Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22172 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22172 clues and answers were published on Mon 02 Apr 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22172 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Rift created by a broken promise? : BREACH
4-across – Fights are things dogs enjoy : SCRAPS
9-across – Worker right to be bitter sometimes : BEER
10-across – All union members finished business for the day : CLOSEDSHOP
11-across – An inventor having no team for back-up : EDISON
12-across – It comes under a general vote in the Commons : DIVISION
13-across – Implement for eating meat paste? : CHOPSTICK
15-across – Washington provided for homeless child : WAIF
16-across – Break seal to get drinks : ALES
17-across – The growth of the fairytale : BEANSTALK
21-across – May be seen round the trunk of this tree, perhaps : TEESHIRT
22-across – Quiet seaman gets by, looking scruffy : SHABBY
24-across – Accommodation for a model family : DOLLSHOUSE
25-across – Come up against an objection : ABUT
26-across – Back me to supervise relief work : EMBOSS
27-across – Capital A followed by S? : ATHENS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The scope of the Bard? : BREADTH
2-down – Is paid pots, they say : EARNS
3-down – Fruit for the shy : COCONUT
5-down – Equal to both parts of 13 : CLEAVE
6-down – One who helps satanists out : ASSISTANT
7-down – There’s no performance of The Peacock : SHOWOFF
8-down – What a travelling orchestra goes on? : CONDUCTEDTOUR
14-down – Two irons used by journalists together : PRESSCLUB
16-down – Holding soldiers up in a unit is a bloomer : ANEMONE
18-down – New rise just coming into effect : NASCENT
19-down – A sailor scowls about Herculean tasks : LABOURS
20-down – Figures in the University Boat Race : EIGHTS
23-down – Lower in a mathematical scale : ABASE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22170 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22170 clues and answers were published on Fri 30 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22170 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Unfeeling comment – no good, completely useless : DEADLOSS
9-across – Cold compartment used for a buffet outside church : ICEBOX
10-across – Could be a pet tip, say : PEKE
11-across – The sailor’s asking for an annulment : ABROGATION
12-across – One’s stupid to make it dull around the west : DIMWIT
14-across – The speed of a star with no centre : CELERITY
15-across – Rascal upset the seaman : LASCAR
17-across – Wormy bit of deal needing treatment? Oh, I say! : MYWORD
20-across – 4’s work : THEWATER
22-across – See 20 : BABIES
23-across – Put on society clothing, or track suit? : SPORTSWEAR
24-across – Preoccupied sailor has turn round piano : RAPT
25-across – Name the number below : NETHER
26-across – Account after writing information sheet : HANDBILL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Army unit call intended as a cure : REMEDIAL
2-down – Used for dressing tots, we hear : ADZE
3-down – Part of cooker provided on drawing capital? : HOBART
4-down – Writer likes New York gravity, possibly : KINGSLEY
5-down – Dangerous post : LETTERBOMB
6-down – Follower of flickering torch needing to take in oxygen : COHORT
8-down – Smart one with the cones : SPRUCE
13-down – 4’s work : WESTWARDHO
16-down – Flair shown in sitar playing attempt : ARTISTRY
18-down – By which one can alter handle : DEEDPOLL
19-down – Breaking of the law, say, concerning gun part : BREECH
21-down – Worker in Kent, one getting grain? : HOPPER
22-down – To drill can be tedious : BORING
24-down – Old city set up beside a stone : RUBY

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22169 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22169 clues and answers were published on Thu 29 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22169 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Night is unusual source of enlightenment : INSIGHT
8-across – Slovenly Auntie Penny is often seen in bed : PETUNIA
10-across – It blew in the clash of armies : SHOFAR
11-across – Is it practised by Donald’s dicky doctor? : QUACKERY
12-across – The colour of the downs : BLUE
13-across – What planners do to supporter in rage : BRAINSTORM
14-across – Pacific islands that draw in butterflies : ADMIRALTIES
19-across – The case for the prosecution? : ACCUSATIVE
22-across – Songster spent night in strong wind : GALE
23-across – Did she flutter when the male bird ate noisily? : COQUETTE
24-across – You can take the lead from it : GALENA
25-across – A shape for locks and buttons : PAGEBOY
26-across – Skunk restin’ awkwardly with its tail tucked in : STINKER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – High-rise housing for the workers? : ANTHILL
2-down – Carpet for the landing? : AIRFIELD
3-down – Angelic being, one overthrown, they say : CHERUB
4-down – Something to eat put about new cane product : PECANNUT
5-down – Hyacinth Bouquet sounds pale : BUCKET
6-down – Glasses for Narcissus? : MIRRORS
9-down – Gems decorating a main square : AQUAMARINES
15-down – There’s none of this in battle : INACTION
16-down – Fruit producer on a poultry-farm? : EGGPLANT
17-down – Fellow pupil : SCHOLAR
18-down – One who grows something for the pot : PLANTER
20-down – Loan shark certainly found in the City once : USURER
21-down – Numbers seen in a row : EIGHTS

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22168 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22168 clues and answers were published on Wed 28 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22168 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Stunt, perhaps, during parade for motorists : DEFORM
6-across – Like 17 and 22, an old boat for an airborne elite : ARKANSAS
9-across – Part of body with bone on the same row : SHINDY
10-across – Poke fun at beloved Parisian ornithologist : TWITCHER
11-across – Lease up, bank gets involved, as can’t be told : UNSPEAKABLE
15-across – Second insult is incomplete, but you get the flavour : SAFFRON
17-across – Touching 22 is the owner of Harry, some say … : ARIZONA
18-across – … which contains the £1,000 container that … : GRANDCANYON
22-across – … contains a flower with a beetle on it : COLORADO
23-across – Typically leaning to the right : ITALIC
24-across – Master ingesting a toxic gas had the hand of God to help him : MARADONA
25-across – Hot stuff here? Cold stuff covers the West : FROWST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – See 12 : BRIDGE
2-down – Stop shaving and take up female dress – outside line to Lincoln : GROWABEARD
3-down – Argentinian girl has a row with Araucaria : GALTIERI
4-down – It’s hell, chaps, do you hear? Pretend you’re someone else : DISGUISE
5-down – Long stop Craig coming in suffers at heart : FAILSAFE
7-down – Like this little house in London? : SOHO
8-down – Angry that love is upset : SORE
12-down – Forth’s second, once first, with stock round in card-game : KINCARDINE
13-down – Serious injury to love-child – love would shortly come into it : BODYBLOW
14-down – Panelling for cart that attracts tax : WAINSCOT
16-down – Old-fashioned in fashion in fashion business? : RAGTRADE
19-down – Covering for a wheel covering, so to speak : ATTIRE
20-down – No relation to shellfish: it’s a trick : SCAM
21-down – Distinctly not parts of Blue Peter? : BLUR

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22167 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 22167 clues and answers were published on Tue 27 Mar 2001 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 22167 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – She’s seen it in one of the tabloids : SUSAN
4-across – Watch With Mother interrupts bath-time negotiator : DIPLOMAT
8-across – Being urso-microcephalic, 5 shows lexicophobic tendencies : IAMABEAROFVERY
10-across – See 8 : BOTHERME
11-across – See 5 : CORNER
12-across – Characters sitting in sauna maturely undressed : AUNATUREL
15-across – Soapbox that might be taken out by keeper : STUMP
17-across – Ornament of gold going about the City : DECOR
18-across – Sweet penchant that made 5 20! : HONEYLIKE
19-across – Hut of iron is sent for : NISSEN
21-across – Twice one becomes free – little change here : TWOPENCE
24-across – See 8 : LITTLEBRAINAND
25-across – Not moving cattle in the way things are : AKINESIS
26-across – Being in bed topless is strange in the North : UNKED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved : SAILBOARDING
2-down – Issue A not quite complete, so is binding B to C? : SEMITONIC
3-down – Half-heartedly swindle peer : NOBLE
4-down – Solemn notes for an extremely unbusy time : DEADMARCH
5-down – 20ing place making poor rich : POOH
6-down – Like amnesiacs, left one out, it’s clear : OBVIOUSLY
7-down – One lying ultimately off stage : APRON
9-down – So the infernal Guardian heard about man entering claim! : TRIPLEHEADED
13-down – Take turns reallocating territory : TURKESTAN
14-down – See 8 : LONGWORDS
16-down – One standard we should be proud to raise : UNIONJACK
20-down – What moves me? It’s water under the bridge for 5 and co : STICK
22-down – A private lubrication to rub in up the wrong way : POILU
23-down – Great Olympian raising the course of the water : ZEUS

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

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