Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21691 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21691 clues and answers were published on Wed 15 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21691 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Fighting en masse? You need protection : BULWARK
5-across – Ancient poet’s coming back almost wealthy : HOMERIC
9-across – Engineers en masse? Good start for trial scene : NUREMBERG
10-across – Am I starting to be on good terms with the message? : CABLE
11-across – Pantomime character in Britain and America : DAME
12-across – English essays on Labour are like soaps : TOILETRIES
14-across – See 17 : RELIEF
15-across – Play about church gains currency : DRACHMA
16-across – What a course could do to back her keeping a slave : REFRESH
18-across – Ulster, special clothing article for Kruschev : NIKITA
20-across – Without stocking much of Gray’s work, get pushed around : BARELEGGED
21-across – Journey before the fall : TRIP
24-across – Porter : COHEN
25-across – Irregular French saint coming in to us : ANOMALOUS
26-across – Eliot is a fool? Putting it the other way helps : ASSISTS
27-across – Novel way of exchanging lire to chuck about : SHIRLEY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The good journalist worked hard when up : BONED
2-down – Story about a sheep in a Western town : LARAMIE
3-down – Setter’s car won’t start – it needs a service : ARMY
4-down – Notice to visitors: avoid cannabis… : KEEPOFFTHEGRASS
5-down – …It’s far from safe taking a 21 on the drug, as only E works : HIGHLYDANGEROUS
6-down – See 17 : MUCHTHANKS
7-down – I abandon Netanyahu in the stampede? Nonsense! : RUBBISH
8-down – Clinton’s flower show : CHELSEA
13-down – Democrat leaders fiddle about with kings: they get more to watch : VIDEOLINKS
16-down – Fiddle of old with notes by 11 West : REBECCA
17-down – ,14,6 Old guard’s speech going out is about dear old new chum F. Gump : FORTHIS
19-down – Reported limit to fuel causes unrest : TURMOIL
22-down – After shake-up, the unassertive become just the opposite : PUSHY
23-down – Writer drunk as a monkey? : SAKI

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21690 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21690 clues and answers were published on Tue 14 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21690 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

5-across – Bird seen on migration in Tresco? : SCOTER
6-across – Birds presented with bill for geranium : CRANES
9-across – Bird with belly-ache : GROUSE
10-across – Giddy dove circling another bird in the air : OVERHEAD
11-across – A bird – or, to put it another way, birds : SKUA
12-across – An eccentric breeds rats for birds : REDBREASTS
13-across – Wrong note in port for seabird : HERRINGGULL
18-across – Bird in town centre going round to cinema providing animal shelter : WOODPIGEON
21-across – Kill two birds with one stone – that includes birds’ birthplace : NEST
22-across – Bird seen on street in pushchair : STROLLER
23-across – A bird has to mount it : TOMTIT
24-across – Wine for a bird : CANARY
25-across – Ruth or Rachel’s first bird : REGRET

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Couple at work have sex : COPULATE
2-down – Space traveller revealed by start of oscillation in measuring instrument : METEOR
3-down – 25 of knitted jumper : TREEFROG
4-down – Girl’s three articles : ANTHEA
5-down – Bird may be hitch for hikers : SHRIKE
7-down – Hare-brained puss in pigpen : SCATTY
8-down – What Elvis sang about – and where, too : WOODENHEART
14-down – Mockingbird with lyre-shaped tail : RAILLERY
15-down – Outstanding feature of scenery – as well as mountain-top circled by bird : LANDMARK
16-down – It’s characteristic of a twitcher to follow the author of The Raven describing The Raven : POETIC
17-down – A beast of burden is the first to help : ASSIST
19-down – River in southern highlands floods : DROWNS
20-down – Spice Girls’ debut, having first met UN Assembly : NUTMEG

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21689 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21689 clues and answers were published on Mon 13 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21689 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Metal washing machine? : COPPER
5-across – Didn’t stay uninhabited : DESERTED
9-across – They’re much smarter than their mates : PEACOCKS
10-across – Mongrel dog sustained by meat : MUTTON
11-across – Fear arrest : APPREHENSION
13-across – Peruvian in Spain cannot be understood : INCA
14-across – Wordplay of a Socratic kind : ACROSTIC
17-across – Free American money – and she gets a quarter : BUCKSHEE
18-across – They may be eaten slowly or bolted : NUTS
20-across – Admits information is revealed in the accounts : ACKNOWLEDGES
23-across – Bill returns with a part of her : CAROLE
24-across – Involved in happy Oriental festival : EPIPHANY
25-across – The quality of mercy : LENIENCY
26-across – Come into force? : ENLIST

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Sign to appeal to males : OMEN
3-down – One way to shoulder the job of team selection : PICKABACK
4-down – I creep around helping in the kitchen : RECIPE
5-down – Kill-or-cure medicine? : DESPERATEREMEDY
6-down – Mystery involved a number in regular correspondence : SYMMETRY
7-down – They’re the last to recognise death is near : RITES
8-down – Financial experts involved in some cost : ECONOMISTS
12-down – Declare girl in acute trouble : ANNUNCIATE
15-down – She cleans out for the steward : SENESCHAL
16-down – How mince is cooked by Chinese? : CHOWMEIN
19-down – Light in it, for example, goes out : IGNITE
21-down – I complain when she comes up : NAOMI
22-down – They run well, naturally, and their rise is celebrated : GNUS

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21687 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21687 clues and answers were published on Fri 10 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21687 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Perhaps one shut a gap? : HIATUS
4-across – Patrol leader like mother – it’s in the blood : PLASMA
9-across – Premature demise may be hated : ACCIDENTALDEATH
10-across – Where reels of film may be seen – or heard : CANNES
11-across – Flatter and not so piquant : BLANDISH
12-across – He’s admitted cruel manipulation in the course of his labours… : HERCULES
14-across – …being brave and beloved, but heartless : DARING
15-across – Vegetable pot found in the dump : TURNIP
18-across – Ovation for leading car overtaking : CLAPPING
21-across – It may have a bearing on rushful possession : BALLRACE
22-across – Neat shot, though not centred with precision : NICETY
24-across – Obsolete political tools? : HAMMERANDSICKLE
25-across – The feast is almost oriental : EASTER
26-across – Repeat action of a revolver : GYRATE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The acre is roughly 40% of it : HECTARE
2-down – It’s injurious to cut off headdress : ALIGN
3-down – Take a turn with silent cooking in the kitchen : UTENSIL
5-down – Old reformer found everything held up by his superior : LOLLARD
6-down – One for the road – a quick gin, perhaps? : SPEEDTRAP
7-down – The skilled worker in Cathcart is a necessary part of the Cape economy : ARTISAN
8-down – He painted a vessel with a little boat on board : STUBBS
13-down – Feast of cold and cooked meals : CANDLEMAS
16-down – Ignorant woman took the English to war : UNAWARE
17-down – Spoken prayer that’s plain : PRAIRIE
18-down – Walk by the river : CHEYNE
19-down – This could set many free : AMNESTY
20-down – Girl gives boy a tall story : NATALIE
23-down – Officers take a drink : COCOA

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21686 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21686 clues and answers were published on Thu 09 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21686 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Walk from American time and charge into New York time : USEONESFEET
9-across – Spoken verse in instalments through one’s teeth! : ODONTIC
10-across – English truffle hunter swilling ale close to the ground : EPIGEAL
11-across – How an alpine colonist squares accounts? : SETTLESUP
12-across – ‘eaves one within range : URALS
13-across – Contract in Franco-Roman law : FLEX
14-across – As man involved with Ireland might view one from England : MAINLANDER
16-across – So Wordsworth’s minstrel appears to have thee flustered, as a matter of fact : ETHEREALLY
19-across – Rastafarian held at more than arm’s length : AFAR
21-across – Montcalm’s conqueror’s in misery about his left foot : WOLFE
22-across – Slater’s demand for full pension? : ROOFBOARD
24-across – His ‘n’ her venture in hock : RHENISH
25-across – Comfort needed when you and me revoltingly grow old : ASSUAGE
26-across – Autodidact displaying fame ‘n’ medals : SELFMADEMAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Source of 17 scattered seed of Terah with topping of mulch : UROFTHECHALDEES
2-down – Crack up making those absent from W — K, say? : EXTOL
3-down – Name one Greek island: one with a divided capital : NICOSIA
4-down – Ignore the alarm! These slippery customers are over a barrel : SLEEPIN
5-down – Labour’s injection of backbone? : EPIDURAL
6-down – Destination of 17’s line and then of a canal restoration : THELANDOFCANAAN
7-down – The ______ 16,4,17’s 23 : SONSOF
8-down – Successful deal maker is caught by failure : CLOSER
15-down – Spontaneous declaration: Release the Stratford One! : FREEWILL
16-down – One of eight from a demoralised War Department : EDWARD
17-down – Race starter – for the Lincoln! : ABRAHAM
18-down – One is spotted by Lampedusa : LEOPARD
20-down – Shipping line director : RUDDER
23-down – It could be uplifted for Dr Mowlem to cry on : BOSOM

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

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