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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21948 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21948 clues and answers were published on Wed 12 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21948 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Film box office, first to be installed : CARTOON
5-across – Refuse to boast about having to grow old : GARBAGE
10-across – Perfect student dropped off, it’s thought! : IDEA
11-across – Rides here just run on shore : FAIRGROUND
12-across – Man admits good books will be somehow stimulating : EROTIC
13-across – Dealer caught by animal trainer : CHANDLER
14-across – Charming listener coming in close : ENDEARING
16-across – Authority takes £2 for an excursion : SALLY
17-across – Point to firm sailors showing derision : SCORN
19-across – Drunk I’ve fed, etc is not working : DEFECTIVE
23-across – Falls which can blur one’s vision : CATARACT
24-across – The missing saint story is just supposition : THEORY
26-across – People could be seen to somewhere in Kent : FOLKESTONE
27-across – Piano is left in back, an oversight : SLIP
28-across – Cautious pair, you said, tend to go mad : PRUDENT
29-across – Trainee to dust round hospital department : STUDENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Soon to grab free-standing firedog : ANDIRON
3-down – Characteristic cunning overturned it : TRAIT
4-down – Policemen in charge in advance : OFFICER
6-down – New Age Ena reaches an arm of the Mediterranean : AEGEAN
7-down – Radio cab travelling around one thoroughfare and another : BROADCAST
8-down – Well-bred fellow, a sometimes shocking swimmer : GENTEEL
9-down – Innocent disco dancing leads to separation : DISCONNECTION
15-down – Are badly stained, but set aside for future use : EARMARKED
18-down – Uproar first caused by Latin love affair : CLAMOUR
20-down – Beg soldiers to go into a tent when changing : ENTREAT
21-down – Type is accepted by no vicar standing : VERSION
22-down – Half of parish wants a young male priest! : PARSON
25-down – After getting rid of cold, stopped and relaxed : EASED

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21947 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21947 clues and answers were published on Tue 11 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21947 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Precautionary marriage – no spontaneous combustion! : SAFETYMATCH
9-across – Sycophant who’s hardly a streak of lightning : CRAWLER
10-across – Top brass is not particular : GENERAL
11-across – Uncivilised and hurtful remark by heretic : BARBARIAN
12-across – Fear of locks, perhaps : DREAD
13-across – Over there one sees privates : YONI
14-across – Cropper takes Tyler for a seabird : SHEARWATER
16-across – Go on at length about king being a foreigner : EXPATRIATE
19-across – Ray’s biblical eye trouble : BEAM
21-across – Nurse’s profession drops a point : CARER
22-across – Basic redesign of M10 secured by airline : ELEMENTAL
24-across – Not quite the end of the road in the Song of the Mystic Symbol : MANDALA
25-across – On board, appear sick of harvested corn : SHEAVES
26-across – Lived in Spain with team of conservationists coming into Arab money : RESIDENTIAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Injured stripper twice ran away with good friend despite the fighting : SPARRINGPARTNER
2-down – Composer of notes about student : FALLA
3-down – Sweet delight in steamy bath? : TURKISH
4-down – Red spy keeping mum? On the contrary! : MAGENTA
5-down – Moderate not keeping god up : TONEDOWN
6-down – Autumnal event’s hot and summery – bring in right underwear before first of February : HARVESTFESTIVAL
7-down – Head of school and professional driver with skin complaint : SCABBY
8-down – German taking cover from aircraft : GLIDER
15-down – Point to untrained traitors mounting futuristic defence : STARWARS
16-down – Newly emancipated, give up a diet and settle down : ENCAMP
17-down – Country fellow raised in poetic subcontinent : ICELAND
18-down – No tears shed for betrayal : TREASON
20-down – Pests with time to pester : MOLEST
23-down – Resin occurring in diesel emissions : ELEMI

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21946 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21946 clues and answers were published on Mon 10 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21946 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Come down on fire : ALIGHT
4-across – Mistakes are holding a sailor back : ERRATA
9-across – We hear top player is to step down : CEDE
10-across – I’ll repeat what has been said for those unable to read : ILLITERATE
11-across – Stop and surrender : GIVEUP
12-across – The present time : YULETIDE
13-across – Kind of dive lorry drivers try to avoid : JACKKNIFE
15-across – It makes a pass into a path : LISP
16-across – Squirrel’s home moved back three feet : DRAY
17-across – Broken down, oddly enough : CRACKEDUP
21-across – Biased team and what may be done about it : ONESIDED
22-across – He brought fresh weight to laws of motion : NEWTON
24-across – A cut in the rate : PERCENTAGE
25-across – In the course of a lacklustre comeback : AMID
26-across – Is getting in support to carry on the fight : RESIST
27-across – Nun wanders around diocese with unprepared translation : UNSEEN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A married woman in the country : AMERICA
2-down – Girl showing passion over loveless one : IRENE
3-down – Used to make a lock fast, or to pick it : HAIRPIN
5-down – What a snake may do to make one nervous : RATTLE
6-down – A highly offensive action : AIRSTRIKE
7-down – Caused trouble, getting Bill and Edward out of bed : ACTEDUP
8-down – Aims at parity in the field of sport : PLAYSFORADRAW
14-down – Chip bags or containers : KNAPSACKS
16-down – Nursed a crippled male ballet dancer : DANSEUR
18-down – Restaurant cutlery : CANTEEN
19-down – Too good to be true : UTOPIAN
20-down – The handsome chap said no, unfortunately : ADONIS
23-down – Soundly beat one in school : WHALE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21944 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21944 clues and answers were published on Fri 07 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21944 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – 16 across, drunk, having very little grey matter : DUSTPAN
5-across – Vulgar Football Supporter’s Pie and Chips, by 22 15? : FANFARE
9-across – One craftier crafty craftsman : ARTIFICER
10-across – Shelter a square blade : TEPEE
11-across – Honk from both ends : TOOT
12-across – Maternity experience reveals feelings about different hospital : MOTHERHOOD
14-across – Welsh or Irish town missing introduction to a yarn : ANGORA
15-across – See 22 : COPLAND
16-across – Don’t show comic entertainment on stage : STANDUP
18-across – Run down by a car: about to get a record of Detroit? : MOTOWN
20-across – A Beaujolais ’51, perhaps, and prime location for the family : LIVINGROOM
21-across – See 24 : RICA
24-across – Acting partner in charge of a republic : COSTA
25-across – Fiddle some more to install model pressure gauge : OSMOMETER
26-across – You have a right to have arguments about taxes : TARIFFS
27-across – Elderly relative cutting cloth : NANKEEN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Sketch with loud oath put about : DRAFT
2-down – A strike you shouldn’t 16 across for : SITDOWN
3-down – Pastry gives you wind : PUFF
4-down – TV and radio personality, Nick, seizes ministers, we hear : NICHOLASPARSONS
5-down – See 5 across : FORTHECOMMONMAN
6-down – Herbal doctor is nuts, or a nut, by the way : NATUROPATH
7-down – A measure of speed, or a classic jar? : AMPHORA
8-down – Pieces entered indeed wrongly should be edited : EMENDED
13-down – During game, new candle showed up 22’s image : GOLDENCALF
16-down – To sell one’s body is very much within the law : SOLICIT
17-down – Counsel of Ovid : ADVISOR
19-down – Tricky game? The French blow it : WHISTLE
22-down – Composer Ronald, a non-drinker, and company, taking the last of four proposed courses of action? : AARON
23-down – The sign of a totally massacred army? : OMEN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21943 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21943 clues and answers were published on Thu 06 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21943 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Such finally gets bagged by countryman? : PHEASANT
9-across – I may enter strange place of large proportions : EPICAL
10-across – Bandage the man following hit : SWATHE
11-across – It’s experienced through hearing a unilateral declaration by politician : AUDITORY
12-across – A neat dwelling : BYRE
13-across – Where we hear the canopy of power may be brought down : OVERTHROWN
15-across – Dear little rodent coming back into place of rest : BELOVED
16-across – Things making a bang give little boy endless fear : TIMPANI
18-across – Maiden has one home recipe – one for possible first course : MINESTRONE
19-across – Muck that gets stomachs turning over : SMUT
20-across – Cutting grass outside always : SEVERING
22-across – New hesitation about monetary unit : RECENT
23-across – Travelling doctor encounters bad temper : MOBILE
24-across – Speculator may get the gold first : THEORIST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Our present circumstances may be novel : THEWAYWELIVENOW
2-down – Sort of reproduction in earphones gets distorted : PARTHENOGENESIS
3-down – Man using force, one out to be evil : MALEVOLENT
4-down – Vessel set out towards a foreign sea : STEAMER
5-down – Regard daughter as offspring : SEED
6-down – You can’t write much on it – produce script at random : PICTUREPOSTCARD
7-down – Northern town’s funnier characters involved in arguments in pubs : BARROWINFURNESS
14-down – Cloth goes with bathroom items : TOILETRIES
17-down – In brotherhood ought you to appear valiant? : DOUGHTY
21-down – Wild animal in the same place no longer : IBEX

This crossword has in total 24 where 14 are across and 10 are down.

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