Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21625 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21625 clues and answers were published on Wed 30 Jun 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21625 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Playing snooker abandoned for help to the gardener? : POTTINGSHED
9-across – Distance and time on film : FOOTAGE
10-across – Merchant with a fanciful notion : ANTONIO
11-across – Irish girl and boy are annoyed : IRRITATED
12-across – Early idea: the foam must be recycled : AHEAD
13-across – Breaking solvers’ back, like, is no problem! : EASY
14-across – Generative state with a lot of brackets: do nothing in retirement : PARENTHOOD
16-across – Being there from the start with a proper golden face : PRIMORDIAL
19-across – Revolutionary note in the kitchen : CHEF
21-across – The Prince in the Guardian is the big one : WHALE
22-across – It’s like rubber, the beer – send it back to a town near Calais … : ELASTOMER
24-across – … whose law on disturbed rest is dawdling : LOITERS
25-across – … and whose upper-class type with love at heart became a poet : ARIOSTO
26-across – General produces, as a trial, Kipling’s poem in not quite nice setting : NONSPECIFIC

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Pointless 14, around a street at home, is the 23 7 : PROCRASTINATION
2-down – Healthy bread? : TOAST
3-down – Doing nothing for a moment? : INERTIA
4-down – Is he top of de range? : GRANDEE
5-down – Another top in the county, very brief : HOTPANTS
6-down – Translation of 10 16 down’s work made a hit with confused committee : DANCETOTHEMUSIC
7-down – : OFTIME
8-down – Dirty gold acted on pole : SORDID
15-down – Expected to show one’s free : FORESEEN
16-down – River, supply of water to Baden? : POWELL
17-down – The cat and the Queen had briefly retired to put on fancy clothes : DRESSUP
18-down – A Catholic, about a month in France, uses a Semitic tongue : ARAMAIC
20-down – Have babies in a distant line : FARROW
23-down – He will take if the possibility is available : THIEF

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21624 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21624 clues and answers were published on Tue 29 Jun 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21624 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Weapon law overlooked on first examining this part of ship : GUNWALE
5-across – Succeed in their design : INHERIT
9-across – Poor parish including one high flier : AIRSHIP
10-across – Has an effect on what child does : IMPACTS
11-across – Solicit space for trying suits : COURTROOM
12-across – Vestment needing sound pin : COTTA
13-across – Clip heard by quiet listener : SHEAR
15-across – Fair lady packing a gun in trifle : BAGATELLE
17-across – Renegades’ act at Tosca performance : TURNCOATS
19-across – Poor actor admitting soldier to women’s quarters : HAREM
22-across – Crime featured in popular song : ARSON
23-across – Varicoloured pepper used to get rid of rats : PIEDPIPER
25-across – Find fault with island’s acceptance of returning soldier : ARRAIGN
26-across – Learned Oriental gets rude about it : ERUDITE
27-across – The French doctor with the peculiar kind of walk? : LAMBETH
28-across – To take it is an offence : UMBRAGE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Looks briefly at strokes : GLANCES
2-down – Manage to come up with true sort of nourishment : NURTURE
3-down – Remains an alien presence on the Scottish plate : ASHET
4-down – Great feeling about key plant : EUPHORBIA
5-down – Zeus’s inamorata in midstream in a manner of speaking : IDIOM
6-down – Game to have a drink after the dance : HOPSCOTCH
7-down – Many to get it in actual performance : RECITAL
8-down – Tackled first rank with a will : TESTATE
14-down – Credit one with being profound : RECONDITE
16-down – Alewife putting water on cheap cigarette : GASPEREAU
17-down – To drag wearily round museum is hard work : TRAVAIL
18-down – Sort out spirit platform : ROSTRUM
20-down – Duplicate caliper ordered : REPLICA
21-down – She needs real men around : MARLENE
23-down – Dickensian in dire straits? : PINCH
24-down – Sound fruit, they say : PLUMB

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21623 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21623 clues and answers were published on Mon 28 Jun 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21623 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Stage directors in groups : BOARDS
5-across – Intrude by chance or mistake : ENCROACH
9-across – Its users have no need to take flight to reveal confusion : ELEVATOR
10-across – Put in on without being told? : ASSUME
11-across – They aren’t charged, but make the most noise : EMPTYVESSELS
13-across – One outside hospital may need treatment : ACHE
14-across – Shellfish on edge : ESCALLOP
17-across – Always faithful? : CONSTANT
18-across – They are fast replacing buttons : ZIPS
20-across – They restore plush to order : UPHOLSTERERS
23-across – Aim straight : DIRECT
24-across – Nevertheless, netting first and last service : EVENSONG
25-across – Broken boot-tree found in the garden : BEETROOT
26-across – One has no reason to want it : SANITY

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Lois becomes a medium : OILS
3-down – Critics about to join members of the audience : REVIEWERS
4-down – Physical exercises I put off when on board : SITUPS
5-down – Prompt payments may be what archaeologists are looking for : EARLYSETTLEMENT
6-down – Carriage boy : CLARENCE
7-down – Deserted place of refreshment? : OASIS
8-down – Old soldier who got the hump : CAMELCORPS
12-down – Oddly comic place associated with a criminal, perhaps : ACCOMPLICE
15-down – Idle girl going round giving choice to consumers : LAZYSUSAN
16-down – It sounds highly unnatural : FALSETTO
19-down – Quiet place for a school break : RECESS
21-down – Public minister raised in the Old Testament : OVERT
22-down – It makes fast speed at sea : KNOT

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21621 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21621 clues and answers were published on Fri 25 Jun 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21621 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – How to identify article about Japanese game immediately? : FROMTHEWORDGO
10-across – Awfully coy, interrupting journalist making a pile in the field : HAYCOCK
11-across – Get on the right wavelength, about to tease popular leader : TRIBUNE
12-across – It’ll beat having beans, or somesuch : PULSE
13-across – Post contains a break in the clouds : MARESTAIL
14-across – Horse sounding not so old, it’s said : NEIGH
16-across – Nearly married old lunatic, as one’s expecting a packet! : MAILORDER
18-across – So Tom may announce he’s 20 inclined? : CATERWAUL
19-across – American uncle’s gone back over most of the subject : MATHS
20-across – Morals you abandoned behaving thus? : AMOROUSLY
23-across – One used toplay CDs, depending on 23 down? : LASER
24-across – Reports from a battle zone, possibly : GUNFIRE
25-across – Argued furiously about Pentium’s first improvement : UPGRADE
26-across – What some athletes had to do to ensure victory? : BREASTTHETAPE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – The Queen’s never used this source of cash : ROYALMINT
3-down – Sweet-sounding animal : MOOSE
4-down – Accepted having pong surrounding rubbish : HOKUM
5-down – One grinding away with determination over a limited period : WATERMILL
6-down – Downfall almost about to occur – first sign seen outside : RAINSTORM
7-down – My word! Upper class accepted a Dutch cheese! : GOUDA
8-down – Continually vary what you get from butcher for a fiver? : CHOPANDCHANGE
9-down – In a fine old pickle! : WELLPRESERVED
15-down – It’s played on injury Lewinsky first neglected : HARMONICA
16-down – Sort out statements, losing time checking finances : MEANSTEST
17-down – It should give an impression of accurate timing : DATESTAMP
21-down – I have to see the proprietor : OWNER
22-down – Those I’m addressing – half of them teenagers? : YOUTH
23-down – Come down and see it, so you’ll understand : LIGHT

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21620 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21620 clues and answers were published on Thu 24 Jun 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21620 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Engage in burlesque naked? True! : UNDERTAKE
10-across – The last of the home games : OMEGA
11-across – City doctor with the shuffling kind of walk : LAMBETH
12-across – Did it save Berlin from musical plaigarism? : AIRLIFT
13-across – Once arranged for cornet : CONE
14-across – Wholly bare body : ALTOGETHER
15-across – Aloof like Gower, say, with three out : INSULAR
17-across – Rich source of oil stopped? : WELLOFF
19-across – Crusoe collapsed after run here : RACECOURSE
22-across – Become engaged in some shooting : MESH
23-across – Stir up Roger! Pull yourselves together : REGROUP
24-across – Welcome a Triumph once : ACCLAIM
26-across – Nobles who hold court in London venue : EARLS
27-across – Somehow RA can dash into colour : CARNATION

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Where classified information is open to alll : PUBLICLIBRARIES
2-down – A broken set of unusual pieces way back : ODDMENTS
3-down – Irregular features of Bernice’s cheese : BRIE
4-down – He is not yet a master of martial arts : BACHELOR
5-down – Smooth when applied to a leg : LEGATO
6-down – It signals an opening move : DOORBELL
7-down – Like an appetizer : RELISH
8-down – Custodian of the penny-royal? : MASTEROFTHEMINT
16-down – A hundred losers playing game : LACROSSE
17-down – One who has grounds for his lack of sagacity? : WISEACRE
18-down – Pirate company misbehaving at La Scala, perhaps? : OPERATIC
20-down – Smokes rolled from chopped agarics : CIGARS
21-down – Open a French parachute : UNPACK
25-down – Helmsman holding a pet : COAX

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

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