Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21924 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21924 clues and answers were published on Wed 14 Jun 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21924 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Scratch the match : LUCIFER
5-across – Shock features about dress : APPAREL
9-across – To reach this steep : SATURATIONPOINT
10-across – Yellow’s right in the firing line : OCHRE
11-across – Prove bad debtor’s beat : OVERPOWER
12-across – Put tight cover on ex-PM in quarters : ENSHEATHE
14-across – True alloy’s mixed : LOYAL
15-across – Boat-building, say? : CRAFT
16-across – Riot at charges to get in? : GATECRASH
18-across – A circular unit’s housing 100 idyllic peasants : ARCADIANS
21-across – Popular urban retreat – fields in the country : RURAL
22-across – What O is, if M is head of MI5? : SECONDINCOMMAND
23-across – Cosh used to provide protection : SANDBAG
24-across – Opening base sounds truly brilliant : SILVERY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Supple plant written up in fiction : LISSOME
2-down – Beasts trap Charlie Chan : CATCHASCATCHCAN
3-down – Stuffing’s knocked out of meercat : FORCEMEAT
4-down – Say, one to five in operation : RATIO
5-down – A sound declaration of intended reconciliation : ATONEMENT
6-down – Cub takes work that arises by itself : POPUP
7-down – Subject of engineer’s line drawing? : RAILWAYCARRIAGE
8-down – Coming after a little opening to the side : LATERAL
13-down – Material’s insulation value to grill : TOGRATING
14-down – ‘E’s out to leach rye meal of drops : LACHRYMAL
15-down – Short description of Princess Anne’s body? : CHASSIS
17-down – Billieês recess : HOLIDAY
19-down – 1Bow welcoming Orient’s rising star : DENEB
20-down – Swipes hose : SOCKS

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21923 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21923 clues and answers were published on Tue 13 Jun 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21923 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Girl embracing friend and mum in holiday location : LASPALMAS
10-across – Hesitation about wanting rogue to come back : RECUR
11-across – Short-tempered with prices falling? : BEARISH
12-across – Workers, perhaps, associated with religious organisations : INSECTS
13-across – Arab who may be taken aback by frost : EMIR
14-across – A brawl without anyone facing charges? : FREEFORALL
16-across – Something that may have damaged tree endlessly, small thing : TERMITE
17-across – Harmful female restricted by man in charge : MALEFIC
19-across – Deeply religious friend agog after conversion : GODFEARING
22-across – Valley – and not in England somehow! : GLEN
24-across – What may give campers a night out with the stars? : BIVOUAC
25-across – We tots, moving to piano, dance : TWOSTEP
26-across – Foreign city that can’t quite offer enough for sect member : ESSEN
27-across – Rejection of motorway has male entering individual tree : PERSIMMON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Feminist, perhaps, in newspaper, one to expose publicly as silly gossip : FLIBBERTIGIBBET
2-down – Rip easel apart, making new framework : ESPALIER
3-down – Husband rather displaying a uniform response : HABIT
4-down – A battered hamper containing round jars : AMPHORAE
5-down – Hope is what a church may have : ASPIRE
6-down – Realist to upset philosopher : ARISTOTLE
7-down – Bill joins a security organisation – it has a number of branches : ACACIA
8-down – Various beetles in crop and in tree : BRISTLECONEPINE
15-down – Poet has pretension over hair : SIDEBURNS
17-down – Threatening minister: a member of the Opposition? : MINATORY
18-down – Like many a worker when the whistle goes : FULLTIME
20-down – Strip club of low repute on the street : DIVEST
21-down – Plan fully developed to bypass city area : RECIPE
23-down – One inside betrayed firm : SOLID

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21922 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21922 clues and answers were published on Mon 12 Jun 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21922 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Book champion boxer? : LORDOFTHERINGS
9-across – An animal unlikely to be overlooked : GIRAFFE
10-across – Back possibly sore after the finish : ENDORSE
11-across – Label a pair socially unacceptable : TABOO
12-across – One who used to teach painting : OLDMASTER
13-across – Fair assessment of those not beyond redemption : NOTTOOBAD
14-across – He sculpted a man embracing a girl : RODIN
15-across – Show into Poe’s house? : USHER
17-across – The means I contrived to control the sail : MAINSHEET
20-across – Experiment on patients may set precedents : TESTCASES
22-across – Ideal leader for daily paper : DREAM
23-across – Girls get degrees without a study : MAIDENS
24-across – I get new angles about payments for newspaper articles : LINAGES
25-across – Gives no indication : SHAKESONESHEAD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – You should be switched on by this : LIGHTINGUPTIME
2-down – Savoury portion, not well cooked : RAREBIT
3-down – Blue and not feeling well : OFFCOLOUR
4-down – Article on lack of personal hygiene by doctor may be a deterrent : THEBOMB
5-down – Turn me over – that’s better! : EMENDED
6-down – Test side batting needs help in upset : INDIA
7-down – Turned into a dreadful tragedy : GYRATED
8-down – Victorian expression of disapproval : WEARENOTAMUSED
14-down – Occupiers who pay neither top nor bottom in rents : RESIDENTS
16-down – Finding cannabis will settle his hash : HASHISH
17-down – Broods about one’s exploits : MISUSES
18-down – It’s specifically used by diabetics : INSULIN
19-down – Green damaged after record stand : EPERGNE
21-down – The nerve of the chap : CHEEK

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21920 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21920 clues and answers were published on Fri 09 Jun 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21920 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – King Charles holding miss tighter : CLOSER
5-across – Florence dominated by struggle : FLOUNDER
9-across – Set free none with soul in torment : UNLOOSEN
10-across – RAF man sitting inside only console : SOLACE
11-across – For reclining, his canoe is fixed with glue : CHAISELONGUE
13-across – Mother of Paris seen in lake : MERE
14-across – It’s essential to break tin with broad back : INTEGRAL
17-across – Summoning by bell, tense with suspicion : TINKLING
18-across – Uniform is unruffled : EVEN
20-across – Side of beef with cover for stargazers? : SILVERSCREEN
23-across – Is attractive when married with silver bag : MAGNET
24-across – Quick inspection long ago finished : ONCEOVER
25-across – Paper carrier? : NEWSGIRL
26-across – Allowed to imprison demon and hanger-on : LIMPET

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Stroke a crocodile? : LINE
3-down – Fleck on pattern of squares not covering everyone : SPOTCHECK
4-down – Fellow sun-god has short climb : RASCAL
5-down – Winding up poker players, perhaps, in girls’ establishment : FINISHINGSCHOOL
6-down – Being old, died single at half-term : OBSOLETE
7-down – Company longs to show what is in hosiery : NYLON
8-down – Shut up about our being fostered! : ENCOURAGED
12-down – Congratulate this cat: I feel it moving : FELICITATE
15-down – Ecological space for those off stage : GREENROOM
16-down – Baby-sitter bills holding up the books : LIBRETTI
19-down – Type of skirt, but where is the point of it? : PENCIL
21-down – At six, boy rises to get some plonk : VINOS
22-down – In this place he must join the Royal Engineers : HERE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21919 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21919 clues and answers were published on Thu 08 Jun 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21919 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Provider of food made a hole in the salad : CATERESS
5-across – Shopping area aboard ship supplies underwear : SMALLS
9-across – Arraign a rowdy land reformer : AGRARIAN
10-across – Girl holds soldier displaying painful condition : ANGINA
12-across – Daring individual making do with shared expenses : BOTTLEPARTY
15-across – Honest Frenchman’s domain : REALM
17-across – Sharp implement requires insurance by proposed law : HEDGEBILL
18-across – Make unwilling ponies relaxed with Sid : INDISPOSE
19-across – Duplicate bridge player’s in a knot : TWINE
20-across – Come to understand rage’s inconsequential : SEETHELIGHT
24-across – Article’s focus is God : ANUBIS
25-across – Old general in Riga brewed drink : AGRICOLA
26-across – Impressive number invested in trophy : POTENT
27-across – Pick-pockets backed accepting grant in sterling : SPLENDID

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Legislative body has money for wine : CHAMBERTIN
2-down – Communist receives a caution over Socialist fortune-tellers : TAROTCARDS
3-down – Road over a river in the country : RURAL
4-down – Sniper notes owl : SHARPSHOOTER
6-down – Dicky met Boleyn in place of security : MONEYBELT
7-down – Premier decapitated in retreat : LAIR
8-down – Principal gives up deserters : STAR
11-down – Supply a need for game fellow, good during strike : BRIDGETHEGAP
13-down – Doctor stifling row over gangster’s headgear : RIDINGHOOD
14-down – The lad ends confusion, sitting on the dealer’s left : ELDESTHAND
16-down – Wrongly give Military Intelligence crack troops’ warning : MISASSIGN
21-down – Beliefs about island in river : LOIRE
22-down – Coquette put on a new face : VAMP
23-down – Money for boat : PUNT

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

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