-across – Chap on base gets permit : ALLOW
25-across – I’m informed against and arraigned : IMPEACHED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Hand-to-hand combat? : FISTICUFFS
2-down – Vessel that crosses the bar? : SCHOONER
3-down – No notice is required should you wish to do it : IGNORE
4-down – Quote it in church : CITE
5-down – Log cabin brawl? : ROUGHHOUSE
6-down – What’s needed for developing wee runts? : WETNURSE
7-down – Take cover when one is after a gangster : CAPONE
8-down – Run away from a flash of lightning : BOLT
14-down – One in crime that upset school discipline : ARITHMETIC
15-down – Right actions required by house owners : TITLEDEEDS
17-down – Be patronising in speech and overbearing in argument : TALKDOWN
18-down – It’s OK, there’s no one left : ALLRIGHT
20-down – Badly off-colour : POORLY
21-down – A column I will condense into a short paragraph : PILLAR
22-down – Make ears burn : SEAR
23-down – For centuries they ignored America : MAPS

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21644 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21644 clues and answers were published on Thu 22 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21644 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Wise man conceals women’s article in Dorset : SWANAGE
5-across – Tries round about 0.001 in this sort of graph : SEMILOG
9-across – Properly arranged so as not to … : INORDER
10-across – … disconcert goalie with universal encomia : EULOGIA
11-across – Delicate, small and up-to-date navigational warning : LIGHTSHIP
12-across – Dull house has bad smell : HOHUM
13-across – Colossus represented by half-hearted artist : TITAN
15-across – People of the highest stand-ing execute artist : TOPDRAWER
17-across – People coming to Silver Lake for a show of animals : MENAGERIE
19-across – Park in former elevated railway and drive out : EXPEL
22-across – Land punt after it’s come back : TIBET
23-across – Frenchman injured Estonian in America : MINNESOTA
25-across – Everybody returned to interrupt noble heretic : LOLLARD
26-across – Redhead in store gets popular cut of meat : SIRLOIN
27-across – Jailer and knight tucking into Christmas fare : TURNKEY
28-across – Horse rider always covers slit in jacket : EVENTER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Cooking utensil for butcher in film scene : SKILLET
2-down – Doctor gripped by dread in the middle of … : AMONGST
3-down – … inspection of car : AUDIT
4-down – A couple of space travellers discover fungus : EARTHSTAR
5-down – Expensive marinade : STEEP
6-down – Man sheltering god’s draught animal : MALTHORSE
7-down – On a low hill, stages entertainment : LEGSHOW
8-down – Lightweight’s hurt in this sort of school : GAAMMAR
14-down – What H. King designed for flier : NIGHTHAWK
16-down – Mineral disturbed antelopes : PLEONASTE
17-down – Sailor gives lashings in support of ship’s officer : MATELOT
18-down – Lauren Bacall’s initial broadcast concerning a group of stars : NEBULAR
20-down – F1 champion entertained very old college head : PROVOST
21-down – Many a breadwinner is an apprentice : LEARNER
23-down – Starts to make all disciples look yonder with ardour : MADLY
24-down – Type of nest that’s unknown in lake : EYRIE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21643 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21643 clues and answers were published on Wed 21 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21643 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Hair preparation doctor uses after treatment : MOUSSE
5-across – Bright colour-sergeant, say, in the dance : FLAMENCO
9-across – Discipline one lout with art lesson in small group : TUTORIAL
10-across – Part of arrow left in battle : FLIGHT
11-across – Small cuts to be made in this theatrical performance? : MICROSURGERY
13-across – Dash! Biro’s broken : BRIO
14-across – Dealing with Heather by writing : HANDLING
17-across – Relatively active part of body takes in rest : LIVELIER
18-across – Some feeling returns in the water : NILE
20-across – Copper darts start possibly to be thrown in farce? : CUSTARDTARTS
23-across – Temporary dwelling by the city is hidden from view : LATENT
24-across – Make a killing in the service area : MASSACRE
25-across – Don’t break up so much, they say. It’s careless : RECKLESS
26-across – Dislike injection? : NEEDLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Work round unpleasant matter : OPUS
3-down – Worried monster company, in short, shown at wind up time? : STORMCONE
4-down – English man disregarding books? It’s to show clearly : EVINCE
5-down – Find difficulty in living in autumn on CD work : FALLONHARDTIMES
6-down – A fellow’s good at speaking, having plenty of brass : AFFLUENT
7-down – Making it go round Eastern monarch : EKING
8-down – Only cheer leader of team excitedly in an orderly way : COHERENTLY
12-down – Express link : ARTICULATE
15-down – The painting comes down to a head : LANDSCAPE
16-down – Salad dressing and no French wine for the bird : AIGRETTE
19-down – Can spin or twist : PRISON
21-down – Tug made from wood round the West : TWEAK
22-down – Artist in middle of Poly examination : ORAL

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21642 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21642 clues and answers were published on Tue 20 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21642 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Work out how to effect seizure of donjon? : KEEPFIT
5-across – Plain cake saw? : NOTICED
9-across – A month without choral work, he’d like the mob to rule : OCHLOCRAT
10-across – Snowman, as it were, in the French fashion, to work the other way : LEWIS
11-across – Pieces of second-hand quartz? : SAND
12-across – Novelist wrote bad things before residence in Tyneside : NEVILSHUTE
14-across – Bible translator, the first person in French and Latin city : JEROME
15-across – 19 or 11 and 24 : GEORGES
16-across – I get a drink when back to fighting Japanese : SAMURAI
18-across – Frail insect eating a single document : FLIMSY
20-across – She was Hectored, with memory suffering : ANDROMACHE
21-across – In the bathroom I try to skip : OMIT
24-across – See 10 : ELIOT
25-across – Seminarians from Breton town dividing gold and diamonds : ORDINANDS
26-across – Approval of archbishop being in hell? : PLAUDIT
27-across – What could possibly go with West London sky? I’ve no idea! : GODONLY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – See 27 : KNOWS
2-down – Improve and ruin English Channel, nearly : ENHANCE
3-down – Sweet and silly? : FOOL
4-down – 14, one of the 15, and 10’s other half were a menace, with me a bonnie mess inside … : THREEMENINABOAT
5-down – … see 22 : NOTHINGOFTHEDOG
6-down – In a supermarket the French film is invisible to the naked eye : TELESCOPIC
7-down – Pat’s constituent reportedly intimidated and suspended? : COWDUNG
8-down – They sleep rough, so dress is a problem : DOSSERS
13-down – Quadruped’s need of food: true? False : FOURFOOTED
16-down – Have a meal, eating fish, causing a disturbance : SHAKEUP
17-down – Island produced a change of air : MADEIRA
19-down – Writer of detective stories puts people in heaven : SIMENON
22-down – … not to mention their friend, awful fogy in hat, honest to God! : TOSAY
23-down – Eat up, girl! : ENID

This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.

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