Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21774 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21774 clues and answers were published on Tue 21 Dec 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21774 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Joke about girl that’s a prude : PURITAN
5-across – Who the author mentioned in disbelief? : DICKENS
9-across – Provide for the 39th US President, not the 3rd : CATER
10-across – Irritable note unknown : CROTCHETY
11-across – Running a company like Robert Maxwell? : OVERBOARD
12-across – I want a thousand giraffes on my desk by tomorrow morning : ATALL
13-across – See 12 : ORDER
15-across – Pound reduction to bring in : INTRODUCE
18-across – Watch me object after square one : TIMEPIECE
19-across – After one Latin meal … : PASTA
21-across – … or maybe another? : TAPAS
23-across – Girl that’s sweet etc comes back to embrace one that’s not : CHARLOTTE
25-across – Landlord’s rent offered during meal, though without starter : INNKEEPER
26-across – One-horn creation : RHINO
27-across – American writer making men sore : EMERSON
28-across – Odds on fish will provide glitter : SPANGLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Small foreign instrument : PICCOLO
2-down – Beast swallows another 500 and a large port : ROTTERDAM
3-down – Beat most of the swindle : THROB
4-down – Fruit makes a number react badly when eaten : NECTARINE
5-down – End of novel 5 across never completed, so died cross : DROOD
6-down – Mate given a ring, deliriously happy : COCKAHOOP
7-down – So be it! Point upwards to this treatment! : ENEMA
8-down – This Hugh, we’re told, can be looked up to : SKYBLUE
14-down – Take back knotted rope onto ships around the East : REPOSSESS
16-down – Book of words based on the old reptile’s tail : THESAURUS
17-down – Finished my work, so hurtful : UPSETTING
18-down – Tiny boy grabs model, diamonds and the birds : TITMICE
20-down – Bloomer getting confused on 7 : ANEMONE
22-down – Money, a pound given to the church : PENCE
23-down – A restricted chicken? : CAPON
24-down – Cricketer is about five, so form not yet developed : LARVA

This crossword has in total 32 where 16 are across and 16 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21773 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21773 clues and answers were published on Mon 20 Dec 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21773 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – Industrial action court : WALKOUT
8-across – Reckless person pulled up short : HOTSPUR
10-across – There aren’t many of these coins left in Europe : CROWNS
11-across – Told, but possibly not needing to be : INFORMED
12-across – Julietês town is just not on for her : VERA
13-across – It looks like the military is involved : SIMILARITY
14-across – Is an orator lost and speechless without it? : ADDRESSBOOK
19-across – Can-opener? : PRISONGATE
22-across – Fall for a medical man at work : DROP
23-across – Try hard to get free labour : STRUGGLE
24-across – Recompensed for returning a nappy : DIAPER
25-across – Looks at with an expression of friendliness : REGARDS
26-across – They have evil ends in films : BADDIES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Naval ship requiring quarantine? : CARRIER
2-down – Spotted horse thatês white, not black : SKEWBALD
3-down – They tend to rush over certain points : NURSES
4-down – Whip up strike in sporting association : GOLFCLUB
5-down – Loan shark certain to be found in the City : USURER
6-down – The bloom of life? : PUBERTY
9-down – Put a simpler form of material for test : LITMUSPAPER
15-down – Agree end will be terrible for traitor : RENEGADE
16-down – Elderly crew of experienced campaigners : OLDHANDS
17-down – A relative right in the midst of trouble : BROTHER
18-down – Reported to be held at gunpoint : COVERED
20-down – Cry out – to the police? : SQUEAL
21-down – Aim by listener to win affection : ENDEAR

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21771 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21771 clues and answers were published on Fri 17 Dec 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21771 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Thank God it’s this helpful man! : FRIDAY
5-across – Girl anyway seen in church after ten for afternoon diversion : TEADANCE
9-across – Repairing vest with rope is to transgress : OVERSTEP
10-across – Yes, a company needs to be turned round, says Irish dramatist : OCASEY
11-across – Bather in distress, suffering. How exciting! : BREATHTAKING
13-across – Callas losing head in Your tiny hand is frozen? : ARIA
14-across – Antlion with a fickle public : NATIONAL
17-across – Jailer in battle costume : WARDRESS
18-across – Suspends only half of one’s objectives : ENDS
20-across – Musical time for togetherness converted Pope and Lamb about bereavement : APPLEBLOSSOM
23-across – City of music where the Queen returns after six : VIENNA
24-across – Pain in the neck conceals hairstyle, so Iêm hearing : TRIBUNAL
25-across – Large fish when turning round shows no e.g. tracks : STURGEON
26-across – Repetitive selection if only the first were last : ECHOIC

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Blue-black crow loses tail in storm : RAVE
3-down – Here’s the target: tuck, meals : DARTBOARD
4-down – Try tea brewed like this to make you babble : YATTER
5-down – To say something indiscreet is to perform an awkward manoeuvre : TOPUTONESFOOTIN
6-down – Heês changed his views in a Post Office report : APOSTATE
7-down – I’m unhappy! I have a deficiency : ALACK
8-down – Innocence shown by well-scrubbed crew : CLEANHANDS
12-down – Chance for tennis player to change pink boater : BREAKPOINT
15-down – See 5 : ONESMOUTH
16-down – Member all but hiding published sheet : MEMBRANE
19-down – Long snake put down with anger : ASPIRE
21-down – One carried by old railway and Titanic? : LINER
22-down – Vehicle: one attracting a levy : TAXI

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21770 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21770 clues and answers were published on Thu 16 Dec 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21770 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Nasty skin complaint through sprawling outside : BITCHY
6-across – US barman serves awkward customer – a Yank : SODAJERK
9-across – Horse to take you for a ride? : RINGER
10-across – Barrister has a day to digest case in brief : ADVOCATE
11-across – Family group, mean and furtive : CLANDESTINE
15-across – Catching Hague out, Lib Dem tee-heed : LAUGHED
17-across – Waste time after game swings back : GARBAGE
18-across – Enter finally into agreement in spite of underhand dealings : MALPRACTICE
22-across – Cat with another injury : WHIPLASH
23-across – One may smoke over a packet : FUNNEL
24-across – Mutilated carcases, with initial number up 900, reveal the slaughter : MASSACRE
25-across – Back in bed, sick and wan : PALLID

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Fateful lifeline? : THREAD
2-down – Vamp to make good dilapidated JCB : GOLDDIGGER
3-down – Wreck bears out type of destroyer : SABOTEUR
4-down – Prison term for quack, say : BIRDCALL
5-down – Treat as skin and bone old king denied sustenance : TANTALUS
7-down – Test for PM? : EXAM
8-down – Look up an’ doon : KEEK
12-down – Rode southern dales – badly chafed : SADDLESORE
13-down – Paper-chase? : NATIONAL
14-down – Beauty wearing red rose : REBELLED
16-down – House accommodation? : HOMELOAN
19-down – Leg’s game – in car crash with learner : CRURAL
20-down – Reeled from second stomach upset : SWAM
21-down – Likes making nasty remarks : DIGS

This crossword has in total 26 where 12 are across and 14 are down.

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21769 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21769 clues and answers were published on Wed 15 Dec 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21769 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – A river skirts Crosby, a town in England : ABINGDON
5-across – Son strode out when out of his skull : SPACED
9-across – Sovereign introduced to metalworker! That’s a fluke! : FLOUNDER
10-across – Spooks beset people returning from place of entertainment : CINEMA
11-across – Drink tisane brewed by Lawrence : ANISETTE
12-across – Native of seaside resort with no good hotel : BRITON
14-across – City in America canonised in Russia : PETERSBURG
18-across – Companion embraces sweetheart with desire – not as it’s reported : CLOVEHITCH
22-across – It is quite clear the monkey is wearing a hat : LIMPID
23-across – Bob’s making fun of needlework : SMOCKING
24-across – Reptilian soldier turned to university articles : IGUANA
25-across – Writer of note from Fair Isle : CLEMENTI
26-across – The Parisian follows requirement for a sewer : NEEDLE
27-across – The railway in an army camp on an island : BALINESE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A couple of fellows skate and row : AFFRAY
2-down – It’s incongruous that one club supports another : IRONIC
3-down – A shufti round site of air traffic control centre : GANDER
4-down – Public beneficiary receives a broadcast : OVERTHEAIR
6-down – Plain language written about border flower : PRIMROSE
7-down – Danish king receives ancient request for wood : CHESTNUT
8-down – Water soaking away from bedraggled gardenia : DRAINAGE
13-down – Statesman embraces one and all on the island. That’s sweet : PEACHMELBA
15-down – Kitchen staff gather in Israel : SCULLION
16-down – Rodent roomed with us unfortunately : DORMOUSE
17-down – Iron Age re-settlement looking initially to be from a certain area : REGIONAL
19-down – Tinker takes one kind of food : SCAMPI
20-down – Apron for local tucking into tart : PINNIE
21-down – Brown coal left off fire : IGNITE

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

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