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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21942 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21942 clues and answers were published on Wed 05 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21942 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Typical part of a log : CHARACTERISTIC
9-across – Stack of old coins at stately home, perhaps : NOBLEPILE
10-across – Hood for a bird? : ROBIN
11-across – Resin from twist of oriental lime : ELEMI
12-across – Room lawyers go to for a comfortable drink? : LOUNGEBAR
13-across – Got a rent regulated at a certain figure : TETRAGON
14-across – Nothing in crew’s accommodation to suggest deed with third party : ESCROW
17-across – In fairy tale she may be found having to go back to get right letter : OGRESS
19-across – Programme expressing the broad view : PANORAMA
22-across – Seeming to act as representing another : APPEARING
24-across – Sharply defined as ‘free from dirt’ : CLEAN
25-across – Long cloth associated with gunrunning in ’51 : LUNGI
26-across – Long time choosing to go out working : OPERATING
27-across – Plead guilty, having let crowd into the department store at start of sale : ADMITTHECHARGE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Associate attending assembly in customary fashion : CONVENTIONALLY
2-down – Going round with a doctor: that is, by the book : AMBIENT
3-down – They won independence for boy in a man’s environment : AMERICANS
4-down – It means a million times more to us than 3 : TRILLION
5-down – Hers, surprisingly, states: It’s a monkey : RHESUS
6-down – Young person spelling garb : SPRIG
7-down – He takes a drink and I am taking a bribe, unfortunately : IMBIBER
8-down – Crewe garden in shambles, declares philanthropist : ANDREWCARNEGIE
15-down – Late trainer not renowned for speed : SLOWCOACH
16-down – Frenchman joining working party? What rot! : GANGRENE
18-down – Mature writer in dire circumstances : RIPENED
20-down – Don’t tell the truth about false rate for workshop : ATELIER
21-down – Success with unfashionable attempt to strike : HITOUT
23-down – Plea to hold small party in first-class accommodation : ALIBI

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21941 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21941 clues and answers were published on Tue 04 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21941 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – WWII fighter pilot, holding king captive, used to make cakes : BAKINGPOWDER
8-across – Master of Titanic in charge of bird turning tail : ICEBERG
9-across – I’m continent in the morning; so I care to move : AMERICA
11-across – Like baby needing holiday permit? : TRIPLET
12-across – Wiggle toes in hat: an awkward position : HOTSEAT
13-across – In novel, Gingerbread Man who collected marbles? : ELGIN
14-across – Carpet tool rests against stone held by miner : AXMINSTER
16-across – Restyled red velour rejected : OVERRULED
19-across – Mexican snack for doctor outside a church : NACHO
21-across – Try to shield English MP in violent storm : TEMPEST
23-across – Coward takes in catch coming back in the Med : LEBANON
24-across – Nobleman that is right to appear more quickly : EARLIER
25-across – Fatty Labour girl goes back to model : ADIPOSE
26-across – Fickle lover having courage to wave : HEARTBREAKER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Concocting half a breast and a wing : BREWING
2-down – Milk and one of two equal parts of rennet churned up in Russian citadel : KREMLIN
3-down – It’s dusk and a man is heard to drop : NIGHTFALL
4-down – Attractive young woman to turn informer : PEACH
5-down – Wholemeal: how soon about to swallow? : WHEATEN
6-down – What’s notable is mine preserved in elastic net : EMINENT
7-down – Winner has the courage to drink heavily : HITTHEBOTTLE
10-down – Light meal, in style of almost nobody, to eat out : AFTERNOONTEA
15-down – Doctor of Divinity divides up profit in riper years : MIDDLEAGE
17-down – Centre of well re-made meter is wooden : ELMTREE
18-down – Not starting to be greedier, so thinner : REEDIER
19-down – Bin overturned with small amount found in club : NIBLICK
20-down – Honesty demands unfinished candy belonging to us : CANDOUR
22-down – This pound comes from the bottomless mug : THROB

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21940 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21940 clues and answers were published on Mon 03 Jul 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21940 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Buttons said to represent danger to sailors : BELLBUOY
9-across – Made to smile by a thought? : AMUSED
10-across – The advantage of keenness : EDGE
11-across – When it leaks, it’s hard to stop : BRAKEFLUID
12-across – Twice appearing as an understudy : DOUBLE
14-across – Time off for his lady-love, perhaps : HOLIDAYS
15-across – They go along with kinky corsets : ESCORTS
17-across – Where one lives a little in Panama, for example : HABITAT
20-across – No racehorse alive is one : DEADCERT
22-across – She made her name in production of Hamlet : THELMA
23-across – Ritual miracle one produces : CEREMONIAL
24-across – What dogs do around trees : BARK
25-across – Did this hen lay the golden eggs? : GUINEA
26-across – Refinement, for example, in an eastern weapon : ELEGANCE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Mortality figures are a complete write-off : DEADLOSS
2-down – This may lead us to the light : CLUE
3-down – Fraudulent scheme in a soap by-product? : BUBBLE
4-down – Sideways? : BYPATHS
5-down – Blooming beast of burden that has trouble getting up : CAMELLIA
6-down – Pondered over the beef, we hear, and warmed drink : MULLEDWINE
7-down – It’s frivolous having a tax about it : LEVITY
13-down – They’re widely grown for eating : BROADBEANS
16-down – What the driver needs on the whole is to be sober : TEETOTAL
18-down – What gunrunners take part in? : ARMSRACE
19-down – Match for a football player : STRIKER
21-down – Place that was hellish before getting public transport : EREBUS
22-down – Rang the bell as instructed, say : TOLLED
24-down – Its vicar was always ready to accept a new sovereign : BRAY

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21938 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21938 clues and answers were published on Fri 30 Jun 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21938 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Trail despoils, they say, after time : TRAIPSE
5-across – Confused by wild oat sown in 1 down? : CHAOTIC
9-across – Praise is, in this context, oleaginous : EXTOL
10-across – Choose the players to throw out : CASTASIDE
11-across – He nominates doctor, one Greats don : DESIGNATOR
12-across – Run rings round Pole left here : OSLO
14-across – Special scientific interest in genetic modification leads to muttering : MUSSITATION
18-across – Expectant boy and European girl set about stir-crazy night hunter : PIPISTRELLE
21-across – Face up to being put down? : LAID
22-across – Taken off in a reverie : ABSTRACTED
25-across – Still leave off going around scene back to front : QUIESCENT
26-across – Told to make an effort to exercise? Codswallop! : TRIPE
27-across – Mouth 1 down English? : ESTUARY
28-across – Biting trill is heard : MORDANT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Close encountered in an attempt to get in : TRENDY
2-down – Rumbling tum is a childhood abnormality? : AUTISM
3-down – A keen Union man, they say Perkins failed utterly to accept Georgia : POLYGAMIST
4-down – Set a clue in Western Australia : EUCLA
5-down – A sentence to be penned? : CUSTODIAL
6-down – Growing culture revealed by Saga readers? : AGAR
7-down – Secondary system’s spasm circumscribes Scripture simpleton : TRIASSIC
8-down – About … about 100 kilos will be material : CRETONNE
13-down – Fellow-broker may be a gangster : MALEFACTOR
15-down – Where in the garden to bury herbs, perhaps? : SHRUBBERY
16-down – One question about fruit is: What is 21 on? : APPLIQUE
17-down – Choose to admit Henman is one to see the sunny side : OPTIMIST
19-down – Set up an Italian city in the territory of Athens : ATTICA
20-down – Coming from no middle-aged outlet : ADVENT
23-down – Maiden follows bear to the pole : TOTEM
24-down – Bones turn up when thus : OSSA

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21937 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21937 clues and answers were published on Thu 29 Jun 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21937 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Heartless Moslem returns, clutching youngster in erotic fantasy : INCUBUS
8-across – Short ordinand lost and found in fire : ANDIRON
10-across – Artist reflecting unpromising start in weeds : SEURAT
11-across – Expat re-mating abroad : EMIGRANT
12-across – Hooray for exam! : VIVA
13-across – Visionary, for example, in calmer surroundings : SOOTHSAYER
14-across – Guardian flipped lid, embraced by queen in burned waste : CHILDMINDER
19-across – Unfinished row of unfinished housing in clay : TERRACOTTA
22-across – Song to delight : GLEE
23-across – Firm negative about safe bet on showpiece : CONCERTO
24-across – Greeting in reverse sheds light : IGNITE
25-across – Hot stuff embodies colourless redemption : PIMENTO
26-across – Catch Fitzgerald’s disease : RUBELLA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Meanwhile having fit about Oriental : INTERIM
2-down – Pastoral care elicits shocking Teutonic outburst : OUTREACH
3-down – One responsible for perverting Scouts : CUSTOS
4-down – Dump Beethoven’s Fifth amid unknown music : ANTIPHON
5-down – Compiler’s wrong to join Nazis in the mountains : SIERRA
6-down – Trounce 16th century backlash? : COUNTER
9-down – See 6 : REFORMATION
15-down – Tear open with spike charge : LACERATE
16-down – Initiate information in Terminator : ENGENDER
17-down – Guitarist to turn 6 into water : SEGOVIA
18-down – Fired up in what’s inherited, not chosen : GENTILE
20-down – Was Chair in Old Popular Music his raison d’etre? : ROCKER
21-down – Hostility of bird turning on American : ANIMUS

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

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