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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21704 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21704 clues and answers were published on Thu 30 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21704 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Cocky’s got his own cover, it seems : SELFASSURED
9-across – Brazilian diplomacy may be taken as read when there’s trouble : RIOTACT
10-across – Figure 0 on electronic device held by prisoner : OCTAGON
11-across – Kind to fairy that’s out and fairy will be kind when I’m out! : MILKTOOTH
12-across – See 14 : INTHE
13-across – See 19 : SHED
14-across – Let initiative she’d held slip, as always at the 26 21 : THEDEVILIS
16-across – Operator to gain entry for alternative worker in benefit : DOORHANDLE
19-across – Bowl dropped where Ada Doom saw something nasty : WOOD
21-across – See 26 : TABLE
22-across – Drink dispenser left pub – that’s prison : BARLINNIE
24-across – Slight gradient in cliff-top railway : INCLINE
25-across – Circus artist that can hold his drink? : TUMBLER
26-across – Tyneside acquired one, with a feeling of excitement about the price: is it make of deal? : NEGOTIATING

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Ought Queen Elizabeth to love Francis B.? Cut! : SHOULDEROFBACON
2-down – It’s said to precede the quickest repair : LEAST
3-down – Opposition to the round church is somewhere in the Bible : ANTIOCH
4-down – Take a second to see 13, being tight : SLOSHED
5-down – Recover like a dog from the bulk of the River Tees : RETRIEVE
6-down – Computer reversion: like it to voice articles on 19? : DIGITALTOANALOG
7-down – The first proper American stove : PRIMUS
8-down – A second off being clouded over: adverse condition to follow : UNLESS
15-down – Scottish shepherd’s hut is an improved English one : SHIELING
16-down – See 14 : DETAIL
17-down – Absence of saints among the upper aristocracy? : NOBLEST
18-down – Young actress turning role model before Thanksgiving : LORETTA
20-down – Under Prohibition, without an audience, it’s very boring : DREARY
23-down – William : IAMBI

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21703 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21703 clues and answers were published on Wed 29 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21703 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Officer and soldier have thank you note to ponder : COGITATE
9-across – See 4 : CLOCK
10-across – Sort of a metal rock singer : MEAT
11-across – It may stop chaps getting pudding to eat : AFTERSHAVE
12-across – One wading in with incomplete follow-up for idol? : GODWIT
14-across – Cuts involving Japanese funding backing traditional cabs : HACKNEYS
15-across – See 2 : AFINGER
17-across – Call US city back, butting in to talk, and start gushing? : SPRINGA
20-across – They help 12s emerge and urge effectiveness : EGGTEETH
22-across – Small publication became fly at an early stage : MAGGOT
23-across – Attractive endgame – it’s needing analysis : MAGNETISED
24-across – See 10 : LOAF
25-across – Settle who has write-up in review? : STEAL
26-across – One may hold up dated short story about to be included : OBSTACLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Over half of followers raving about modern solo performer? : LONEWOLF
2-down – Set up a digital process to do a little work : LIFT
3-down – Briefly leave worker unoccupied : VACANT
4-down – Meet deadline with article probing two strikes : BEATTHE
5-down – Seating for the Oaks in preparation? : ACORNCUP
6-down – Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies : POTHUNTING
7-down – Heavens! For accepting 5-4 on, servant being abused? : SKIVVY
13-down – Means to study how models react to the atmosphere in the fast lane : WINDTUNNEL
16-down – Looks at speech giving support for hermit’s vision? : EYESTALK
18-down – Argue, entering part of roof? That could be raised! : GROWABLE
19-down – See 25 : THESHOW
21-down – Girl replaces lining in pink, appearing abstracted : GLASSY
22-down – Fashionable second course : MODISH
24-down – See 17 : LEAK

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21702 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21702 clues and answers were published on Tue 28 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21702 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Delhi’s turnover backing a drug of Huxley’s : SAMOSA
4-across – Thus I often puffed stogie, rolled I see : EGOISTIC
9-across – Out of this deranged Highland tailor? : KILTER
10-across – Agent provocateur thrown out of Italy, headless : CATALYST
11-across – Such a flat ruler extends to 21? : GRACEANDFAVOUR
13-across – B-be without money for a German staple : BLACKBREAD
14-across – Woman bearing genetic code material : EDNA
16-across – Clan or society for English training : SEPT
18-across – Brave dog left after second nocturnal predator : SCREECHOWL
21-across – Lobbyist in for a cut: tread dangerously! : AFRIENDATCOURT
23-across – Underground river famous for trout? On the contrary, this is filled with chemicals : TESTTUBE
24-across – Cave Era fly-trap up-ended : BEWARE
25-across – Anguilla’s captor disturbed a sleeper : EELSPEAR
26-across – Look at the list of features in it : ASPECT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Munro, when climbing mount lower than Godwin Austen? : SAKI
2-down – Bernstein’s heroine has the city in a fever : MALARIA
3-down – Gardener’s gateau? : SEEDCAKE
5-down – Progenitor of M = X, perhaps : GRANDPARENT
6-down – Berlin brought to book : ISAIAH
7-down – Hot starter containing fish gland : THYROID
8-down – Tempting appeal from the Queen’s Mews! : CATERWAUL
12-down – A word to spell : ABRACADABRA
13-down – A : BOSCASTLE
15-down – Narcissus without his reflection, say? : ECHOLESS
17-down – Paddington’s origin’s a liberal study : PERUSAL
19-down – Naturally sheathed core structure eroded : OCREATE
20-down – Bent American copperhead : REDTOP
22-down – Gone from the Labour Party? : LEFT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21701 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21701 clues and answers were published on Mon 27 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21701 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – A figure gone berserk in indignation : DUDGEON
5-across – Building worker going around double-parking – and he drinks! : TIPPLER
9-across – An island in mid-Atlantic, a primates’ paradise : CAPRI
10-across – The ebbing tide? : WATERFALL
11-across – In time ill-assorted pairs will get contrary : DISPARATE
12-across – Over-large order given by heartless woman : OBESE
13-across – An individual very keen on taking note in staff turnover : DOTER
15-across – Royalty with a touching way of getting rich : KINGMIDAS
18-across – A lawyer railing about a highly-regarded person : BARRISTER
19-across – Continue to strike a man : RAMON
21-across – Goes off without the right when ugly customers appear : OGRES
23-across – Jack’s molars – in a bad state : SAILORMAN
25-across – Great painting? Far from it! : MINIATURE
26-across – Opinion that is not irreversible : TENET
27-across – To tackle the problem yet again called for fortitude : RESOLVE
28-across – Faithful as serving men : SINCERE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Caught in the act, police being determined : DECIDED
2-down – Poor diet’s corrected, yet he’s saving money : DEPOSITOR
3-down – She’s caused a large number to leave the US : ERICA
4-down – Game to build modern shopping centre : NEWMARKET
5-down – Little bird with the French name : TITLE
6-down – The Player by one-time joiner : PERFORMER
7-down – Don’t take a vacation : LEAVE
8-down – Waves may be put in the hair : ROLLERS
14-down – Control the way everything is put back : REINSTALL
16-down – Never sins – could be due to angst : NERVINESS
17-down – A shady hemisphere? : DEMIMONDE
18-down – Loaf, which is a mistake : BLOOMER
20-down – Mark admits X returned for the music : NONETTE
22-down – The revolutionary head limits breaks : RENDS
23-down – Relish disrespectful talk : SAUCE
24-down – One gets mad about short measure time after time : OFTEN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21699 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21699 clues and answers were published on Fri 24 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21699 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Blind to bright yellow, perhaps? : SUNSHADE
5-across – Good-looker redresses wrong after trouble : ADONIS
9-across – Virgin’s never been knocked : UNTAPPED
10-across – Supplier of car to Queen : MERCER
12-across – One who has to hum and haw? : HAVER
13-across – A chemist, perhaps, could start following arrangement : SCHEMATIC
14-across – Turkey-trot is not exactly an example : COUNTRYDANCE
18-across – Expense includes new food left in an odd way : OUTLANDISHLY
21-across – Rogue with loot about to ring you first : SCALLYWAG
23-across – Partly repair a teapot boiling over : IRATE
24-across – Shanghai sailor on passage : ABDUCT
25-across – Jack and Norm : STANDARD
26-across – Endeavour to keep close in : TRENDY
27-across – Supplement menu with threepenny bits : ADDENDUM

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Looked for drunk without disgusting expression : SOUGHT
2-down – Local not affected about time : NATIVE
3-down – Barely hop around curve : HYPERBOLA
4-down – Castigation for putting on casual clothes? : DRESSINGDOWN
6-down – Vision of mother leaping about : DREAM
7-down – Poison that fills one bed in nine? : NICOTINE
8-down – Hit lofted catches without strain : STRICKEN
11-down – Lacking height and seen to be lacking imagination : SHORTSIGHTED
15-down – Note union delay : DALLIANCE
16-down – Regular talk of thieves, perhaps, hiding on road : CONSTANT
17-down – Sit heartlessly on fence? : STRADDLE
19-down – Thank poet for old coat : TABARD
20-down – Models posing rarely : SELDOM
22-down – Top-class detectives initially left in clear : LUCID

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

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