Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21764 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21764 clues and answers were published on Thu 09 Dec 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21764 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Worker on edge for hymn … : ANTHEM
4-across – … or Irish county : ANTRIM
9-across – Once the highest position for an Afghan was a space station : AMIR
10-across – See 12 : NINETYNINE
11-across – No Eton rower when born by right enters backwards : DRYBOB
12-across – Now mostly mime in capitals : NINETEEN
13-across – Burdened dragging pole, so rested : SLUMBERED
15-across – A little peck is seen here : KISS
16-across – It’s common to ponder for an informer : FINK
17-across – Artist destroyed Lost Dream : OLDMASTER
21-across – German tennis player about to take money in sport is well off! : FARFLUNG
22-across – One speeds, say, in the country : RUSSIA
24-across – Correspondence with letters reported : CONSONANCE
25-across – The whole thing can turn around : UNIT
26-across – So-called model horse just originally concealed? : TROJAN
27-across – Exploding bullet sounds doubly 8 : DUMDUM

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Navy high flier or red delicate flier : ADMIRAL
2-down – Pulse in broth : THROB
3-down – Hat almost upside-down the French will honour : ENNOBLE
5-down – Observing naught is heartless : NOTING
6-down – Possums’ call, the reverse call : RINGTAILS
7-down – Girl minded by married woman should exhibit good behaviour : MANNERS
8-down – Marriage without love: inform the single man that’s stupid : UNINTELLIGENT
14-down – Pre-election promises make some faint : MANIFESTO
16-down – Lying down as fast as possible : FLATOUT
18-down – French entertainer’s camera work for Universal : MARCEAU
19-down – Savouring cream for energy, settled on one’s top of the milk : ELITISM
20-down – Twenty-one shillings for fowl … : GUINEA
23-down – … or mollusc : SQUID

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21763 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21763 clues and answers were published on Wed 08 Dec 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21763 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – One’s wooden and stuck up and no longer orating! : OFFSTUMP
5-across – Wind from American prairie? : FLATUS
9-across – Examined fashionable drug seen round odd parts of city : INSPECTED
11-across – Stop sideshow : STALL
12-across – Cowardly island shows leadership in sport : YELLOWJERSEY
15-across – Work displayed in shop usually : OPUS
16-across – It’s calculated to enslave, so to speak : DELIBERATE
18-across – Ancient monument gets ruined when one bird nests in it : STONEHENGE
19-across – Fifty old books by one French novelist : LOTI
21-across – Pro a town site being redeveloped for electricity establishment : POWERSTATION
24-across – Eclipse brings alfresco party? : OUTDO
25-across – You’re hated, without love, tormented? Look back with regret : RUETHEDAY
26-across – County clique after return of corporal punishment : DORSET
27-across – Good person to encourage 2 : STURGEON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Miss showing sex appeal undermining honour : OMIT
2-down – Unhappy type that’s got hooked? : FISH
3-down – Beautiful goddess in street upset ancient city : THEBES
4-down – Trot around with me – lead etc may be found with this : METALDETECTOR
6-down – Magazine no longer available, one hears : LISTENER
7-down – Official at international meeting’s the person who moves a bishop, say? : TRANSLATOR
8-down – Stupidly irresponsible person lived like this? : SILLYDEVIL
10-down – The way in which political journalists sometimes speak publicly? : DOWNINGSTREET
13-down – Our shop due for renovation – to be made very tidy : HOUSEPROUD
14-down – See 2 : OUTOFWATER
17-down – Appalling little female, 6, taking part : FEARSOME
20-down – Important person and lady making a disturbance : POTHER
22-down – Tool acts as a calculator, they say : ADZE
23-down – Colour that could be fancy but not loud : CYAN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21762 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21762 clues and answers were published on Tue 07 Dec 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21762 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – These MDs enter insane crises of conflict! : MEDECINS
9-across – Snake worshipper losing hope about it : OPHITE
10-across – See 7 : SANS
11-across – See 7 : FRONTIERES
12-across – Aviators losing time going East: that’s hairy! : PILOSE
14-across – Superior to Tommy’s tin helmet? : BRASSHAT
15-across – Code of the English and this involves many : ETHICS
17-across – What the economy needs: get-up-and-go! : UPTURN
20-across – Stop that Cartier-Bresson set! : APERTURE
22-across – Where the Normans stitched up the Saxons? : BAYEUX
23-across – Raise handlebar with force and quarrel at the pain of it : GROWATACHE
24-across – A spot of air-traffic control: b– cheek! : BLIP
25-across – I, Romulus Caesar, could for universal love become Emperor : MARCUS
26-across – : AURELIUS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Feel a git? Change! Join the race! : GETALIFE
2-down – 16 of 5 had four husbands with brass. Oh! Wicked female! … : BESS
3-down – … and only two farthings in a fortune: These things are as ______ in the wind : PIFFLE
4-down – US Marines train here by Potomac. B– awful! : BOOTCAMP
5-down – City where Kate’s put six feet under : SHREWSBURY
6-down – Wisdom, therefore, in articles : ATHENA
8-down – Boorish attempt to influence the mighty with society leader : SLOBBY
13-down – See 2 : OFHARDWICK
16-down – Left from incalculable role in The Marriage of Figaro : COUNTESS
18-down – Nuclear sub built from tin with usual reaction : NAUTILUS
19-down – Offer, say, his kingdom : MERCIA
21-down – River rat slaughtered and left at the gate : PORTAL
22-down – Exhausted by capturing a king : BLEARY
24-down – Papal demand for spit and polish : BULL

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21761 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21761 clues and answers were published on Mon 06 Dec 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21761 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – A channel swimmer accepts kiss from great man in history : ALEXANDER
10-across – Commanded by junior : UNDER
11-across – Contracts for polar missiles : NARROWS
12-across – Work’s returning, employs partners : SPOUSES
13-across – Famous composer? Hear, hear : LISZT
14-across – You may get a ride in it, if you’re patient : AMBULANCE
16-across – Source reference provided before the start of the lesson : CHAPTERANDVERSE
19-across – The followers stand here when assembled : ADHERENTS
21-across – Understood one to be in diplomacy : TACIT
22-across – Would it take another like him to be of one mind? : HALFWIT
23-across – He has to exert some pull to make headway : SCULLER
24-across – A nymph puts a spell on one : HOURI
25-across – Container for spread : GREENBELT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – One involved in Asian cult movement in the Caribbean : SAINTLUCIA
2-down – American state banks are to be reorganised : NEBRASKA
3-down – Stew for which soldier has a complaint : RAGOUT
4-down – Final date in the Julian calendar? : IDES
5-down – Metal shackles keep men in step : BRASSBANDS
6-down – Oval jugs made by a foreigner : JUGOSLAV
7-down – Here indeed is one man of genius : EDISON
8-down – Did his influence make Rose change her name? : EROS
14-down – It provides an opportunity for advanced theatrical work : APRONSTAGE
15-down – Choose to speak for the voters : ELECTORATE
17-down – Worn thin perhaps, so it’s included free : THROWNIN
18-down – Runners who jump the gun are not forgotten : RECALLED
20-down – Kind of robbery most likely to occur during rush hours : HOLDUP
21-down – It doesn’t describe the present schoolboy : TRUANT
22-down – The boundary of laughter : HAHA
23-down – Swing – that’s what killers did in olden days : SLEW

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21759 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21759 clues and answers were published on Fri 03 Dec 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21759 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Deep in the past, for example : INTENSE
8-across – One filly in two hundred backed such a hob : CERAMIC
10-across – Ariel goes off with first-class fare : ECLAIR
11-across – After you, semi-literate becomes la creme de la creme : THEELITE
12-across – Zhivago’s girl looked over the shrinking sea : ARAL
13-across – Any player shown a couple of these will see red : YELLOWCARD
14-across – Silly fool : FOLLOWSHOME
19-across – Crumbs! Mat made date, brought wrinkly! : CORRUGATED
22-across – Some leave morosely for the airport : ORLY
23-across – Dim clue reset by compiler finally for cimbalom : DULCIMER
24-across – Some cauliflower from cholesterol-free lunch left over : FLORET
25-across – You French scoff back some dishes! : TUREENS
26-across – Little feller’s creatin’ about Ulster : MANIKIN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Murdoch’s work is a turn-off – Cronin : UNICORN
2-down – The odd one ogles, introducing painter to the harem : SERAGLIO
3-down – Smokers dump less heroin off the beaten track : ASTRAY
4-down – The monster! Is he dropping the Queen Mother? : BEHEMOTH
5-down – Lochnagar licensees supply bloodsucker repellent : GARLIC
6-down – Speed up in home improvement regimen : DIETARY
9-down – These aren’t flowers? Not on the surface, proverbially : STILLWATERS
15-down – Bond fast embraces rising kings : LIGAMENT
16-down – So taken aback by possessive regretful Miss making a bloomer : MYOSOTIS
17-down – Our slum development made capital founder : ROMULUS
18-down – A country tune, say, part of Lark Ascending : ALGERIA
20-down – It’s used to serve a dodgy business : RACKET
21-down – Deft, say, to conquer? : DEFEAT

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

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