Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21641 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21641 clues and answers were published on Mon 19 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21641 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Side path turning into a main road : SPITHEAD
5-across – Fail to correspond? : DIFFER
9-across – Makes closer agreements : COMPACTS
10-across – Tax protester who presented her buff form : GODIVA
11-across – Turning a list into new form : ROTATION
12-across – So slim, perhaps, and so supple : LISSOM
14-across – Highly cultivated feature of modern cities : ROOFGARDEN
18-across – A choice of courses or delicacies : SWEETMEATS
22-across – Means business : AGENCY
23-across – He makes a living from dirty pictures : RESTORER
24-across – People enter for this kind of sport : INDOOR
25-across – The most important guy on board : MAINSTAY
26-across – Curiosity may make one tarry : RARITY
27-across – Where many enjoy the pleasures of the slippery path : SKISLOPE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – It’s safe to view when the dog is kept inside : SECURE
2-down – Resident is at home with his wife : INMATE
3-down – Do all this Scottish team get the red card? : HEARTS
4-down – Night-watchman : ASTRONOMER
6-down – Press one to state conclusion is paradoxical : IRONICAL
7-down – Record turnover? : FLIPSIDE
8-down – What’s behind China preparing for new conflict : REARMING
13-down – Having started the race is wide of target : OFFTHEMARK
15-down – It makes pears lie against the wall, for example : ESPALIER
16-down – Back one aiming to retain his title : DEFENDER
17-down – Continue to be stubborn, so cane produced : STICKOUT
19-down – More than one rock group? : STONES
20-down – About the end of December, reached Santa’s base : GROTTO
21-down – It’s built as an ocean container : GROYNE

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21639 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21639 clues and answers were published on Fri 16 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21639 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Unsteady on one’s feet when hallucinating? : TRIPPING
9-across – Glasses mopped up by half-torn sponge : LOOFAH
10-across – Knocks over box : SPAR
11-across – Looking up at the black stuff amidst swirling gas with enthusiasm : STARGAZING
12-across – Deity, old style deity : OSIRIS
14-across – Lord about to be over-effusive about charging prospectors? : GOLDRUSH
15-across – A lake follows an endless river from the nose : RHINAL
17-across – See : WALLIS
20-across – In which to immerse the beasts of Spooner’s ocean liner? : SHEEPDIP
22-across – Very strong supporter wants to laze around : ZEALOT
23-across – Chatted carelessly about people parting : DETACHMENT
24-across – Chest, or above it exhibited? : BUST
25-across – Mythical feat, or foot? : LEGEND
26-across – Deciding game by having kipper for elevenses, perhaps? : TIEBREAK

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – One moving for one sitting : PROPOSER
2-down – Incentive might be painful to hide? : SPUR
3-down – Fails to shoot the wife, we hear : MISSES
4-down – Shoots lass held up by bloke : FLAGELLA
5-down – Italian food lasts in Roma when prepared by a girl : MOZZARELLA
6-down – Wartime inventor is after exploding answer in spherical form : BARNES
8-down – Managed raising farm produce around the farmhouse : GRANGE
13-down – Repeats diabolical Easter rite : REITERATES
16-down – Alcoholic compound with lead altered alter ego : ALDEHYDE
18-down – Intent look most represented in Mac : SCOTSMAN
19-down – Cheerful and optimistic as bar closes? : UPBEAT
21-down – Listed as a shoe? : HEELED
22-down – Man in Ritz cheekily played on knee? : ZITHER
24-down – Tedious drill? : BORE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21638 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21638 clues and answers were published on Thu 15 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21638 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Diner consumes Sunday feast : EASTER
6-across – Excess of dubious help to artist : PLETHORA
9-across – Party minister backed in speech : VERBAL
10-across – Old resistance fighter given prize by governor : HEREWARD
11-across – Bar terms : LEGALJARGON
15-across – Model left part-time involvement with church dignitary : PRIMATE
17-across – Some baby, small enough to be bottomless : ABYSMAL
18-across – Titanic orchestra playing to order? : ABANDONSHIP
22-across – Sea captain – not half a terrible wretch : BLIGHTER
23-across – Get away – piss off, in common parlance : GOSSIP
24-across – Little by little, a man takes over – he’s over there : AMERICAN
25-across – Inferior competitor follows Cambridge lead – but not so far behind : CLOSER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Lament rise of fear in the party : BEWAIL
2-down – Whereof George is 15 : ALLENGLAND
3-down – They lean precariously in Somerset : ATHELNEY
4-down – Covering letter? : ENVELOPE
5-down – Logis are inappropriate accommodation for concubines : SERAGLIO
7-down – Type of ring to give a friend? : OPAL
8-down – Like have a degree in sums : ADDS
12-down – A mean fellow is not unusual : AVERAGEMAN
13-down – Stress breaking up ship; mate’s lost heart : EMPHASIS
14-down – Lightweight journal? : FLYPAPER
16-down – Pioneer of the web site? : ARACHNID
19-down – Donkey and another old one : NOODLE
20-down – Father participates in Hebrew Sabbath observance : ABBA
21-down – Trick of speaking at length : WILE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21637 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21637 clues and answers were published on Wed 14 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21637 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – 3kw, perhaps, to make a strong nation redundant? : FIREPOWER
6-across – Ultimate blow for the Electric Company at the Lizard? : GECKO
9-across – 3-ed MPs met Church of England twice; I lost the drift : SELECTCOMMITTEE
10-across – Betted, backing out-of-form steeplechaser up from Hitchcock film : DIAL
11-across – The devil within the law is not expressed : IMPLICIT
14-across – Female students, one of them in Scots county till sell-by date : SHELFLIFE
15-across – Butterfly provides clue about prince and king getting badly stuck between hard and soft : CHALK
16-across – 10 ephah arrival : COMER
18-across – Hope tuner can make it on cue : THEREUPON
20-across – Brought up by unexpected U-turn at sign of danger : NURTURED
21-across – See 26 : FLAG
25-across – Rides out with complete article about a wing from home base : RESIDENTIALAREA
26-across – Yellow iris the police, without worry, backed with most of … : WATER
27-across – … setting of precious stone: there’s poetry in set of sail : SILVERSEA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Browsed around the Guardian, ready for lights out? : FUSED
2-down – Get a new tenant for free : RELEASE
3-down – Choose a burner of papers? : PICK
4-down – See 3 : WICK
5-down – One who belongs in the grass between 24 and 23s : REMEMBERED
6-down – Diagram of crossword requiring key when one’s stuck : GRIDLOCKED
7-down – Dealt, with two aces, the first of two wales : CETACEA
8-down – Passed green brought in from a tree : OVERTAKEN
12-down – See 10 : MFORMURDER
13-down – Literary lions, classically, are troubles wished on brides : LITTLEONES
14-down – Back protest by centre forwards? : SECONDROW
17-down – Impressionist causing upset to treacher during assembly : MORISOT
19-down – Missile discovered by plough : POLARIS
22-down – Fruit from Antigua vastly overrated : GUAVA
23-down – See 15 : HILL
24-down – See 15 : BLUE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21636 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21636 clues and answers were published on Tue 13 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21636 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Heartless shoplifter beats popular cinema : THEFLICKS
6-across – Slew King of the Underworld, backing out : SKID
10-across – Guardian of Tower opposed in rear approach : RAVEN
11-across – Refuted by Donne in the Irish Sea? : ISLEOFMAN
12-across – Make a cartoon about terrorists capturing former African dictator : ANIMATE
13-across – Turned pale at Latin, but passed : ELAPSED
14-across – Demonstrate on unusual instrument : ONDESMARTENOT
17-across – Split up in the haze and take the wrong way : MISUNDERSTAND
21-across – Hun and Inca breaking loose : UNCHAIN
22-across – Would being so suit her? Doubtful : HIRSUTE
24-across – Pets rejected famous Roman’s clipped bits : STACCATOS
25-across – Put up with stockings: turn in : HOUSE
26-across – Grass in a mess : HASH
27-across – Quiet celebrity put out, having to get to work manually : PUSHSTART

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Flavour of salt on cooked organ : TARRAGON
2-down – Message delivered by spoken voice : ENVOI
3-down – Percival’s about to stop fool finding a way to help : LENDASSISTANCE
4-down – Ring artist to get vision : CHIMERA
5-down – The Sun has a gap in funds : SOLVENT
7-down – With skill, initially, Uncle Sam and a king look up old manual : KAMASUTRA
8-down – Strip city slicker possessing two quarters : DENUDE
9-down – Composer displays a measure of energy and resistance, pinching hot-headed woman’s underwear : JOHANNESBRAHMS
15-down – Note celebrity’s comeback for a party : DEMOCRATS
16-down – Worker accepted Lawrence before becoming a fan : ADHERENT
18-down – Dope’s no introduction to narcotics, if taken the wrong way continuously : NONSTOP
19-down – Confused sheep’s turn in the old town : EPHESUS
20-down – Places a Companion of the Revolution : PUTSCH
23-down – It may catch in the throat : UVULA

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

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