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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21954 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21954 clues and answers were published on Wed 19 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21954 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Had home team to wear a plain colour? : RESIDED
5-across – Accountant cautions partnership : CAHOOTS
9-across – What Kiev has to offer literally is marketing : VENDING
10-across – You mean two jurors are incompetent? That’s with defence potential : TENABLE
11-across – Of little moment? Moment indeed! : SMALLTIME
12-across – Show contrition, having run off with leggy bird : EGRET
13-across – Small numbers from Dublin? They fit the brogue! : TREES
15-across – Projectile’s journey long – no beginning or end but a great distance : LIGHTYEAR
17-across – Vainglorious competitor uses drug – horse? : POTHUNTER
19-across – Not an entire fowl? : CAPON
22-across – Shoot as Gunners drop back : RAPID
23-across – Press on with the descent, say : WEIGHDOWN
25-across – Supplier of The Times daily? Wrong, almost daily! : SUNDIAL
26-across – What’s a pitcher doing in this game? : HURLING
27-across – Learning notes : LETTERS
28-across – Soften colour, say, by adding blue : DIEDOWN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Call again on Minister to come to the question : REVISIT
2-down – With waves all round, say, leaves Auntie’s organisation : SINUATE
3-down – GP not fit for practice : DRILL
4-down – Pet name taken from wild flower : DOGVIOLET
5-down – Attractive girl that’s following fashion : CUTIE
6-down – Revamped chain stores bottom of trade league : HANSEATIC
7-down – Writer so close to the bone – gets it again about right? : OSBORNE
8-down – It may be worn when a wester’s got up : SWEATER
14-down – Good smart pithy quote : SOUNDBITE
16-down – Dressed overall, wearing ensign, about to cast off : GARNISHED
17-down – Troops look to retreat under umbrella : PARASOL
18-down – Tuft of grass turned over, giving cover to bird : TOPKNOT
20-down – Peak shortly after taking professional qualification : PROVISO
21-down – Flat refusal to go on working – and it’s multilateral : NONAGON
23-down – Spa town : WELLS
24-down – Fantastic Hera, foremost of Olympian goddesses : HORAE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21953 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21953 clues and answers were published on Tue 18 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21953 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – A foreign correspondent : PENFRIEND
6-across – Five notes joined together : ADDED
9-across – Six Scots talking about an old language : SAXON
10-across – Show respect for man nursing dreadful clue about France : GENUFLECT
11-across – Silly talk of she-elephant having a nasty smell : MUMBOJUMBO
12-across – Miss newfangled fads : ISMS
14-across – A step in kinky underwear : PANTIES
15-across – Get tax back and earn, we hear, a holiday place in Greece : TAVERNA
17-across – Backed-up river’s got nothing and produces yellow oil : LINSEED
19-across – Fighting caused by drink at university : PUNCHUP
20-across – Bound, they say, to ebb and flow : TIDE
22-across – Perform on flat surface and perform in the opposite direction : COUNTERACT
25-across – Two girls meet an optimist : POLLYANNA
26-across – Tie poles into small diagram : INSET
27-across – Raise a kind of fly : CRANE
28-across – Three-legged competition : TRIATHLON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Fleece father’s housemaster : PASHM
2-down – Padded but not in the middle : NEXTMANIN
3-down – Cheapskate first organised party machine to produce results with no pattern : RANDOMISER
4-down – For example, force copper coppers into small holders : EGGCUPS
5-down – Data, mostly taking in Great Britain, concerning unnamed missile : DINGBAT
6-down – A-class grass : ALFA
7-down – Very important show trial : DRESS
8-down – Make a timely impression : DATESTAMP
13-down – Zealous advocate may otherwise avenge record : EVANGELIST
14-down – Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions : POLYTYPIC
16-down – See 7 : REHEARSAL
18-down – Portend new equipment for catching fish : DROPNET
19-down – Joke I made about Punch in another language : PUNJABI
21-down – A bunch of flowers : DELTA
23-down – God beat around it : TITAN
24-down – Auntie’s own protection against flooding? : DYKE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21952 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21952 clues and answers were published on Mon 17 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21952 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Such a fare is economical : FRUGAL
5-across – One of the art gallery’s main exhibits : SEASCAPE
9-across – Soldier carrying sailors? : MANOFWAR
10-across – New style navy : MODERN
11-across – An estimate of how resourceful one is : CREDITRATING
13-across – You used to be grand : THOU
14-across – Habitual criminal makes for difficult police work : HARDCASE
17-across – Drink lands teenager in trouble : GREENTEA
18-across – Aim low : MEAN
20-across – He keeps an eye on the hands to avoid overtime : CLOCKWATCHER
23-across – Millionaire’s roe? : CAVIAR
24-across – An apology for a dance : EXCUSEME
25-across – They won’t stand for their instruments being played : CELLISTS
26-across – Saw off the tongue : SAYING

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – First ride on a new horse : ROAN
3-down – Valid reason for giving to charity : GOODCAUSE
4-down – The instruction he gets will be brief : LAWYER
5-down – Yet on stage she might be a curvaceous performer : STRAIGHTACTRESS
6-down – Errs amid wayward lovers : ADMIRERS
7-down – He is working on commission : CADET
8-down – Wild party ends a school occasion : PARENTSDAY
12-down – Leisure time for a craftsman : SHORELEAVE
15-down – Unwilling to go into print : CAMERASHY
16-down – They’re enquiry agents, of course : STEWARDS
19-down – Corresponds with central Europeans, say : CHECKS
21-down – Central heating off apparently! : CHILL
22-down – Being awkward, mean to get the last word : AMEN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21950 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21950 clues and answers were published on Fri 14 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21950 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – In the martyred village a little boy : LIBERTYBODICE
10-across – … with a shirt, perhaps, to be glossed over : UNDERCOAT
11-across – President, a change from Botha : THABO
12-across – Entered a mass with some value : INGOT
13-across – Man about town, or rather Georgian city, in a massacre : BLOODBATH
14-across – Decoration to cover broken leg : SPANGLE
16-across – Unfairly denigrate south German regions : SLANDER
18-across – Instrument that’s low even if fleet : ALTHORN
20-across – 50 in a bundle with keys : ASHLEAF
21-across – A record comes back in, coloured to prevent corrosion : TINPLATED
23-across – Temporary increase in acceleration among blue characters : BULGE
24-across – Avoids affectionate address : DUCKS
25-across – Spell-breaker’s recipe: get gold in tax first : EXORCISER
26-across – Canines would be located on the Riviera by such cruelty : HEARTLESSNESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Up in arms at taunt in pub at social worker : INDIGNANT
3-down – Bird that won’t start to apologise : EGRET
4-down – Time and money, that’s what’s wrong : TROUBLE
5-down – 7 on sand’s keeping 7 in fripperies : BUTTONS
6-down – Terminate – put a full stop – to poem on bad hat : DOTODEATH
7-down – Miss Butt and Miss Bow see century by batsman : CLARA
8-down – Miss Buss and Miss Beale ________ need a friend to stop cuddles : CUPIDSDARTSDO
9-down – Mrs Buck and Mrs Bailey make 22 : MOTHEROFPEARL
15-down – A sportsman is a fool, keeping up old run : GOODLOSER
17-down – They are expected at length at scene of combat : DUELLISTS
19-down – See 8 : NOTFEEL
20-down – See 5 : ANDBOWS
22-down – Pole : NACRE
23-down – Degree for Tory writer and painter : BACON

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21949 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21949 clues and answers were published on Thu 13 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21949 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – I’d rejected truth about French to change Ray’s approach : DIFFRACT
5-across – On credit, at first, publisher had to make up for loss : RECOUP
9-across – Actor, maybe, has to look about right shape : PERFORMER
11-across – Society that is looking over an Italian location : SIENA
12-across – Mean to distance ourselves from position of the Sun : ASTRONOMICAL
15-across – What’s thin and red in the middle? : RARE
16-across – Organising parties, perhaps, in aid of the underprivileged : SOCIALWORK
18-across – Shelf of software affected by virus? : WINDOWSILL
19-across – Tend to be thin : LEAN
21-across – See 2 : EXTINGUISHER
24-across – In recalled era, it’s obviously a Roman port : OSTIA
25-across – Dare to put in an opinion, or steering clear? : AVOIDANCE
26-across – One often getting in a flap at home? : FELINE
27-across – Acting the gentleman, finally back every evenin : KNIGHTLY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Information regarding drugs in general : DOPE
2-down – What the blazes do you need this for? : FIRE
3-down – Silly story about love, with ethnic overtones? : ROOTSY
4-down – Combs area – a wild dog in it? Pictures revealed it’s boxed in : CAMERAOBSCURA
6-down – Outfit made three points on unfinished logo : ENSEMBLE
7-down – No way is it 15 that’s done too much for the consumer : OVERCOOKED
8-down – Londoner geared up, as things are coming to a head about railway : PEARLYKING
10-down – Club’s open – in, or elsewhere, for something unusual to eat with? : RUNCIBLESPOON
13-down – Fed up with getting a tan at last? : BROWNEDOFF
14-down – In all, no more than two monkeys accounted for : GRANDTOTAL
17-down – Ben’s own Highland pony coming over : MOUNTAIN
20-down – Salt in this? Agonised perplexedly : SEADOG
22-down – See 12 : UNIT
23-down – Extremely brusque and very heartless women in company : BEVY

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

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