Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21905 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21905 clues and answers were published on Tue 23 May 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21905 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Capital walk can end up miles from Cambridge : BIRDCAGE
5-across – Where to see supporters scoffing at back? : STADIA
9-across – Checking concrete case for cask : REBUTTAL
10-across – Go for record-breaking run : DEPART
12-across – Long Island’s yarn : LISLE
13-across – Perfect mate on board? : DREAMBOAT
14-across – 18 where men can become kings : DRAUGHTBOARD
18-across – Be in the first parts of contest – that’s where it’s at : BATTLEGROUND
21-across – Stroke to the pole that long shots require : TELEPHOTO
23-across – Bob’s partner is bore about drug : WEAVE
24-across – Beast with bony plate to rear : ANIMAL
25-across – Call team for good spot at 18 : RINGSIDE
26-across – One in covering letter has one : TENANT
27-across – Good girl with a line that’s mine : STANNARY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Break into the Iberian nosh-up : BURGLE
2-down – Sturdy or else broken : ROBUST
3-down – Animal doctor dissecting 20 in Canterbury, say : CATHEDRAL
4-down – Replaced lagging round that which shocks : GRANDGUIGNOL
6-down – Furthermore, lacks great enthusiasm for measure : THERM
7-down – Moor’s enemy breaks up ground that’s sloping : DIAGONAL
8-down – High position is titled – au contraire : ALTITUDE
11-down – English port with nothing doing for renal expert : NEPHROLOGIST
15-down – What’s got on when trying to get on : BANDWAGON
16-down – Purloin anything but concrete : ABSTRACT
17-down – Hold up particle used in stud : STALLION
19-down – Quiet girl lifted film : PATINA
20-down – Fix molten lead in piping : REMEDY
22-down – Smoother sound is clear : PLAIN

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21904 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21904 clues and answers were published on Mon 22 May 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21904 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – All of a tingle, perhaps, from such a beating : FLAGELLATION
8-across – The protracted use of lines? : ANGLING
9-across – He has no faith in Castro : INFIDEL
11-across – The loin chop that may be used in an emergency : HOTLINE
12-across – Such culture was in grace conceived : GRECIAN
13-across – It’s fun to make! : MERRY
14-across – An uplifting sailors’ cry : YOHEAVEHO
16-across – He sees what one says : LIPREADER
19-across – Battle for the chairman’s seat? : SEDAN
21-across – Recognise and select pi : PICKOUT
23-across – A returned high ball is hard to stop : ABOLISH
24-across – Tail one wags in delight : ELATION
25-across – Row about stray dog : TERRIER
26-across – Personal impressions that are very individual : FINGERPRINTS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Aircraft destined for scrap : FIGHTER
2-down – One can do with it : ABILITY
3-down – Like a high-flier, able to take the long view? : EAGLEEYED
4-down – Not standing for falsehoods : LYING
5-down – Fine stuff for a Welsh banker at tea break : TAFFETA
6-down – A stroke by a batsman going for a run, perhaps? : ONDRIVE
7-down – To take a course like this is humiliating : EATHUMBLEPIE
10-down – A county handicap : LINCOLNSHIRE
15-down – 1Present following the future : HEREAFTER
17-down – Classical admission of guilt : PECCAVI
18-down – Flying to an away match : ELOPING
19-down – Hanger-on holding money for a Scotsman : SPORRAN
20-down – Media make a stand about false statement : DAILIES
22-down – Singer put right after a wrong note : TENOR

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21902 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21902 clues and answers were published on Fri 19 May 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21902 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Take shoot to establish type of bush : POTPLANT
9-across – Is second-born a girl? : ISABEL
10-across – Ass or nag? : GOON
11-across – Hostility in the work place : OPPOSITION
12-across – Peep-shows: big bird! : GANDER
14-across – Fellow not keeping up is losing puff : FLAGGING
15-across – Favourably placed to play ball over to left or right : ONSIDE
17-across – Claim of Lloyd’s member, bound by method of payment, rejected : DEMAND
20-across – A steel tap? : ACCOLADE
22-across – Tosspots go astray – it’s the drink! : SHERRY
23-across – Repeated scene shifting puts years on one : SENESCENCE
24-across – Wool, say, providing protection for sheep, say : COTE
25-across – Arctic seabird off north : BITTER
26-across – Fare to northern US city : SCRANTON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Bypass : COLORADO
2-down – The games up by the interval : SPAN
3-down – Taking pains when delivering, so be threatening to pick up the jack : LABOUR
4-down – Shows some speed ? flying through it! : AIRSPACE
5-down – Spider, say ? preserve one sort : SALTIGRADE
6-down – From island fish-eating bird circling smack : HEROIN
8-down – Warning of river in endless spate : TIPOFF
13-down – Lovely concealing love-nest by deceit : DISHONESTY
16-down – Favourite invalid with doc? : DEADCERT
18-down – Make warfare a thing of the past : DERATION
19-down – Fall trap set up for game : TENNIS
21-down – Lady’s honour has state backing : CHERIE
22-down – Southern Irish county’s rocky island : SKERRY
24-down – Fruit ice : CONE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21901 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21901 clues and answers were published on Thu 18 May 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21901 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Bill or Bob keeps batting : ORDINANCE
10-across – Walk accomplished around Maidenhead : AMBLE
11-across – Martin is reluctant to accept regressive legislation : SWALLOW
12-across – Electronic unit to deter corruption : TETRODE
13-across – A building in Slough : SHED
14-across – Snooker players stop in Hertfordshire? : POTTERSBAR
16-across – Ersatz meat loaf endlessly cooked for breakfast : OATMEAL
17-across – Shine having knowledge about table : GLISTEN
19-across – He’s an influence for a criminal : MALEFACTOR
22-across – It can be blown indiscreetly, producing a boom : GAFF
24-across – A good supporter works hard : GRAFTER
25-across – Boy returns after examination in disgrace : SCANDAL
26-across – Medical procedure shown in hygiene manual : ENEMA
27-across – Merchant and traveller displays the spirit o’ the game : MARCOPOLO

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Has groom seen the settlement? Itês attractive : HORSESHOEMAGNET
2-down – Hoarding money retains German approval. That’s touching! : ADJACENT
3-down – British invader losing time in conflict : ANGLE
4-down – Bird of prey makes novelist cry : SNOWYOWL
5-down – Private is accepted within group of players : SEPTET
6-down – Lubricant for first woman MP squeezed by snake : CASTOROIL
7-down – Hold sailor’s globe : ABSORB
8-down – One prone to stoop finds variety of grape in Florence : PEREGRINEFALCON
15-down – Type of fungus strengthens wood : BEEFSTEAK
17-down – Cooper bears cost of lexicon : GLOSSARY
18-down – Rip parachute revealing well of emotion : TEARDROP
20-down – Drink when touring a circle of wagons : LAAGER
21-down – Metal provides revolutionary casing for digital memory : CHROME
23-down – Gas creates fuss among sailors : RADON

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21900 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21900 clues and answers were published on Wed 17 May 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21900 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Purchase paper, say, for ancient craft : BIREME
4-across – Racing authorities set off to hospital : STEWARDS
9-across – See 20 : FIELD
10-across – I am the cat among dairy produce, going to overlap? : IMBRICATE
11-across – Love girl madly, taking space traveller to the opera : RIGOLETTO
12-across – Student in the army made music : HOLST
13-across – Asylum seeker possibly omitting sari : MIGRATIONIST
17-across – Who else that’s prepared to take centre stage? : STEALTHESHOW
20-across – Not the building site for Labour’s Pauline and Frank : GREEN
21-across – It’s a volte-face to consider a boxing match entertainment : ABOUTTURN
23-across – Figure that sounds like a ruin and a mess : RECTANGLE
24-across – It’s possible I shall leave, taking a year off, before the end of the grub : IMAGO
25-across – Belt for senior officer? Possibly true : CINCTURE
26-across – He should be used to a bark : SEADOG

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – See 10 down : BEFOREME
2-down – Give back the job of pollarding the fruit tree? : REENGAGE
3-down – Gong and what it signifies – eating a bite of dinner : M1D1L
5-down – ? : TOBEORNOTTOBE
6-down – See 10 down : WHICHISEE
7-down – Sapper’s friend? Are you sure? : REALLY
8-down – Don’t talk about temperature – take cover : SHEATH
10-down – † : ISTHISADAGGER
14-down – Company employed at 10 by non-English poet : ATTENDANT
15-down – M’s address to George : THOUSAND
16-down – Gloria, famous last words of? : SWANSONG
18-down – Where to cook some rice with mushroom? : AGARIC
19-down – Belong to the Tory party? Its 9 did : BEACON
22-down – Moment of matrices : TRICE

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

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