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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21635 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21635 clues and answers were published on Mon 12 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21635 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – A really quiet rest can bring calm : APPEASE
8-across – A butcher may use it to cut credit without permission : CLEAVER
10-across – Code word for ‘S’ is rare in use : SIERRA
11-across – It means raising the subject at the Palace : ACCOLADE
12-across – A natural hanger-on, in a manner of speaking : BURR
13-across – Tender name, perhaps : ENDEARMENT
14-across – Taking such action will not be offensive or illegal : SELFDEFENCE
19-across – Yet such ads are seen by the public : CLASSIFIED
22-across – General’s remains : LEES
23-across – Follow and observe for a two-hour period : DOGWATCH
24-across – Stay and check mother in : REMAIN
25-across – Keep track of warship : MONITOR
26-across – Examining body to many a doctor : ANATOMY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Best that it be raised with mother after work : OPTIMUM
2-down – Present home of the partridge : PEARTREE
3-down – Bolt or lock the cell door to prevent it : ESCAPE
4-down – City investment? : BLOCKADE
5-down – Part of New York Mahler variation : HARLEM
6-down – Title for a chapter in a football manual? : HEADING
9-down – Something wicked and frivolous helps dispel the gloom : CANDLELIGHT
15-down – False story about ringleader can produce bad feeling : FRICTION
16-down – A strike in UK’s financial centre would be a catastrophe : CALAMITY
17-down – Where is this sold? Oh, in the local, perhaps : ALCOHOL
18-down – They may raise people’s spirits : MEDIUMS
20-down – A swift turnaround was considered proper : SAWFIT
21-down – Bold prosecutor takes on a cartel : DARING

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21633 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21633 clues and answers were published on Fri 09 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21633 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Jail-bait? : PORRIDGE
9-across – A rendezvous at Shaftesbury : AVENUE
10-across – Nice, so they say, stretch of 20 water : FYNE
11-across – See 15 : MACKINTOSH
12-across – It holds one up at last : COFFIN
14-across – A Bolshevik leaning over to include a number back : LENINIST
15-across – After tea Leslie came inside, returning with family rubbish for 20 architect : CHARLES
17-across – 20 city, working gas in radiance : GLASGOW
20-across – This cast no blight on semi-conventional party : SCOTTISH
22-across – See 15 : RENNIE
23-across – Drunken kilty whams a dram … : MALTWHISKY
24-across – … and another, by the sound of it, on a 20 isle, while … : RHUM
25-across – 20 cap some vermouth : BONNET
26-across – It controls drift when Rosie’s apathetic, they say : LEEBOARD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – 20 submarine base reported to be totally secure : HOLYLOCH
2-down – Amerind procreates without benefit of pastor : CREE
3-down – Umpire? He was out at the cinema : ODDMAN
4-down – Rider covers awfully nice first long drawers : PENCILS
5-down – See 20 : NATIONAL
6-down – Symbolic of Japan? Quite the reverse at the end of the day : SETTINGSUN
7-down – 20 smackers? Utter transport! : BUSSES
13-down – It’s to be cast by the sinless Matthew and Mark on being consumed by fervour : FIRSTSTONE
16-down – Terms of article written in a fit of spite : EPITHETS
18-down – Statistician has lost the bill, old boy! I first give notice of being late : OBITUARY
19-down – The opposite of that let out? It’s a prickly one : THISTLE
21-down – Keep talking about the setting of the Ring : CHATON
22-down – Modes of loads of Toad’s odes : RHYMES
24-down – A piece of fleece : ROOK

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21632 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21632 clues and answers were published on Thu 08 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21632 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Musical instrument said to be an emblem : CYMBAL
4-across – Talisman for many at race meeting : MASCOT
9-across – Worry about ornamental work : FRET
10-across – One with divine wisdom others hope to confute : THEOSOPHER
11-across – See 5 : FABLES
12-across – Passed on knowledge to child about trade : IMPARTED
13-across – Makes accusations about study on weights : DENOUNCES
15-across – Plans to bring back wartime dish : MAPS
16-across – Old Palestine district back in fashion : MODE
17-across – Frugality in standard ecclesiastical offence : PARSIMONY
21-across – Toast drunk in Italian port : BRINDISI
22-across – Take for granted amount taken on board in rough sea : ASSUME
24-across – Help one man to become uniquely remarkable : PHENOMENAL
25-across – Actor of pedigree : TREE
26-across – Girl is turning colour : SIENNA
27-across – Untypical examples of games : SPORTS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Body in vehicle trunk? : CARCASE
2-down – Where to find accommodation let out by doctor : MOTEL
3-down – Trains a foreign mechanic : ARTISAN
5-down – Moralistic relations from the Ancient World : AESOPS
6-down – Biblical town where manure-spreading follows Common Agricultural Policy : CAPERNAUM
7-down – Article put to strange uses by Greek hero : THESEUS
8-down – Debates about composer receiving fair share : DELIBERATIONS
14-down – Regulation One in the Artillery : ORDINANCE
16-down – Walks resolutely along the borders : MARCHES
18-down – Store that contains everything for a small boat : SHALLOP
19-down – Biblical pain-killers? : NUMBERS
20-down – Hired assassin a success on island : HITMAN
23-down – Woodland god has a tyrannical component : SATYR

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21631 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21631 clues and answers were published on Wed 07 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21631 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Butt in front to get effective palmistry, for instance : FORTUNETELLING
9-across – Person dropping head if tested a fraction : DEFEATIST
10-across – Joint returns from overtime : MITRE
11-across – Previously unknown sap : LATEX
12-across – Put down our bearing : DEMEANOUR
13-across – Makes lance for huntsman : FALCONER
14-across – Coming back, once more sinks the rest in snooker : SPIDER
17-across – Over-supplied on purpose to render harmless : DEFUSE
19-across – An enticement to hold your child initially when travelling? : CARRYCOT
22-across – Seen, we hear, from country’s headland? : LANDSCAPE
24-across – Religious teacher drifted before one : SWAMI
25-across – Kid’s minder? : NANNY
26-across – Divert trade winds when broaching poorly : SIDETRACK
27-across – On Crimewatch, it gives another chance to study street fight : RECONSTRUCTION

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Play cast includes tot fussing about : FIDDLEFADDLING
2-down – Disproval concerning bad fault : REFUTAL
3-down – Calm and without dissent, I’m substituted by team : UNANXIOUS
4-down – Miscreant lied over atrocity : EVILDOER
5-down – Bearing note about cat to bury : ENTOMB
6-down – Am in trouble getting up for wicked witch : LAMIA
7-down – It can result in call for reserve : NETCORD
8-down – Scared witless as boobs deceive in number : TERRORSTRICKEN
15-down – Mean like one mite, almost? : PARASITIC
16-down – Washer takes last plant : LAVENDER
18-down – One engaged about new money matters : FINANCE
20-down – Bread I knock up after tea : CHAPATI
21-down – Body lacks hot drink : CASSIS
23-down – Writer of lusty love-letters : STYLO

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21630 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21630 clues and answers were published on Tue 06 Jul 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21630 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Poisonous plant disposes of servant and Sir Francis : MANDRAKE
9-across – Follows storyteller in street going westwards : TRAILS
10-across – Stake where Italian poet lost his head : ANTE
11-across – Literary group flourishes next to sink : BLOOMSBURY
12-across – Dimwit absorbs Stock Exchange secret : CLOSET
14-across – Shut up shed and flat : DROPDEAD
15-across – Making endless noise about rubbish, backing Victoria? : STATION
17-across – One attracted to card game shows how to cut : ABRIDGE
20-across – Slug with tail squashed by French politician : GAULLIST
22-across – Deposit secures little back room for manoeuvre : LEEWAY
23-across – Fix up my sandal for this religious festival : PALMSUNDAY
24-across – The pain borne by Rachel : ACHE
25-across – Polish king – Old Black Eye : SHINER
26-across – Turn round headlong in new wooden rescue boat : NOAHSARK

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The challenge of accommodating Aunt Letitia : GAUNTLET
2-down – Newspaperman gets half inch : EDGE
3-down – Doctor in middle of walk makes sacrifice : GAMBIT
4-down – Extra food for boxers’ helpers : SECONDS
5-down – Scrap a lot of money? That makes a big bang : ATOMBOMB
6-down – Counter-plot calls for telegram security equipment : BARBEDWIRE
7-down – Swanson impregnates rag with oil : GLORIA
13-down – It resolves difficulties in an isolated village : SETTLEMENT
16-down – Death sentences? : OBITUARY
18-down – Keeper of hardy animals is an unlikely dog-hater : GOATHERD
19-down – Apprentice journalist caught up in dangerous feat : STUDENT
21-down – Coldness of a course unknown : APATHY
22-down – Untrained person writing short poem on staff : LAYMAN
24-down – Processed peas found in church : APSE

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

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