Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21984 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21984 clues and answers were published on Wed 23 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21984 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Create extra strain for a biologist : CROSSFERTILISE
8-across – Is one prepared to walk out for a wedding? : UNION
9-across – First pairs chosen are coloured alike – dark grey : CHARCOAL
11-across – Run 20, getting hungry at last – like some bacon? : STREAKY
12-across – Stop travelling overseas : HEAVETO
13-across – Nick passage for piano Tchaikovsky used : NOTCH
15-across – Air of unrequited love transformed mostly corny ghost : TORCHSONG
17-across – Come to steal from trendy lords and ladies? : WAKEROBIN
20-across – Wearing suit received for birthday : NAKED
21-across – In which one conspires about Scots, showing irritation : CAHOOTS
23-across – Lassie translated to accommodate one part of Europe : SILESIA
25-across – Dismiss ethnic origin in sports day event : SACKRACE
26-across – Support leads to 50% of vote – well done! : BRAVO
27-across – Behave like Rumpelstiltskin, maybe, where one’s haunted : STAMPINGGROUND

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Port served after all mem-bers had hefty snack : CLUBSANDWICH
2-down – More comfortable after pollarding willow : OSIER
3-down – Someone getting browned off, still on the beach : SUNBATHER
4-down – To conceal meaning of record, PC had to swap two letters : ENCRYPT
5-down – In a class of my own, should I be true to form? : TEACHER
6-down – Clinging fabric sported by Darcy? Lizzie’s taken aback : LYCRA
7-down – Routine preparation – does it make you spit? : SPADEWORK
10-down – Person showing crude quality, potentially brilliant : ROUGHDIAMOND
14-down – Be encouraged by sequence of film – earth-shattering! : TAKEHEART
16-down – Cope with pub that’s used by bikers : HANDLEBAR
18-down – Graduate’s mum finally going off Tim Rice’s style : BASMATI
19-down – Gets in information about object of savings policy : NESTEGG
22-down – Approval given, without a hint of hesitation, for stopgap material : OAKUM
24-down – This situation starts to seem naughty and frankly untoward : SNAFU

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21983 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21983 clues and answers were published on Tue 22 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21983 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Contribution one wild enthusiast keeps quiet : INPUT
4-across – Point many in the country take note of : INDICATE
8-across – 10 president left out – safe bet in six pieces of music : VIOLINCONCERTO
10-across – Guardian compiler seen outside pub : SHEPHERD
11-across – German article about pub grub : DINNER
12-across – I sternly criticise a sinful city : ISLAMABAD
15-across – Unenthusiastic about parliament’s reception of president : TEPID
17-across – High priest wielding an oar : AARON
18-across – Noble game in song reflected by precocious score : EARLYGOAL
19-across – Overdo amateur joinery, trapping end of digit – a strange result : ODDITY
21-across – Nude must confess to eating a 99 : ADAMITIC
24-across – Source of 4 25 8 transformed first part of 8 : ANTONIOVIVALDI
25-across – Guarantee covering a boy at certain times only : SEASONAL
26-across – Poles in German city : ESSEN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Detective has starter con-taining cored vegetable : INVESTIGATOR
2-down – Driver with decent length inserted : PROPELLER
3-down – Pat’s alternative shirt : TRISH
4-down – Become liable to fit : INCURABLE
5-down – Boy king in need of an airing : DANK
6-down – Experiment on short shirt in the name of science : CHEMISTRY
7-down – Moon’s metal-clad volunteers : TITAN
9-down – First choice tip the Parisian accepted : PREDILECTION
13-down – Sun Motors, manufacturing giant : MONSTROUS
14-down – Reckless character left serious crimes to the lawyer : DAREDEVIL
16-down – Architectural features of poor housing received by the lower classes : PROSTYLES
20-down – Say fling about’ in Scandinavia : DANCE
22-down – Picture getting doctor to compete : MOVIE
23-down – Bearing on the origins of Middle English : MIEN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21982 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21982 clues and answers were published on Mon 21 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21982 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Reproduction of a man’s oil painting : MONALISA
9-across – Lemons and melons may come from here : LEMNOS
10-across – Lincoln died sleeping? Apparently so : ABED
11-across – Proverbially it implies madness : OUTOFSIGHT
12-across – Tugboat? : LUGGER
14-across – Christmas visitors can include one conjuror : MAGICIAN
15-across – Lose wind when seeking muddy shoal in Cheshire estuary : DEFLATE
17-across – The sort ready to compose something impressive? : TYPESET
20-across – Nuts? You’ll need these : CRACKERS
22-across – Property gets one thousand short of estimate : ESTATE
23-across – He’s against accepting royalties : REPUBLICAN
24-across – A mother for the first orphan? : ADAM
25-across – Tenant in the French diocese : LESSEE
26-across – Example set by the ancients, maybe : INSTANCE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A strapless top is a mistake on the Underground : BOOBTUBE
2-down – Worker provides assistance : HAND
3-down – Potency of port half an hour later : VIGOUR
4-down – Old man’s period for diversion : PASTIME
5-down – Godly foe disposed to be reactionary : OLDFOGEY
6-down – In error, since I’m not all-knowing : OMNISCIENT
7-down – She may out pantihose, but not net : SOPHIA
13-down – Was it designed for handicapped drivers? : GOLFCOURSE
16-down – Music of the Depression? : THEBLUES
18-down – Charm one’s way in : ENTRANCE
19-down – Possibly spy on fashionable medium : PSYCHIC
21-down – Smoking jacket? : REEFER
22-down – Hemingway or Sterne, perhaps : ERNEST
24-down – Just open – so have a glass of ale : AJAR

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21980 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21980 clues and answers were published on Fri 18 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21980 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Orally support a vessel : AMPHORA
5-across – Bandage pillion-riding women : SWADDLE
9-across – Thanks for gathering a velvet starfish, maybe : HARVESTFESTIVAL
10-across – Nothing in the basics after ‘e makes blunder : ERROR
11-across – In return match fellow’s replaced by team leader before first side netted : RETICULAR
12-across – Straw mattress spells trouble to girl in gym : PAILLASSE
14-across – Run away girl drops pen : ELOPE
15-across – Retrospectively drive off outcast : LEPER
16-across – Naturally belonging in a missing sequence thus : INTRINSIC
18-across – Top beetle? : WHIRLIGIG
21-across – It is not commonly corrupt : TAINT
22-across – Apologising for oriental thingumajig in competent dish : EATINGHUMBLEPIE
23-across – Old instrument – in the wind section? : SERPENT
24-across – Place for things to go : OUTTRAY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Refuse pile of cash he appropriated : ASHHEAP
2-down – Drink drowns characteristic suffering in one representing people : PORTRAITPAINTER
3-down – Umpire, perhaps, of last appeal? : OVERRULER
4-down – Right off the beam when following : AFTER
5-down – Confection from sugary substance : SWEETMEAT
6-down – Room at the Top in Greek : ATTIC
7-down – One who thinks Satan’s cooler about rising turmoil? : DEVILWORSHIPPER
8-down – Expand the General Assembly : ENLARGE
13-down – Catapult fish into vessel on boiling : SLINGSHOT
14-down – Peg’s back, admitting small arm produces short letter : EPISTOLET
15-down – Unruly without holding boring instrument : LAWLESS
17-down – Table things in Franglais to downsize the SNCF? : CUTLERY
19-down – Unclean weapon? : LANCE
20-down – Lady’s fingers smell with sticky stuff on : GUMBO

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21979 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21979 clues and answers were published on Thu 17 Aug 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21979 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Boy’s ambition to go with Virgin ere end appears? : ENGINE
5-across – So-and-so vicar’s baptismal request? : WHATSHIS
9-across – At the heart of remembered sleep, let’s start to misappropriate : EMBEZZLE
10-across – Saying When ought to show what you’ve had : ENOUGH
11-across – 1 23 and 26 are enemies: plot incompetently at separating them? : FOOTPLATEMEN
13-across – Put down one’s nose? : SNUB
14-across – See 22 : SAISQUOI
17-across – Vegetable cooked by a cleric without energy : CELERIAC
18-across – The oriental heaven is a form of cold storage : ESKY
20-across – Principal expression at Roundhill getsgoing : STARTERMOTOR
23-across – See 1 : DRIVER
24-across – Changed over, on, or off : SWITCHED
25-across – A quick coffee? : ESPRESSO
26-across – Fireman associated with vampires : STOKER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – See 5 across : NAME
3-down – Awfully fine story, too good to put into words? : INEFFABLE
4-down – The fossil that wasn’t one broken outside the menagerie : EOZOON
5-down – Pooh’s hums – even the cows can do them with increased forward pressure : WHENPUSHCOMESTO
6-down – Caveman partly on song, a sacred one : AVEMARIA
7-down – See 5 : SHOVE
8-down – Warm places in the valley the Ordnance Survey has correctly included : INGLENOOKS
12-down – Contracts among sets that may be false : INDENTURES
15-down – Cubist, second half first, with companion round hardwood tree : QUEBRACHO
16-down – Guns, if raised, back original work : FIREARMS
19-down – Tommy’s flowers have lost their tops : ATKINS
21-down – Dog going right across? : ROVER
22-down – Jo is Queen, as I wanted, having that mysterious quality : JENE

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

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