Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21990 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21990 clues and answers were published on Wed 30 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21990 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Lads can be involved in dishonour : SCANDAL
8-across – Gear cobbler used : CLOBBER
10-across – Veiled intruder in Poulenc overture : COVERT
11-across – Kind of order that’s never found out : ENCLOSED
12-across – Transport for the reserve team : TAXI
13-across – But it could be handy in a put-up job : STEPLADDER
14-across – Cheap drink! It makes for an expansive habit : FARTHINGALE
19-across – Supply cars in dodgy trade : ADMINISTER
22-across – Puppet following party lines : DOLL
23-across – Most comedians admit disappointment : COMEDOWN
24-across – Houses like Westminster! : ABBEYS
25-across – Soldier, foul-mouthed in simile or trope, perhaps : TROOPER
26-across – Bishop nearly provoked flattery : BLARNEY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – One who does good turns : ACROBAT
2-down – Girl who is sweet on tarts, perhaps : ANGELICA
3-down – Drink soft sparkling wines : PASTIS
4-down – Colour on scab : BLACKLEG
5-down – Exotic Baroda is foreign to me : ABROAD
6-down – The youngest in the form! : LEVERET
9-down – Drink as a rule in 24 : BENEDICTINE
15-down – Made to derail : TAILORED
16-down – The insect for Mother Goose? : LADYBIRD
17-down – Stop messing around with Jack : ADJOURN
18-down – It keeps children occupied with toys : PLAYPEN
20-down – Reserve place in theatre for freezer : ICEBOX
21-down – Actually make friends again : REALLY

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21989 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21989 clues and answers were published on Tue 29 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21989 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Noel – and awfully rude butting in – carried drink for historical novelist : ALEXANDREDUMAS
8-across – Brad’s nabs? : NAILS
9-across – Endless Soviet labour camp fenced by stake with spikes : ANGULATE
11-across – Countryman is game, giving up heroin : PEASANT
12-across – Salve! Latin soon takes over the Italian … : LANOLIN
13-across – … therefore concluding Vatican business : ERGON
15-across – What’s Espagnol to one Russian composer is Italien to another : CAPRICCIO
17-across – Paramount, say the majority : UTTERMOST
20-across – Drops off sound draughts : DOSES
21-across – Tandoor cooking, though aromatic, … : ODORANT
23-across – … may be tasteless: dunk one’s naan first, add third spice, then serve up : INSIPID
25-across – Let Gore know it’s not a black tie do : INFORMAL
26-across – It’s comparatively skilful to take head off a header, you say? : ABLER
27-across – Take the garden in hand – refuse to be budged : HOLDONESGROUND

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Purse stealer found in p-prison faced rogue – 7 : ASNAPPERUPOF
2-down – Girl – the last to be embraced by essayist : ELIZA
3-down – Sailor’s instructor has no right to be the one who never gets soaked : ABSTAINER
4-down – It’s brought in by Jack, maybe, and raised over-the-top : DRASTIC
5-down – Not the last to steal up to take horse to drink : EGGFLIP
6-down – Prussian soldier picked up by divisional hussar : UHLAN
7-down – A character in the tale, Lucy’s come to grief backing the car : AUTOLYCUS
10-down – See 1 : UNCONSIDERED
14-down – Stoop to roll up one’s sleeves? : GETDOWNTO
16-down – At one’s wits’ end, dines out with partners : INDESPAIR
18-down – The seat of Empire? : OTTOMAN
19-down – See 1 : TRIFLES
22-down – Audibly state owned? : ALOUD
24-down – Having lost the manual, I persist in holding up the dish : PILAU

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21988 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21988 clues and answers were published on Mon 28 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21988 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Opened up an alfresco feast : OUTSPREAD
6-across – Game may be caught by a man with craft : CHESS
9-across – Awesome oriental lake : EERIE
10-across – Unusual police function : ARRESTING
11-across – Mugs people in the street – a charge results : ASSESSMENT
12-across – A beast, though not with women : STAG
14-across – The wretched have no ____ , or so wrote Dryden : FRIENDS
15-across – Stand with outstretched arms on the dinner table! : EPERGNE
17-across – Book put by for a rainy day? : RESERVE
19-across – Out – in – out: it can be good training : TUITION
20-across – Looked over a newspaper leader about the demode : EYED
22-across – Take account of rise in value : APPRECIATE
25-across – Silence on changes effected – such boldness! : INSOLENCE
26-across – Say there’s nothing in immorality : VOICE
27-across – Commanding gun carrying soldiers : GREAT
28-across – An illness that can excite interest about one : ENTERITIS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Foreign character, part of a fearsome gang : OMEGA
2-down – Goes quiet – it’s due to the old kitchen equipment : TURNSPITS
3-down – Left surrounded by rustics, make some quip : PLEASANTRY
4-down – A theologian taking ages over a piece of music : ERASMUS
5-down – Grandee’s letters fomenting disorder : DERANGE
6-down – Many refuse ready money : CASH
7-down – An order incorrectly cited : EDICT
8-down – Dull-coloured flag, say, never raised : SAGEGREEN
13-down – See, not for the first time, about underworld protection : REDISCOVER
14-down – Anticipatory – like television viewers! : FARSEEING
16-down – A sound man, having some pluck : GUITARIST
18-down – The cost of installing coops in a river : EXPENSE
19-down – Great rush to hire outside right : TORRENT
21-down – Follow directions – and then use wrongly : ENSUE
23-down – Odds, oddly enough : EVENS
24-down – A residence that lowers the tone? : FLAT

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21986 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21986 clues and answers were published on Fri 25 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21986 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – About to put one’s name down for leave : RESIGN
4-across – The wild hounds bay : HUDSON
9-across – One that’s unwelcome near an organ stop, perhaps : PERSONANONGRATA
10-across – A high official, namely one meeting the Queen : VIZIER
11-across – Mower repaired in metal coating is affected by age : TIMEWORN
12-across – A doctor’s meeting : AMORALLY
14-across – Draw made at random : DOODLE
15-across – Some backing for clever idea for a fastener : VELCRO
18-across – Pelisse : SKISLOPE
21-across – Case load for a tree surgeon? : TRUNKFUL
22-across – Coating with yellow bit of emulsion produces uproar : FURORE
24-across – It’s crisis time – I’ve dropped what goes with the fish : THECHIPSAREDOWN
25-across – New verse about butterflies : NERVES
26-across – Cause of infuriation on trail : REDRAG

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Element of drink, including helium and nickel : RHENIUM
2-down – Eastern dish by consensus highly commended : SUSHI
3-down – The officer’s in this as a rule : GENERAL
5-down – The tot will be before the christening : UNNAMED
6-down – Left to cut blemishes shown up by quick survey : STRAWPOLL
7-down – Order could be At ease! : NATURAL
8-down – Wood is often hard : KNOTTY
13-down – It could be on track for a record : RACINGCAR
16-down – Pots could be near the cooking : EARTHEN
17-down – Forward could be – of strong team : OFFSIDE
18-down – Addition to alcoholic drink made by dive? : SPLASH
19-down – At home, press is effective : INFORCE
20-down – Fairy to rate old headgear : PERIWIG
23-down – Acting school right to produce directing equipment : RADAR

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21985 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21985 clues and answers were published on Thu 24 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21985 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Part of horse’s back becomes dry and shrivelled : WITHERS
5-across – A set of new books, one which in Paris would be seen as old : ANTIQUE
9-across – Shiite leader always getting a number of people killed – my! : AYATOLLAH
10-across – This palm needs cold in the region : ARECA
11-across – King, one to act crazy! : KNUT
12-across – Very big object that’s kept below : THUNDERING
14-across – There’s a superficial pretence with the archdeacon always : VENEER
15-across – Look at young man going the wrong way, a disgrace : SCANDAL
16-across – Heavenly body’s very good when clothed in rough fabric, right? : JUPITER
18-across – Business information put into account before start of year : AGENCY
20-across – Drama instructor comes in vintage vehicle : STAGECOACH
21-across – Till the cows come home here? : FARM
24-across – Something on the building site to make yours truly smile : IBEAM
25-across – One short meal allocation – and what Oliver would have liked! : ITERATION
26-across – Sailors from ‘ere getting leave : ABSENCE
27-across – Party enjoyment – I being hugged may be most stupid : DOZIEST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Women kick and hit : WHACK
2-down – Have nothing good to say about cease-fire coming without notice : TRADUCE
3-down – Cupid can help make lover ostentatious : EROS
4-down – Pours elixir out with thud – a corrosive mixture : SULPHURTRIOXIDE
5-down – Ancient eras had a different statement of Christian belief : ATHANASIANCREED
6-down – Titles of commercial products could make admen stare : TRADENAMES
7-down – Asked about what might be required when leader’s gone : QUERIED
8-down – Christian message on part of church that’s seen when looking up : EVANGEL
13-down – We shall get a bit of heat and even bits of rain, according to him : WEATHERMAN
16-down – Leather strap, one around a female : JESSICA
17-down – Cast aside, in two parts as it were : PLAYERS
19-down – Poison may turn nice day nasty : CYANIDE
22-down – Painter turned up two hours before midday : MANET
23-down – Make fun of artist, character coming last repeatedly : RAZZ

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

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