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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21685 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21685 clues and answers were published on Wed 08 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21685 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Opposite of core gay activist, perhaps, reaching majority : OUTERMOST
10-across – Nothing, as it happens, on the green : OLIVE
11-across – Coat sported, unoriginally, by fabled beast : UNICORN
12-across – Introduction to the umpire’s instep? : PREFACE
13-across – Jabber of game : POKER
14-across – Look cross about fool starting to wash decanters, for example : GLASSWARE
16-across – Line of prisoners pegged out, having received punishment against medical advice : CONTRAINDICATED
19-across – Tear into less risky yield : SURRENDER
21-across – Unquiet tree at one extreme or the other : POLAR
22-across – Otter’s not a total inversion of another aquatic mammal : MUSKRAT
23-across – Splash out on Luxem-bourg in Bloom : SPLURGE
24-across – Island business with excellent turnover : IBIZA
25-across – Letter to Greek man embracing Muse – half a half, say : NUMERATOR

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Conjuring house point for officer in America : HOCUSPOCUS
2-down – Crippled gun, putting some hay in it : STRICKEN
3-down – Passion sounds more complicated in EastEnders : ARDOUR
4-down – The fuzz appear in blue : DOWN
5-down – Snake slept badly on top of decorator’s equipment : STEPLADDER
6-down – Judicial distribution of conifers : FORENSIC
7-down – Agents ensnared amoral character with bug : CICADA
8-down – Dog’s reported huff : PEKE
14-down – Knife-sharpener gives a smile, having agreed about saint : GRINDSTONE
15-down – Chuck’s dad’s source of wine? : ELDERBERRY
17-down – Characters from Derby are upset by baker’s product : RYEBREAD
18-down – Bear left on time to participate in gambling system : TOLERATE
20-down – German state’s leader’s gone somewhere further east : RUSSIA
21-down – Derisory tax on dog food : PALTRY
22-down – Servant given a month in France and Germany : MAID
23-down – House erected in Lime Street : SEMI

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21684 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21684 clues and answers were published on Tue 07 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21684 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Report of pachyderms in pass with peculiar feature : WRYNOSE
8-across – From river to river back to river : POTOMAC
10-across – Having got my ape movies muddled, I say I’m king of the river : MEKONG
11-across – On All Fools’ Day the bird gets old fruit : APRICOCK
12-across – Accommodation like 6 : FLAT
13-across – The president finds something explosive in The King and I … : THABOMBEKI
14-across – … in his place – enough to give one a fit – a chorus … : SOUTHAFRICA
19-across – … at last the balladist admits his identity : ZIMBABWEAN
22-across – A couple of Scots cut off and shut off: no change here! : TWAS
23-across – : EVERTHUS
24-across – : NELSON
25-across – Hold our Peter’s father, perhaps – one before 13 : MANDELA
26-across – Where the flytrap was you can see little bits mangled inside : WEBSITE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Well-regulated trolley pusher? : ORDERLY
2-down – A few of the foregoing with this alternative : ONEORTWO
3-down – Both the dials go wrong: this you must see! : ASIGHT
4-down – … This suffice, or do you want the usual saloon? : FOURDOOR
5-down – Keeper of the watch, an unknown copper, coming in: he’s earthborn : FOXCUB
6-down – It’s made of batter clumsily ground : PANCAKE
9-down – The birds are over the pond : CANADAGEESE
15-down – See 3 : TOBEHOLD
16-down – Pet on a table set to change and not to change : CATALYST
17-down – Roman bridge : MILVIAN
18-down – Collusion with accountant is a big laugh : CAHOOTS
20-down – What the sheep said about punishment under the Gaekwar : BARODA
21-down – Poles in their customary order in a French city : NANTES

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21683 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21683 clues and answers were published on Mon 06 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21683 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – One nurse can become unsettled, maybe for life : INSURANCE
10-across – A temple ornament? : TIARA
11-across – Worker admits fruit gives sustenance : ALIMENT
12-across – Shocking in respect to certain individuals : AWESOME
13-across – I knock back about a couple : PAIR
14-across – Side given drink for morale : TEAMSPIRIT
16-across – A sheer fabrication : ORGANZA
17-across – Poet is reserved about French female : SHELLEY
19-across – Held in check, fell behind the others : RESTRAINED
22-across – It’s flat and square : EVEN
24-across – A driver went astray, but completed the course : ARRIVED
25-across – Measured fruit and garden plot : PLUMBED
26-across – Duck down : EIDER
27-across – Means to get at the drink : CORKSCREW

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Steals fitting in error : MISAPPROPRIATES
2-down – Here’s hoping I spring a surprise : ASPIRING
3-down – Increase the strain : BREED
4-down – It can make a man hate what is repellent to him : ANATHEMA
5-down – Still good advice to the excited : BECALM
6-down – Tried to make potted meat – nothing less : ATTEMPTED
7-down – Left work : LABOUR
8-down – How a hospital patient might have to accept medication without protest? : TAKEITLYINGDOWN
15-down – Dog entered in favoured races is withdrawn : INTROVERT
17-down – Retired train-bearers? : SLEEPERS
18-down – Budgerigar to delight in being caged? : LOVEBIRD
20-down – Leader of the squad tried to change step : STRIDE
21-down – Prompt delivery : INDUCE
23-down – Think of America : GUESS

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21681 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21681 clues and answers were published on Fri 03 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21681 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – Superior worker’s advantage : UPPERHAND
10-across – Bulky specimen needing no introduction : AMPLE
11-across – p or n? : NUCLEON
12-across – There’s material for a writer in it : INKWELL
13-across – Cattle without water : NEAT
14-across – Stop work and say nothing at society dance : SHUTUPSHOP
15-across – Quire being delivered to editor is questioned : QUERIED
17-across – One officer after drink getting the classical cover : PORTICO
19-across – English trees stay around in an affluent state : EASYSTREET
22-across – A river guy, they say : TEES
23-across – Screen right round American island : TRELLIS
24-across – Stylish swipe that gives body support : HIPBONE
26-across – Canoe capsized in the water : OCEAN
27-across – Airs produced when playing organ with care : ARROGANCE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – eg Is this suitable for the fire? : BURNINGQUESTION
2-down – Bet the gallery will do this : SPECTATE
3-down – Language from overseas : ERSE
4-down – Had meal about 1st April and started enterprise : LAUNCHED
5-down – Notice the narrow opening at sea : ADRIFT
6-down – High-flier’s a stimulus to the plant : LARKSPUR
7-down – Delivery address : SPEECH
8-down – Fit with padding to make plump : WELLUPHOLSTERED
16-down – Fresh in part of the Channel? : INSOLENT
17-down – Excess pother travelling with a learner : PLETHORA
18-down – Arctic explorer could be drug-limited : ICEBOUND
20-down – Joint fixer : SKEWER
21-down – Lascar abroad could be a rogue : RASCAE
25-down – Buttons, perhaps silver, appearing in drill : PAGE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21680 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21680 clues and answers were published on Thu 02 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21680 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Natural flavouring put in plonk or fruit drink : SHERBET
5-across – Feature of space traveller, sported improperly : REDSPOT
9-across – Backer provides a new stage, after reflection : ANGEL
10-across – One’s in the country here : INDONESIA
11-across – People adopt English manner by the sea : FOLKESTONE
12-across – Suicide achieved nothing : DIDO
14-across – Leadin’ newly-wed to place of reception : DRAWINGROOM
18-across – Royal wedding brings a lump to the throat : WINDSORKNOT
21-across – Ringing display in the Three Choirs Festival : ECHO
22-across – Rejected fielders admit enjoyin’ the game : SPILLIKINS
25-across – Homicide has sovereign tucking into more rum : STRANGLER
26-across – Dog briefly enthrals a writer : PEAKE
27-across – Goddess writes about gods : PENATES
28-across – As ruler, becomes dreamlike : SURREAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Workers on a Scottish island : STAFFA
2-down – Spirit captures wild gnu in swamp : ENGULF
3-down – Rot or blight at root of big tree : BALDERDASH
4-down – In a manner of speaking it is not pollution : TAINT
5-down – Flag of retreat interrupts surrender : REDENSIGN
6-down – Dripping is swallowed without resistance : DANK
7-down – God is present, I assume : POSEIDON
8-down – Cafes where more toast is endlessly prepared : TEAROOMS
13-down – ‘e captured a murderer and ‘e suits ‘imself : EGOTRIPPER
15-down – A harvest store erected in the citadel : ACROPOLIS
16-down – Hearts removed from confectioner’s fruit : SWEETSOP
17-down – Fugitive is no hunter, unfortunately : ONTHERUN
19-down – Denunciation of one in business : TIRADE
20-down – A balloon, to boot : ASWELL
23-down – Testing ground is another place for an MP : LORDS
24-down – One displaying detachment : UNIT

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

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