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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21826 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21826 clues and answers were published on Mon 21 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21826 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Throw oneself into exercises without a breather : PLUNGE
4-across – Still used as a name for a US lake : PLACID
9-across – Member of the opposition in Victorian times : ANTI
10-across – Envious reaction not worth pressing? : SOURGRAPES
11-across – Old Christmas present 45 inches long : NOWELL
12-across – Extra fashionable line in trousers : INCREASE
13-across – Feed a pet sugar, perhaps : PASTURAGE
15-across – She lives in Los Angeles : LISA
16-across – Question a cause of inflation : PUMP
17-across – Delivery secures wicket before end of the game : BAGATELLE
21-across – Wild Etruscan horsemen : CENTAURS
22-across – Pardon and release : EXCUSE
24-across – Split tongue, perhaps… : SERBOCROAT
25-across – Novel timepiece : ITEM
26-across – It’s evenly distributed as a name for either sex : EVELYN
27-across – Sayings of modern times : ADAGES

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Criticise girl for releasing the evils of the world? : PANDORA
2-down – Marry a French female without sex appeal : UNITE
3-down – Tell-tale governor : GESSLER
5-down – Willingly left member with account to pay finally : LEGACY
6-down – Potentially fierce sea battle avoided by this : CEASEFIRE
7-down – Strangely, when there’s more than one they become high : DEEPSEA
8-down – Predominant desire of a despot? : RULINGPASSION
14-down – Schedule means item is thrown overboard : TIMETABLE
16-down – Quietly withdraw and go before the others : PRECEDE
18-down – Broken treadle had a warning notice : ALERTED
19-down – Declines to give oral classes : LESSENS
20-down – Call for resignation causes uproar : OUTCRY
23-down – Many fish act like limpets : CLING

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21824 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21824 clues and answers were published on Fri 18 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21824 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Find one hole in vestry: is Father Brown in it? : DETECTIVESTORY
9-across – For fliers with oxygen left behind : AIRPORT
10-across – Present Eastern box to rope-maker : ESPARTO
11-across – Love to be with friends – they’re precious : OPALS
12-across – Such a mill could be converted into a theatre : MUSICHALL
13-across – Stale spice – it’s not wet now : DRYSEASON
14-across – Phoney issue, but if only you knew her! : SUSIE
15-across – What’s happening in Deventer? : EVENT
17-across – Backtrack to origin of sponsor at baptism : GODPARENT
20-across – Deciphering chronology in prison? : DOINGTIME
22-across – Setter, perhaps, to travel without moving : DOGGO
23-across – Not fighting fair : NEUTRAL
24-across – Paper modelling originally made with friend in Paris : ORIGAMI
25-across – Notice on gate: how to grade beef anyhow : BEWAREOFTHEDOG

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Celebration of card partnership : DIAMONDWEDDING
2-down – Two sailors, unknown in old Eurasian empire : TARTARY
3-down – One hundred columns retreat from look-out platform : CROWSNEST
4-down – Breathes in this fashion round maiden’s narrow neck : ISTHMUS
5-down – Poet picks me up, being topless : EMERSON
6-down – To pick up half the question : TOPIC
7-down – Again interprets what’s right before needing notices : REREADS
8-down – Tedious individual breaking down : SOULDESTROYING
14-down – Smooth sole could be changed for calf’s dish : SCALDFISH
16-down – Mince pie and kipper for bon vivant : EPICURE
17-down – Grand elevation that is made by gamekeeper : GHILLIE
18-down – Fido fed poorly – languished : DIEDOFF
19-down – It’s no good cutting up an antelope in the country : ENGLAND
21-down – A bore found upside-down in Italian lake : GARDA

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21823 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21823 clues and answers were published on Thu 17 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21823 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Copper’s helmet may go flying : CUSHAT
4-across – H is for alcoholic capacity : HOGSHEAD
9-across – Pole on a Hebridean island : STAFFA
10-across – It may be insufficient for a slam at bridge : HEADROOM
11-across – Two of a kind if not fraternal : IDENTICALTWINS
13-across – Sanctimonious crowd swot for preliminary assessment : PILOTSTUDY
14-across – Priest entertained by female vicar : LEVI
16-across – Eastern half of 13 across in the garden : EDEN
18-across – Perhaps the worst disease in living memory : ALZHEIMERS
21-across – One given to relate incomplete verity in a fashion : INVETERATELIAR
23-across – Double gin and it could be playing with fire : IGNITING
24-across – Port of Spain, an old city brought to life : VIGOUR
25-across – Caught setter with that woman in the end : ENMESHED
26-across – Mushroom growth of eastern dignitary, getting almost wealthy : AGARIC

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A lot of it flows between banks : CASH
2-down – Disgrace of boy brought up after search : SCANDAL
3-down – Attraction that could lead to incest : AFFINITY
5-down – Hands out pen from a simple case : OPENANDSHUT
6-down – One could get teased for being staid : SEDATE
7-down – I’ve got to book up before moving : EMOTIVE
8-down – Millennium project endures losing royal servants : DOMESTICS
12-down – Ran election chaotically, showing inability to endure possible consequence : INTOLERANCE
13-down – Epic change in cost – a huge drop : PRECIPICE
15-down – Writer who is not in at present? : FIELDING
17-down – Poison makes space for a number to move freely about : ENVENOM
19-down – We get a bad name with our charm : ENAMOUR
20-down – Whatever America claims … : STATES
22-down – … he shows the Queen is in command : ERIC

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21822 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21822 clues and answers were published on Wed 16 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21822 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

4-across – Ali’s : LISTON
6-across – Explosive bits spoiled her plans : SHRAPNEL
9-across – Each dish is eaten by a champion : APIECE
10-across – Trouble at school? Dunce has to crawl about outside : CLASSWAR
11-across – See 18 : HAPPENATSEA
15-across – Consent to dismantle High Tor? : RIGHTOH
17-across – Badly ventilated returning from scene in Twelfth Night : ILLYRIA
18-across – Not an utter disaster, but it made an awfully hot saga in the 7 25 : WORSETHINGS
22-across – It’s simple to take in the little prince in a financial transaction : PURCHASE
23-across – Forty days with a forty-nine pulse : LENTIL
24-across – Grouse nearly arrived on the steppe : COMPLAIN
25-across – See 7 : PAPERS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Cold water poured over one to say Please be quiet? : DOUCHE
2-down – Report of high table in deal indicates a cultural ignoramus : PHILISTINE
3-down – Building after war – that’s why he aided us : MARSHALL
4-down – Field where the choo-choo is hard to chew : LEATHERY
5-down – Gas pipe left off – how much off? : SLIPPAGE
7-down – Press : NEWS
8-down – I get up early for fun : LARK
12-down – Sententious in referring to the past about the pub : APHORISTIC
13-down – Beast about to catch girl – not fair! : BRUNETTE
14-down – Work of Johnson the painter’s at auctions that are coming up : RASSELAS
16-down – Local authority has a pull with everyone on National Health initially : TOWNHALL
19-down – Comment by one in 10 and 14 on man : HEEHAW
20-down – Like Gone with the Wind for the picture industry? : EPIC
21-down – A proper rose? : PRIM

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21821 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21821 clues and answers were published on Tue 15 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21821 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – See 10 : TOMORROW
5-across – Right on time? No! Later, you ass! : ONAGER
9-across – Flashers or gnashers : GOLDTEETH
11-across – Nora Batty to disembowel an ape? : ORANG
12-across – Parry’s motivation: Blame their failure on corruption! : RAPIERTHRUST
15-across – Tumult raised at abattoir’s closure : RIOT
16-across – Executed, having attempted the murder of Eos : SHOTATDAWN
18-across – Singin’ a song ____, in concert : SIDEBYSIDE
19-across – Any Bront? sister roped into service? : BELL
21-across – Some time since Julian Clary neared a disaster : CALENDARYEAR
24-across – Here Caruso arrived at work on time : OPERA
25-across – Preparation against the offensive : DEODORANT
26-across – Austerity city lets one knock back a gin on Sunday : SPARTA
27-across – He’s paid to make bank transfers : FERRYMAN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Takeaway republic? : TOGO
2-down – Slippery type of drug-runner : MULE
3-down – Rotter with the Pied Piper’s haul : RATBAG
4-down – A 10 1across affair? : ONENIGHTSTAND
6-down – Hot type one cast into new type : NEOPHYTE
7-down – A lunar force returned to spread grass with gritty bits : GRANULATED
8-down – Tory spin doctor’s aim: a quarter of the revolution : RIGHTANGLE
10-down – Right! One, two, three – go! Or may do otherwise, but not for long : HERETODAYGONE
13-down – Wren, familiarly say, angry when hatched : CRISSCROSS
14-down – Range rider, callow out West, shot! : CORDILLERA
17-down – Rich worker attached to a German union : ABUNDANT
20-down – Party colours worn with grace? : FAVOUR
22-down – Oil producer a friend to many : PALM
23-down – See 11 : UTAN

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

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