Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21734 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21734 clues and answers were published on Thu 04 Nov 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21734 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Event formerly requiring work on winter sport vessel by record-holder in a bad mood : HOPSKIPANDJUMP
8-across – See 4 : TONES
9-across – Evil grips a cleaner at scene of tea party? : VICARAGE
11-across – Rechauffé chicken, not at the foregoing? : HEATHEN
12-across – Phone call to jolt a protector in the lab : BELLJAR
13-across – Meaty writer in modern art : BACON
15-across – I’m proud to be mother subedited : SORETHUMB
17-across – Change Poles for getting into the car : TRANSFORM
20-across – Name for a dove, perhaps, in dire need : IRENE
21-across – Small creature in cover, not the whole hog? : LIMITED
23-across – Meaty writer spoiled the walk : LAMBETH
25-across – Artistic friar speaks of girl to the victor of Jutland : ANGELICO
26-across – Home games? You cannot be serious : INFUN
27-across – League like 1 across, come to grief with loyal one breaking weapon : TRIPLEALLIANCE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Success with article takes nerve, so get liquored up : HITTHEBOTTLE
2-down – African knife for 11, swallowing his tail? : PANGA
3-down – Types holding unusual sash enter office : KISSHANDS
4-down – Flags of convenience in the wet garden : PAVINGS
5-down – Horse in wet weather returning to Indian islands : NICOBAR
6-down – Scots island, left and naturally right : JURAL
7-down – A jewel turns up – sounds like there’s another – a lot of work needed : MEGAJOULE
10-down – Opportunity like 27: live it up with Walesa in ecstasy : TREBLECHANCE
14-down – Pitman displaying singular charity when taken in by forger : COALMINER
16-down – Top people like 27 having some success fighting some of the Irish : TRIUMVIRI
18-down – Mole wandering around a government department long ago? : OLDTIME
19-down – Film producer gets fuel from yarrow : MILFOIL
22-down – Miserable specimen takes article from port : TWERP
24-down – Sprightly renderings of the conclusion : ELFIN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21733 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21733 clues and answers were published on Wed 03 Nov 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21733 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Tear up poster very quickly : PRESTO
5-across – Pastime causes the Queen to be cutting in analysis : INTEREST
9-across – I’ll break up a long morning if this shrub is put back : MAGNOLIA
10-across – Turncoat in spectacles right behind Cicero, perhaps : ORATOR
11-across – Kings, maybe, putting plastic money behind piano : PLAYINGCARDS
13-across – Cookers, when turned around, crack : SNAP
14-across – Birth occurs in native city, not East Central! : NATIVITY
17-across – The inadequacy of fleeting time : SHORTAGE
18-across – You have to go very slowly in Finchley : INCH
20-across – No good hiding garment by river, says this cornfield dweller : HARVESTMOUSE
23-across – I am shortly to be in charge, as is due from a son : FILIAL
24-across – Plain university astronomer almost seen in New York : UNLOVELY
25-across – Work to seek facts, if about to burn church : RESEARCH
26-across – I tarry with uncertainty, which is not common : RARITY

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – One for me, says drunken Dora : ROAD
3-down – Abrasive George, French novelist, to join the Guardian, perhaps : SANDPAPER
4-down – Well! He may own one even if he comes from Milano : OILMAN
5-down – European vermin half gone on opening it : ITALIANVERMOUTH
6-down – Thug shot unfairly and that’s not just one opinion : THOUGHTS
7-down – Rita has swallowed a lasso : RIATA
8-down – Promise to stay in steamer, having second secret weapon : SWORDSTICK
12-down – I burn, but break your heart? I can’t! : ANTHRACITE
15-down – Words of unseen talker putting love at the heart of immorality unduly : VOICEOVER
16-down – Paul’s sick in vehicle. Like some pills? : CAPSULAR
19-down – Non-PM : BUTLER
21-down – Thin material, nasty, with a hole in it! : VOILE
22-down – What the gardener digs up is left in the casserole : PLOT

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21732 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21732 clues and answers were published on Tue 02 Nov 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21732 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Keep limb bony – OK in contest? : KNOBBLY
5-across – Deformed vampire, death and hell, not he; stakes a speciality! : VLADTHE
9-across – Gust of wind, blow! : BLAST
10-across – Sun’s exposure : PAGETHREE
11-across – Fly sets off, guided in its own image? : SELFSTYLED
12-across – Song without la is smooth on top : BALD
14-across – See 1 : COMPETITION
18-across – Cultivating grain, so most expert in their field? : AGRONOMISTS
21-across – Gin finds the mouth : TRAP
22-across – Clairvoyance reveals ghost around the Channel Islands : PRESCIENCE
25-across – ‘x’ co-ordinates make BASIC essay wrong, not ‘y’ : ABSCISSAE
26-across – See 1 : KNEES
27-across – See 5 : IMPALER
28-across – Moralist girl entertained by joke : PURITAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Put it on to stop most of family nonsense : KIBOSH
2-down – Nothing clear confused seer : ORACLE
3-down – Mad support follows from fields first : BATSSECOND
4-down – City careerist raised money during the years : YUPPY
5-down – Indecision seen forming in cranial nerve : VAGUENESS
6-down – Book of information without introduction : ACTS
7-down – Reptile and one fish in net hauled up : TERRAPIN
8-down – Editing the denouement to grab me : EMENDING
13-down – Boar hunter takes the filth to heart : PIGSTICKER
15-down – One will remember Scrooge storing up capital : MEMORISER
16-down – Seasoned beef as Armpit Stew : PASTRAMI
17-down – Ends relationship, so begins the holidays : BREAKSUP
19-down – Where camping is determined? : INTENT
20-down – Nick for rogue trader? : LEESON
23-down – Abrupt and unreasonable : STEEP
24-down – See 10 : GIRL

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21731 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21731 clues and answers were published on Mon 01 Nov 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21731 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Shed providing disreputable shelter beside the street : DIVEST
4-across – It connects similar pressure points : ISOBAR
9-across – List of food : ROLL
10-across – A travelling case? : OUTPATIENT
11-across – Girl in the bar getting drunk : BERTHA
12-across – Just the same, it means you had the right money : NOCHANGE
13-across – It may be adjusted for the rest of the holiday : DECKCHAIR
15-across – Responsibility we can’t avoid? : ONUS
16-across – Offers to take the lot? : BIDS
17-across – Someone foolish or amusing, perhaps : IGNORAMUS
21-across – One naturally separated from the rest of humanity : ISLANDER
22-across – Necessitate a note before Latin revision : ENTAIL
24-across – Uncle Sam’s braces : SUSPENDERS
25-across – One is angry having lost it : WOOL
26-across – Presumably he likes painstaking people : SADIST
27-across – Daisy’s song cycle? : TANDEM

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – See the bishop’s concern : DIOCESE
2-down – Inconclusive steps taken to get servant : VALET
3-down – New mascot hard to put up with : STOMACH
5-down – What many, in panic, make themselves : SCARCE
6-down – She backed the replacement of the ten-shilling note : BRITANNIA
7-down – Pulls out Greene’s novel : RENEGES
8-down – Fixed rule deciding priority in a queue? : STANDINGORDER
14-down – Young goat tipped as a winner by Stevenson : KIDNAPPED
16-down – They’re found in north-west Spain, worn by women : BASQUES
18-down – Supervise, we hear, away from this country : OVERSEA
19-down – All the same, it suits some people : UNIFORM
20-down – A Spaniard is taken for a Greek : ADONIS
23-down – Dragged to the altar? : TOWED

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21729 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21729 clues and answers were published on Fri 29 Oct 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21729 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Measure of tar? : HORNPIPE
5-across – Impact of special short whip : SPLASH
9-across – Sign of very little intelligence : MICRODOT
10-across – Price a pound of ribs : COSTAL
11-across – Sensation – effortless Victorian brilliance : GASLIGHT
12-across – Liquor quality : SPIRIT
14-across – Uncommonly loud, making it resonant : STENTORIAN
18-across – Office of a high court judge? : UMPIRESHIP
22-across – What makes Trent’s last marine mammal stagger? : TOTTER
23-across – Tube taken to theatre for three-act play : CATHETER
24-across – One gets up to see rainbows : IRISES
25-across – This creature is around no longer : DINOSAUR
26-across – Greek midshipman covered with oil : GREASY
27-across – Solemn, always, in Split : REVERENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Great admiration of dwelling that is silver-lined : HOMAGE
2-down – The Hole in the Wall for a break : RECESS
3-down – In favour of appropriate percentage : PROFIT
4-down – Sibyl oppress the unorthodox? : PROPHETESS
6-down – Bear twins and think nothing of it : POOHPOOH
7-down – A hormone building a heavenly body : ASTERIID
8-down – BC, for example, in US? : HALFTONE
13-down – Suggestive mood : INDICATIVE
15-down – Stocktaking without authority? : RUSTLING
16-down – Battle-axe, one of the few in the second row : SPITFIRE
17-down – Release swarm of giveaways : FREEBEES
19-down – Select church circles over Home Counties : CHOOSE
20-down – Set far apart, fire from above : STRAFE
21-down – High peak for soldiers at the double in antitank setting : ARARAT

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

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