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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21892 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21892 clues and answers were published on Mon 08 May 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21892 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Stops at sea : HEAVESTO
9-across – Doing nothing right in an examination : ATREST
10-across – Press old curtain material? : IRON
11-across – See that the standard is kept up : FLYTHEFLAG
12-across – How to make do? : COMPEL
14-across – Stayed in custody : ARRESTED
15-across – Rose let down by her boyfriend : STOODUP
17-across – Article on foreign currency includes one that’s out-of-date : ANCIENT
20-across – See lambs rounded up and put together : ASSEMBLE
22-across – It conceals the seamy side of our habits : LINING
23-across – It keeps one’s gear on line : CLOTHESPEG
24-across – He is used to having high scores : ALTO
25-across – Also seen as a real gent : ASWELL
26-across – Man’s environment : IRISHSEA

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Confirms what Goldilocks found : BEARSOUT
2-down – Flatiron? : EVEN
3-down – Functional American fuel product : USEFUL
4-down – A struggle to maintain faith : HOLYWAR
5-down – Outcome of the grain harvest : GATHERIN
6-down – Calling for a declaration : PROFESSION
7-down – Houses a car : ESTATE
13-down – Playthings? : PROPERTIES
16-down – It gets held up when the weather’s bad : UMBRELLA
18-down – A number of bonds are for a 10-year period : NINETIES
19-down – A spider possibly saved Bruce from it : DESPAIR
21-down – Excitement created by man overboard? : SPLASH
22-down – Italian gallery that is always open : LOGGIA
24-down – A pain in the stomach eased by treatment : ACHE

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21890 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21890 clues and answers were published on Fri 05 May 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21890 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Passed Peregrine a black suit : SPADES
4-across – Male star’s new suit : HEARTS
9-across – Gratuity is about right for an excursion : TRIP
10-across – In one state police rejected evidence : INDICATION
11-across – Venture round sick quarters : BILLET
12-across – August, the end of June and April I’m travelling : IMPERIAL
13-across – People agree I improved the beastly place! : MENAGERIE
15-across – Not a lot to eat? Exist without it! : BITE
16-across – Ask doctor when cold in bed : SACK
17-across – Unusually stern Goths dropping round with gifts : STRENGTHS
21-across – Man in charge of a church : BASILICA
22-across – Top worker comes back in for a doze : CATNAP
24-across – Fifty one-cent promissory notes, filthy : LICENTIOUS
25-across – Some take Epsom salts to celebrate! : KEEP
26-across – Crazy person, yet one using his head in a fight? : NUTTER
27-across – He’s handsome, but has bad back after a party : ADONIS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Benefit office where pumps may be used : SERVICE
2-down – Shock with pointless petition : APPAL
3-down – Letter from student in top European skiing area : EPISTLE
5-down – Flight departure : ESCAPE
6-down – About to go home by midnight – is coming back : RETURNING
7-down – Rate other gases differently, but they keep you warm : STORAGE
8-down – Dresses said disloyal person after commercial manager : ADMINISTRATOR
14-down – Author Archibald takes famous model to court : ARCHITECT
16-down – See 1 : STATION
18-down – Cut and drilled without a ruler : EXCISED
19-down – See 7 : HEATERS
20-down – Small library opens with new title : LITTLE
23-down – Certainly in time to obtain souvenir : TOKEN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21889 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21889 clues and answers were published on Thu 04 May 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21889 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Stop paper using old army signalling equipment : FIELDTELEGRAPH
9-across – By arrangement meant some to enter flat : APARTMENT
10-across – Sun turns it into a good conductor : SOLTI
11-across – Robin’s song with modern tune? : ADAIR
12-across – The French marine not out 0 against the Russian poet : LERMONTOV
13-across – Article about ancient city by head teacher : THEBEAST
14-across – Raincoat with its inside messed up with putty : MASTIC
17-across – Condition found in forest at eventide : ESTATE
19-across – Top child turn has fitting round back : TEETOTUM
22-across – Eastern tea mixture helps one to find one’s bearings : ORIENTATE
24-across – Behold the animal’s swallowing back tooth! : MOLAR
25-across – Encountered backward training test : TEMPT
26-across – Forger makes this minor change : IRONSMITH
27-across – Listens to Lear rambling outside after order for final run through : DRESSREHEARSAL

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Get really cross at barber’s carelessness! : FOAMATTHEMOUTH
2-down – Arise from name brought up at first encounter : EMANATE
3-down – Aid to cleanliness to put a chap off? : DETERGENT
4-down – Observe with gravity girl through telescope, perhaps : EYEGLASS
5-down – Gain by violence from old wrong : EXTORT
6-down – Motown singer to love Italian red : ROSSO
7-down – Wan child in loose overcoat : PALETOT
8-down – Utter immorality spoils man as high flier : AIRVICEMARSHAL
15-down – Plant meets disaster in song : ARTEMESIA
16-down – Great beast seen by the two people round eastern border : BEHEMOTH
18-down – Political opportunist has apparently lost weight : TRIMMER
20-down – Agrees with point composer accepts : TALLIES
21-down – Weapon standard rising? That’s right! : RAPIER
23-down – Remarks of a financial nature, perhaps : NOTES

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21888 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21888 clues and answers were published on Wed 03 May 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21888 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Primate attaining high degree in military headgear : BUSHBABY
5-across – Game for a drink? : SQUASH
9-across – Source of happiness, as one would rather not be addressed? : SUNSHINE
10-across – Fire wildly at the establishment, showing aggression : FIERCE
12-across – Top mark for a folly put into a certain order : ALPHABETISE
15-across – Treats icy roads with cereal? : GRITS
17-across – Man of low degree, a disappointment to the flag : JACKFROST
18-across – Confine mortal men affected with errors instead of omissions : ENTRAMMEL
19-across – See through one making great strides : LOPER
20-across – Tax on everyone causes unnecessary worry : OVERANXIETY
24-across – This ____, 26, 10, and 13-ing being – 17 dancing 1 down in the 9 : BRIGHT
25-across – Devil in disguise – you start acting like God : DIVINELY
26-across – Quick! The doctor’s in the river! : NIMBLE
27-across – Was there and listened : ATTENDED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Brilliant report about telepathy took precedence : BESPANGLED
2-down – Way to sit on horse’s back with Matthew, Mark and Luke : SYNOPTISTS
3-down – Tea taken by the motorway out of the Prague area : BOHEA
4-down – Cake for horse, pullover for bouncer : BUNGEEJUMPER
6-down – A lot of children doing a lot of trembling? : QUIVERFUL
7-down – Ethereal spirit, not female at first : AIRY
8-down – Despicable person’s sole companion : HEEL
11-down – BondĀs boss is a musician entertaining an editor of diverse pieces : MISCELLANIST
13-down – Grasp a fellow member and set her up at last : COMPREHEND
14-down – Idealistic, wanting to be supported without w-whiskey : STARRYEYED
16-down – I like the Eastern European building posh villa : SLAVOPHIL
21-down – Mysterious document making the flexi- flexible? : XFILE
22-down – Veto on love in Campbelltown? : OBAN
23-down – Reliable business? : FIRM

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21887 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21887 clues and answers were published on Tue 02 May 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21887 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Pulls out table extensions : LEAVES
4-across – Archers play in this morning game : AMBRIDGE
9-across – He admires neatly-turned leg in the outskirts of Ongar : OGLER
10-across – Staff bend to clear the bar in it? : POLEVAULT
11-across – Policy of having people isolated, hide being different : APARTHEID
12-across – Bar popular withsculptor : RODIN
13-across – Announcements made when there are enough on the board : DECLARATIONS
17-across – Faithful in reproduction, we hear : HIGHFIDELITY
20-across – Airhead, I would take Greek letter unfinished : IDIOT
21-across – This is found to be less habit-forming : ESTABLISH
23-across – Fitter turning lathe here in Germany : HEALTHIER
24-across – Some unpleasant radiotherapy for the sinuses : ANTRA
25-across – It shows how far ‘e motored, roughly : ODOMETER
26-across – Set price of heraldic design : CHARGE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Old rates, if exchanged, might be tight on one : LEOTARDS
2-down – Trifling, and losing head, can lead to marriage : ALLIANCE
3-down – Bird to deplore having lost head : EGRET
5-down – Trim ladies’ man, possibly, to bungle things : MALADMINISTER
6-down – Great respect for clergyman’s address : REVERENCE
7-down – Priests acted around Rugby and succeeded : DRUIDS
8-down – Navigational aid, with top missing, is still in use : EXTANT
10-down – Hunt, say, for brother in art school? : PRERAPHAELITE
14-down – Peripatetic teacher from Plato’s Academy : ARISTOTLE
15-down – Threatening what was left to Caesar : SINISTER
16-down – Stop for the last carriage : LYCHGATE
18-down – Expression of compliance, almost trendy? : RIGHTO
19-down – Spitfire with area inside a constellation : VIRAGO
22-down – Small bay overlooking every single shore : BEACH

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

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