Clues

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.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21886 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21886 clues and answers were published on Mon 01 May 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21886 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Broken car phone in Escort : CHAPERON
5-across – Thief’s unusual charm : FETISH
9-across – Touching display of regal appreciation : ACCOLADE
10-across – Season well : SPRING
11-across – Result of strikes in the metal industry : CLANGOUR
12-across – Fiction project about Shakespearean heroine : JULIET
14-across – Summarised and withdrawn : ABSTRACTED
18-across – A fight, but nobody is charged : FREEFORALL
22-across – A fighting man, I go to join up : SOLDER
23-across – Encourages a boy to have a light meal : EGGSALAD
24-across – Agree to take the throne : ACCEDE
25-across – Books for the opera : LIBRETTI
26-across – Possibly run and see to make certain : ENSURE
27-across – Presumably he was prepared for his main tasks : SEASCOUT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Risk not completing part of the church : CHANCE
2-down – A king can’t recollect trigonometrical function : ARCTAN
3-down – It may be said to be highly complimentary : EULOGY
4-down – Rare biblical book required to make up a set, perhaps : ODDNUMBERS
6-down – Organising Sue’s opal wedding : ESPOUSAL
7-down – Begin to explain what I did at the restaurant : INITIATE
8-down – Top rise forecast for seamen : HIGHTIDE
13-down – One growing up in a cave : STALAGMITE
15-down – Where prompt action is requested : OFFSTAGE
16-down – Inferior tufts of horsehair : FETLOCKS
17-down – The culprit’s proposal about the outcome : OFFENDER
19-down – Extra large flag featuring Egyptian god : OSIRIS
20-down – Open bottle before the game, get drunk : BLOTTO
21-down – One habitually taking things did wrong in law : ADDICT

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21884 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21884 clues and answers were published on Fri 28 Apr 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21884 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Backsliding, rumoured to hold Scripture in scorn : DERISION
9-across – Solver’s penetrated the Spanish alcohol base : ETHYL
10-across – No point, darling : LOVE
11-across – Big break for Roman Stoic : ASTRONOMIC
12-across – Concluding remark in central body : CORPSE
14-across – Excessive force putting band round racket : GRINDING
15-across – Is 10 dead, being cut off? : ISOLATE
17-across – Graduate to pierce scales : BALANCE
20-across – Silver and jade, like Yeatsian midnight : AGLIMMER
22-across – Endlessly lusting for something rude : INSULT
23-across – Having control over prose, hid it away : EDITORSHIP
24-across – Point to boring routine – Return To Go : TURN
25-across – 2 24 across’s 6 to 8, Our 10s into 12s or ____ : WIVES
26-across – Nation eating national food : RACLETTE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Silly moo in 10 proves spiteful : VENOMOUS
2-down – Spell occasion : TIME
3-down – Outlaw dish containing vermin : PIRATE
4-down – One keeping male in view : ONSTAGE
5-down – Cooking oil means food : SEMOLINA
6-down – Hold steady for an allegedly good 2 : THEOLDDAYS
7-down – Britain sets charge on holy vestment : ALBION
13-down – Soothing parent in person about to follow up : PALLIATIVE
16-down – French husband going into labour produces plant : TAMARISK
18-down – Pace of heartless star : CELERITY
19-down – Man brought in to carry out shooting : ARCHERY
21-down – Mosaic injunction to Eastern warehouse? : GODOWN
22-down – Blow to make brat behave : IMPACT
24-down – Dainty little junction ahead : TWEE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21883 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21883 clues and answers were published on Thu 27 Apr 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21883 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Cheats to hold on to bloodsuckers? Nonsense! : FIDDLESTICKS
8-across – Any number unwell? Could be catching! : NAILING
9-across – Boast more than this: not in back-to-front dress : OUTBRAG
11-across – More vacant English MP goes to the bank : EMPTIER
12-across – The French man at wedding needing space : LEGROOM
13-across – Gaelic girl wants jazz music after a moment : MORAG
14-across – They watch old boy taking on tennis players : OBSERVERS
16-across – Stupid twit did me wrong : DIMWITTED
19-across – Retiring Josephine dipped into dry Spanish wine : RIOJA
21-across – To say more is supported by this essayist : ADDISON
23-across – The ABC of literature? : LETTERS
24-across – I surrender, says fielder with new cap : YIELDER
25-across – Bangle I smashed: what language! : BENGALI
26-across – Racecourse leveller gets giant rat moving : STARTINGGATE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Hand of airman moving round very quietly : FLIPPER
2-down – Forceful doctor, one no good after six : DRIVING
3-down – Gruel, a lot, revived drunken hooligan : LAGERLOUT
4-down – Sacks turned over in this armless chair : STOOL
5-down – A complete entity would make it green : INTEGER
6-down – Musical entertainment, The Ring, accepted by a king and a libertine : KARAOKE
7-down – Go-between is to bury me with a journal : INTERMEDIARY
10-down – Potter’s Field! : GAMESMANSHIP
15-down – Pouch holds joint of meat given to ugly woman : SADDLEBAG
17-down – Indiana’s here, where dew and mist are mingled : MIDWEST
18-down – How to cook pork, we hear, for a man in clique : INSIDER
19-down – Do a turn, dancing round, in circular building : ROTUNDA
20-down – Reporting a hundred short, no longer useful : OVERAGE
22-down – Italian architect from a greener village : NERVI

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21882 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21882 clues and answers were published on Wed 26 Apr 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21882 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Teaspoon preference to hand. Oh for no trouble brewing like this! : ONEFOR
5-across – Bigot of the Right is caught in the act : RACIST
8-across – Bowled one eccentric, one rum : BACARDI
9-across – It’s gross to confess one’s over the hill : GROWNUP
11-across – See 1 : ANDONEFORTHEPOT
12-across – Hank employed from this wolly strand : KEMP
13-across – See 1 : EACHPERSON
17-across – Lack money to enter the Order of Rechabites … : ABSTINENCE
18-across – … order a Rechabite initially might give to a Persian wine-lover : OMAR
20-across – 11 not 1,000 Hong Kong cups, alas, smashed : LAPSANGSOUCHONG
23-across – Educated woman gets out of bed for such cheese : RICOTTA
24-across – Dress with the end let out : RAIMENT
25-across – Bit of a Bloomer Arising : FLORET
26-across – Genetically modify a mongrel without a sign of energy : MUTATE

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Pharisee was just mendacious, not a twister : NICODEMUS
3-down – Meal a Six Counties service sent up : FARINA
4-down – Check puncture and bearing, then restonre the pressure : REINFLATE
5-down – He’s understood to have relations : ROGER
6-down – Tradesperson: one dividing clergy and monarch : CLOTHIER
7-down – when the students rise? : SUNUP
8-down – So the unions would ban Norman? That’s criminal! : BLACKMAILER
10-down – Add runs among the crew to rectify : PUTONERIGHT
14-down – Weight displacing the cargo mark : HECTOGRAM
15-down – Nodding off in the Cowes road? A thousand times no! : SOMNOLENT
16-down – The end of the pier show around this column : PILASTER
19-down – Ad libs are not in it! : SCRIPT
21-down – Olympic ultimatum has weight in China : PICUL
22-down – One hand in glove in France with Ulysses : GRANT

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

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