Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21961 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21961 clues and answers were published on Thu 27 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21961 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Copy company used in recording feature of Mass : CAPECOD
5-across – Misbehaving is close to the bone : OSSICLE
9-across – When small change keeps standard reached in judo rising? : ASCENDANT
10-across – Irrational number in sequence – pi? : RATIO
11-across – Support offered 14’s neighbour : PROP
12-across – Vet taking gamble on film script : SCREENPLAY
14-across – Rugby player – a pro? : HOOKER
15-across – Seriously concerned with how decimals work, close to innumerate : INTENSE
16-across – Car designer has problem computing storage space, mostly : BUGATTI
18-across – Hooked by meat, tucked in : HAMATE
20-across – Sketches of Cambridge : FOOTLIGHTS
21-across – One part of the opera : OPUS
24-across – Sound version of material taped : AUDIO
25-across – How baleen is processed? : WHALEBONE
26-across – Too much time consumed with obvious intentions : OVERTLY
27-across – English deserter harboured by family getting a bit horny? : KERATIN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Get to grips with illegal parking restriction : CLAMP
2-down – Choose to finish early – unexpectedly cool bit of wind : PICCOLO
3-down – Rabbit on in company, vacuously : CONY
4-down – Had reservations about using this route : DUALCARRIAGEWAY
5-down – Correctly ascertaining one’s railway connections? : ONTHERIGHTTRACK
6-down – Arrange release from prison sentence when winter finishes : SPRINGTIME
7-down – Some Spaniards are at a family gathering : CATALAN
8-down – It’s a bit creepy to celebrate jumped-up local inhabitants : ECOTYPE
13-down – Quickly dismiss satirical item, badly let down, perhaps? : SKITTLEOUT
16-down – Bill endangered this species? Expert takes a look : BUFFALO
17-down – Tynesider, say, must turn up or fail at some stage : GEORDIE
19-down – Warning about interest rate that helps plant survive : TAPROOT
22-down – Twitcher’s almost last in hide to see birds flying : SKEIN
23-down – Put up with undisguised chatting : BEAR

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21960 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21960 clues and answers were published on Wed 26 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21960 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Last year’s winner not skating – he’s got a job : OFFICEHOLDER
8-across – Work to amuse the audience could be an illusion : OPTICAL
9-across – Emphatically he who could be Flemish… : HIMSELF
11-across – … was successful about greeting in pseudo-French, not Flemish : WALLOON
12-across – River of silence, with name among the nameless : SHANNON
13-across – Grandma pregnant? She must be kidding! : NANNY
14-across – Resident’s home with Dickens’s leader and servant : INDWELLER
16-across – Application for cooking meat in church council : TREATMENT
19-across – Nick a second duck : STEAL
21-across – I – my husband also – need break with continuity : BUSMANS
23-across – See 21 : HOLIDAY
24-across – Ancient city time insufficient, I’m afraid, among single characters at liberty: we purchase only seconds : THEBEST
25-across – See 24 : AREFREE
26-across – See 24 : THINGSINLIFE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Bunting from church door to lancet window : ORTOLAN
2-down – See 22 : FACTORY
3-down – It appears in the spring of an antelope in a moving start : CELANDINE
4-down – Laughs like dry moats : HAHAS
5-down – Shearers’ party hit the hay : LAMBALE
6-down – 10 with real potential never finishing : ETERNAL
7-down – Bookmaker required? I doubt it : YOUWANTTOBET
10-down – Playtime for piano among stringed instruments, final heats : FUNERALPYRES
15-down – Wife and child I leave in agricultural building : DUTCHBARN
17-down – He slept, wrongly, with Scots girl : ELSPETH
18-down – Following notes in following part-exchange : TRADEIN
19-down – Romance in a long dress was said to have finished Mozart : SALIERI
20-down – Back at last – steed wouldn’t start : ENDORSE
22-down – What makes widows at 10 good enough? : SATIS

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21959 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21959 clues and answers were published on Tue 25 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21959 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – The cure that’s ‘Buy now, pay later!’ – their failing : RETAILTHERAPY
10-across – Birdie surpassed by Coleridge’s handicap … : ALBATROSS
11-across – … he’s right by his sacred river : RALPH
12-across – Beer from the cask, Vassili! : KVASS
13-across – Baseball player in knickers and vest : SHORTSTOP
14-across – Time Ed Lear went off his rocker : TREADLE
16-across – Movement of cattle is turning south : KINESIS
18-across – Call for melon in the freezer : CRYOGEN
20-across – Society leaving partisan destroyed port : TRAPANI
21-across – The old revel in the black bat’s reign : NIGHTRULE
23-across – So Milton’s pair of sirens left without choice : BLEST
24-across – Old type of road stone : METAL
25-across – I’m one Mr Hulot, on as a substitute : IMITATION
26-across – I might make allowances, possibly starting now. God! My pennies! : SPENDINGMONEY

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Nobbling race outsider could be right by me : EMBRACERY
3-down – Lowest female staff members : ALTOS
4-down – Give the once-over once or twice? : LOOKSEE
5-down – Has hit support for the supplicant : HASSOCK
6-down – Land of royal double trouble. : RURITANIA
7-down – Director of experimental : PILOT
8-down – Friedman’s forces restoring credit to make money : MARKETECONOMY
9-down – 1’s acolyte seconds that passion, perhaps : SHOPASSISTANT
15-down – Like libretto’s language, not a prescription to stir the heart : DIGITALIN
17-down – Bad septicaemia killing last two in the continuum : SPACETIME
19-down – Sea creatures Athena utilised by extraction : NAUTILI
20-down – Putting one’s quarry at bay, say! : TREEING
22-down – Gathering everything together under protest, starts to rise : GETUP
23-down – Could this be a negative bender? : BEANO

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21958 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21958 clues and answers were published on Mon 24 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21958 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Extremely fine and dandy : EXQUISITE
10-across – The alternative holds the alternative : OTHER
11-across – Area inside American bases : DIAMOND
12-across – Increase the pace : STEPOUT
13-across – Marks or pounds? : NOTES
14-across – They may click at dances : CASTANETS
16-across – Comedian met fame awkwardly, finally destroyed : MADEMINCEMEATOF
19-across – Has a fresh egg in Lent, regardless : NEGLIGENT
21-across – A brace affected gait : STRUT
22-across – Chap unfit to work on a tough paper : MANILLA
23-across – Many a girl in the city : CHESTER
24-across – Show disdain for bad puns about royalty : SPURN
25-across – One will expect high tolls in such buildings : CAMPANILI

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Commanding individuals with important roles to play : LEADINGMEN
2-down – Settled without recourse to law : SQUATTED
3-down – Turns four vessels round : PIVOTS
4-down – No matter to object to : MIND
5-down – Prettiness in a constantly recurring form : PERSISTENT
6-down – House completed but not bought : HOMEMADE
7-down – Man in the seat of power : THRONE
8-down – Courage needed on icy roads : GRIT
14-down – A vehicle drawn up in accordance with the law : CONVEYANCE
15-down – Fairy tales may give security for children, say : SAFETYRAIL
17-down – Mother queueing for Inter-City travel? : MAINLINE
18-down – A scorpion may do so and still be offensive : TURNTAIL
20-down – One in the biology class is very bright : GENIUS
21-down – Understand woodcutter made playground equipment : SEESAW
22-down – Possibly hums something sentimental : MUSH
23-down – Gay settlement? : CAMP

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21956 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21956 clues and answers were published on Fri 21 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21956 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Climber accepts a period without a sweetheart : VALENTINE
10-across – Smoker in lead is sound : PLUMB
11-across – Confound laid-back star working to capture record : NONPLUS
12-across – Polish plate and check for sign of approval : PLAUDIT
13-across – It could have an accidental consequence : NOTE
14-across – Famous craft worker in the old country : SANTAMARIA
16-across – Criticise a guerrilla for dashing style : PANACHE
17-across – Hanging a writer to make an impression : PENDENT
19-across – Solution to shyness frees communications in the main : ICEBREAKER
22-across – Animal detailed in portico : STOA
24-across – Wild animal’s desire : RAMPANT
25-across – Linesman half-heartedly spread pigment : MELANIN
26-across – Bridge player left the game : SPORT
27-across – A prankster’s sick initially, being nervous : ILLATEASE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Plant devastated vigneron’s empire : EVENINGPRIMROSE
2-down – Support heavyweight sea creatures : PLANKTON
3-down – One does not start a fire : INGLE
4-down – Petroleum producer offers inducements well : OILSHALE
5-down – Leading serviceman in store had complete authority : DESPOT
6-down – Flavouring and cooking man’s tripe : SPEARMINT
7-down – Split up left-wing union : SUNDER
8-down – Remove a rope in Gorky, say : ABSTRACTPAINTER
15-down – Damage network with the removal of church composer : SCARLATTI
17-down – Reformed pleb keeps papers of introduction : PREAMBLE
18-down – Scholar entertains Pole or other European : ESTONIAN
20-down – In the West Country without having to hitch : EXMOOR
21-down – A trail blazed in the sky : ALTAIR
23-down – In Northumberland it’s said to be cheerful : BLYTH

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

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