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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21832 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21832 clues and answers were published on Mon 28 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21832 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Chap going to kiss girl modelling art wear gets the bird : MANXSHEARWATER
8-across – Having taken on cargo at lake port… : LADEN
9-across – …dirty child on platform is even more dirty : GRUBBIER
11-across – Characteristic of Persian cat in the distance? : FURLONG
12-across – Unfathomable element in baby’s maltreatment : ABYSMAL
13-across – Account not rendered by historian : ACTON
15-across – Society girl meeting poet in tube, perhaps : DEBUTANTE
17-across – Dispense with outdoor party? : DOWITHOUT
20-across – Country where, for example, youth leader takes little part : EGYPT
21-across – Seldom met with portion of food : RAREBIT
23-across – He tries to give confidence to underwriter : ASSURER
25-across – Fearful of being socially acceptable in island circles : TIMOROUS
26-across – Waxed enthusiastic about figure in a red jacket : RAVED
27-across – Fruit to place round kitchen fireplace : BLENHEIMORANGE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Mary familiar with battlefield in book : MOLLFLANDERS
2-down – Partly train a director to cope with bottom of recession, perhaps : NADIR
3-down – Poem about bun involved a summer hat : SUNBONNET
4-down – Promised to become enmeshed : ENGAGED
5-down – Right hand turn Jag takes in garden : RHUBARB
6-down – Sailor takes governor to church : ABBEY
7-down – It’s a fair bet doctor takes old French soldier to flat : EVENMONEY
10-down – Boy game to help people across the Thames : ALBERTBRIDGE
14-down – Drag Wendy Hiller to place of execution : TOWERHILL
16-down – Club official sure in re art anyway : TREASURER
18-down – Lasted longer than couple embraced by roué, perhaps : OUTWORE
19-down – Managed to take back outside most of the crosspiece : TRANSOM
22-down – Tired after stroke to point : BLOWN
24-down – Sailors holding girl up to see bird : RAVEN

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21830 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21830 clues and answers were published on Fri 25 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21830 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

9-across – For example, Peter Ustinov can: true or false? : RACONTEUR
10-across – Hardy casually removing lead from dog : OLLIE
11-across – 8’s dog tooth : GNASHER
12-across – Fruit’s zest : PASSION
13-across – Potato sound in the orchestra : TUBA
14-across – Sport, we learn, isn’t made up : REALTENNIS
15-across – Causes irritation with eyes? : NEEDLES
17-across – Paul, perhaps, threw wobbly – blimey! : STREWTH
19-across – 5 down from 10 may be routine : NINETOFIVE
22-across – Shop around for transport : TRAM
23-across – One unwillingly held underwear with mark inside : HOSTAGE
24-across – Regarding Enigmatist being only half-drunk: therapy’s required : REGIMEN
26-across – Virtually repugnant, 51 hair-like projections : VILLI
27-across – Purgative offered when Moggy car hit Rolls : CATHARTIC

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Side of the brain having no blood circulation : BRIGHTONANDHOVE
2-down – To hurry for a plane, race on a motorbike : SCRAMBLE
3-down – You’ll get not very far in Finchley : INCH
4-down – Brave and strong, not entirely like Van Gogh : FEARLESS
5-down – Drive right, right becomes left at the end : PROPEL
6-down – 21-man’s croak, we hear? : MONSIEUR
7-down – See 1 : ALBION
8-down – Strip shown in scene and suspicious motive involved : DENNISTHEMENACE
16-down – Libertine 1 : Harlot 0 : LOTHARIO
17-down – Harshness evident and almost all see the truth : SEVERITY
18-down – Colleague’s pain heard over collapse of market : WORKMATE
20-down – Settle for some honest leadership : NESTLE
21-down – Expletive to be pardoned could be knickers : FRENCH
25-down – Eat Chinaman up : GNAW

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21829 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21829 clues and answers were published on Thu 24 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21829 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Incontinent cows showing lack of power of voluntary motion : AKINESIA
5-across – Flier to obstruct venture : BARBET
9-across – Person in poem is a painter : VERONESE
10-across – Patch together a fishing boat touring Belgium : COBBLE
11-across – Unfaithful lover in novel is scared : CRESSIDA
12-across – Finished one small drink : PASTIS
14-across – Sportsman embraced old workman : PLATELAYER
18-across – Deception begs future involvement : SUBTERFUGE
22-across – Banker transfixed by English brigand : REIVER
23-across – Caroline’s nasty chemical : ACROLEIN
24-across – Time to interrupt credulous resident : NATIVE
25-across – Work the land in infamous prison : BASTILLE
26-across – Old journalist and artist in seated room : EXEDRA
27-across – Enthusiast is after trunk of tree : CHESTNUT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Failing to support a director’s recommendation : ADVICE
2-down – Serial broadcast in the country : ISRAEL
3-down – Bloke with bird on the street : ERNEST
4-down – Fashionable team went forward : INSIDELEFT
6-down – Is skilled at getting round girl; that’s charming : ADORABLE
7-down – Weave corsets producing tension on ship : BOBSTAYS
8-down – Initially teachers half-heartedly comfort trusted servant : TREASURE
13-down – The drama teacher’s carriage? : STAGECOACH
15-down – New sergeant is set at odds : ESTRANGE
16-down – The sailor’s to go astray when on the drink : ABSINTHE
17-down – 22 surrounds church fence : RECEIVER
19-down – Footwear worn by Oriental stars : BOOTES
20-down – Wizard often having a stoop : MERLIN
21-down – Against separating unreactive type of sugar : INVERT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21828 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21828 clues and answers were published on Wed 23 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21828 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

5-across – The front way to Nottingham? : FOREST
6-across – It isn’t played in school : TRUANT
9-across – Cutting short a geneticist is fine and probably honorable : AMENDE
10-across – Immaculate, which is an advantage on the field : UNMARKED
11-across – What’s afoot? A 23 : MULE
12-across – Little one, the one on the right, he’s asking for it : PETITIONER
13-across – A minister’s a trained servant of the state on this view : ERASTIANISM
18-across – Bible stories of a very bad little boy : CHRONICLES
21-across – Turn of speed? That’s as may be : UMPH
22-across – The original 20 about sunburn was used as a pregnancy test : PLATANNA
23-across – Hear a call for some bridges to cross : HYBRID
24-across – Girl in test for radio : TRANNY
25-across – Tile with no T, vocal quality unknown : IMBREX

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – American river and Babylonian city, that was Rome : GRANDEUR
2-down – Wordsworth’s birth was dead to the world : ASLEEP
3-down – He created the 14 11 and she 8 : CROMPTON
4-down – Musical note on top of soprano? : HAIRDO
5-down – … of note: one was a dog, in lieu of a mouse : FAMOUS
7-down – Model waitresses harassed by 17 : THEBES
8-down – Fair morning: do I intend to enter 18 of the 19s? : JUSTWILLIAM
14-down – Top job in politics? : SPINNING
15-down – Butt originating with the head of a pig? : STUBBORN
16-down – Whereas there’s a sort of drive for a learner to enter : WHILST
17-down – Enigmatist jumping ship at New Cross? : SPHINX
19-down – Opposite of spouse’s relation living in 5 across? : OUTLAW
20-down – Things are said to have one, namely a male setter : SCHEME

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21827 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21827 clues and answers were published on Tue 22 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21827 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – A representative is admitted back in the old country : PERSIA
5-across – Place containing microwave emitter, or place containing monks : LAMASERY
9-across – They are hot and cold – that is the start of something : CHILLIES
10-across – Fellow turning round on the way to fall asleep : NODOFF
11-across – Living together in love abode I read about : COHABITATION
13-across – Dire misprint: Three of a Kind? : DREI
14-across – Instruments playing fanfare for alien in best suit : TRUMPETS
17-across – Score in a motion picture script : SCENARIO
18-across – Celebrated Chinese dynasty : SUNG
20-across – In Islam, cider manufacture is made illegal : CRIMINALISED
23-across – Growing trees for a stunt makes one a snob? Just the reverse! : BONSAI
24-across – Novel about a furious revolutionary saint : ADAMBEDE
25-across – David Jason’s heart is captured by a fortune-teller : PSALMIST
26-across – The First Lady left in New York without hiccups : EVENLY

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Languishing nymph needs some more chocolate : ECHO
3-down – Pick boundaries for lake district environs : SELECTION
4-down – A craftsman heard correctly : ARIGHT
5-down – Tantalus tortured with bottles – non-minimal after all : LASTBUTNOTLEAST
6-down – Bully Cretan, making child carry first letter from Tartarus : MINOTAUR
7-down – Unhappy with Arab leader : SADAT
8-down – Getting off sandbank, possibly, or other flat region : REFLOATING
12-down – Insecure beloved clutching a Romeo : PRECARIOUS
15-down – A bold pose fit for bullfight music : PASODOBLE
16-down – Most salt water I would return to South Island seaport : BRINDISI
19-down – In Rome it is consumed – or what you will : ESTATE
21-down – Characters from Los Alamos, Ulan Bator or a city on the Tigris : MOSUL
22-down – Vow by Liverpool’s first pop star? : IDOL

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

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