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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21814 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21814 clues and answers were published on Mon 07 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21814 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Water jug put back in sink for so long : FAREWELL
9-across – Not sound advice if this tap gets stuck! : FAUCET
10-across – Reader’s plea for original expression : STET
11-across – Vessel serving as a cooler? : PRISONSHIP
12-across – Its members show appreciation for money : CLAQUE
14-across – Road-makers’ base : HARDCORE
15-across – Held back action about wager : DELAYED
17-across – Edward backs firm with spirit and dignity : DECORUM
20-across – Flings about and disturbs the cat’?s rest : SCATTERS
22-across – Where such dealers may end up? : INSIDE
23-across – Kind of folding chair and table : CHARITABLE
24-across – Cold running water is treatment for it : BURN
25-across – Barber-shop singer : FIGARO
26-across – It’s an indication for drivers, by the way : ROADSIGN

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Plough into vile jail : BASTILLE
2-down – Withdrew labour : LEFT
3-down – The Pope goes out to meet the French nation : PEOPLE
4-down – Cunning action made with the French in view : SLEIGHT
5-down – It’s to do with the pursuit of game, naturally : OFCOURSE
6-down – Effectively demonstrates how one votes? : PUTSACROSS
7-down – No rise for those more advanced in service : SENIOR
13-down – A time to pay and a time to be lenient? : QUARTERDAY
16-down – A time when the populace is at cross-purposes? : ELECTION
18-down – UN agreed resolution, though lacking majority : UNDERAGE
19-down – Met lines of equal pressure : ISOBARS
21-down – He’s not the only one to succeed : COHEIR
22-down – Who cometh in play or cinema production? : ICEMAN
24-down – The finest – and worst : BEST

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21812 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21812 clues and answers were published on Fri 04 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21812 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Somewhere in 16 down for Shed to chew over : MUNICH
4-across – Fool around in Defence or Intelligence : MOSSAD
9-across – Worker with the right to be bitter : BEER
10-across – Born loser in labyrinth in the grip of fevered chills : SCHLIMAZEL
11-across – Smooth little bricks flanking a square : LEGATO
12-across – What the winning jockey has to straddle? : BESTRIDE
13-across – Ex-winger’s exercises taking sex god to a city of yore : PTEROSAUR
15-across – French man or woman’s trouser? : JEAN
16-across – Remove balls of money in 16 down : GELD
17-across – M & S in 16 down enters port with explorer : ADMUNDSEN
21-across – Hot drink first put into cereal — you were supposed to blow on it : CRUMHORN
22-across – Confuse lager with bitter, initially : GARBLE
24-across – Story about academic with an excuse : PARDONABLE
25-across – Yawn at the end of King Kong, for instance : GAPE
26-across – Joined together to secure plate containing nutrient : YOLKED
27-across – On reflection, say spots result from an unhealthy diet : STODGE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Actress’s sheep tucked into the pigfeed : MAEWEST
2-down – Neither parent’s a woman : NORMA
3-down – Traditions gone through between nations : CUSTOMS
5-down – Headless bird admitting note is redundant : OTIOSE
6-down – Landing good man with bimbo : STAIRHEAD
7-down – Inept character holds editors up somewhere in 16 down : DRESDEN
8-down – Water music man and two sportsmen entering the Underground : THEBLUEDANUBE
14-down – Good example of oriental-style bread coating : ROLEMODEL
16-down – Source of disease : GERMANY
18-down – Beast raised on funny tune : UNGUENT
19-down – Repeated point about excerpts leading to obscurity : ECLIPSE
20-down – Surprise attack sending immoral earner round the bend : POUNCE
23-down – Falsify personal documents, though anything but bent : RIGID

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21811 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21811 clues and answers were published on Thu 03 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21811 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Even scores — could it straighten out oneês hang-ups? : LEVELPEGGING
8-across – Way to tighten up teachers on length of hair : LOCKNUT
9-across – Meat — food generally backed in German community : HAMBURG
11-across – Set off to start a Gunnersê attack : TRIGGER
12-across – Sectarians stifling publicity, I suspect, at first? : CULPRIT
13-across – Some clanger or recklessness needing reviewing : ERROR
14-across – Bully-boy, growing up with consuming passion, lived and died here : LABYRINTH
16-across – Old hat worn on the way out taken by cab : HACKNEYED
19-across – Purloin dossier unfinished by companion : FILCH
21-across – Means to find a way to achieve driving ambition : ROADMAP
23-across – Another name for a Roman garden ornament seen in article : AGNOMEN
24-across – Public schoolboy cut short touring southern state : ESTONIA
25-across – Periodical change of tone — it may set sparks flying : MAGNETO
26-across – Flimsy dress — of course it could be talked about! : UNDERGARMENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Possibly cruel about king, one with greater fortune : LUCKIER
2-down – Sour grapes — or, rather, a product therefrom : VINEGAR
3-down – Subsequently colleague found how to get something across … : LATERALLY
4-down – … and this Roman acquired moral principles : ETHIC
5-down – Person going punting who sometimes gets one down? : GAMBLER
6-down – One not charged given time in special cell : NEUTRON
7-down – Whereby one may air a cynical description of a model : CLOTHESHORSE
10-down – Finally understand, put out fag, then go about an article : GETTHEHANGOF
15-down – Concocted dream brew — it contributed to cosy kip! : BEDWARMER
17-down – Rock musician to applaud, having not given up : CLAPTON
18-down – Someone put up with long time taken over securing source of riches : NOMINEE
19-down – Act dishonestly, being good in the end? : FINAGLE
20-down – Shedding some light, clobber criminal : LAMBENT
22-down – Pained reaction about computerês last crash : PRANG

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21810 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21810 clues and answers were published on Wed 02 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21810 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – The favourite’s certain to win a little bit : SNIPPET
5-across – Rue bolt being off gun? I can fix it : TROUBLE
9-across – Most European characters need Tory leadership to come alive with : CONTEMPORANEOUS
10-across – Night flier, male, to take to the water : BATHE
11-across – Magnificent night flier in sporting contest : SUPERBOWL
12-across – Not a principal unfinished fraction : THIRDPART
14-across – Sound of waterfall as a rule … : REIGN
15-across – … from land and water in Africa : NIGER
16-across – Dives with French soldier and graduate among cats : MONEYBAGS
18-across – Rubbish on the front page about Poles having to change vessels : TRANSSHIP
21-across – Fantastic Shakespearean copper in a painting the wrong way round : LUCIO
22-across – Kind solver : SORTYOURSELFOUT
23-across – An Italian writer in no hurry : ANDANTE
24-across – Journeyman taking tea instead of usual start to breakfast? : TREKKER

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Almost 108 gallons of sherry in old brass : SACKBUT
2-down – Shocked query about new cars is unhinged : ISNOTHINGSACRED
3-down – He claimed the place of the steam locomotive : PRETENDER
4-down – Chief island’s headgear : TOPIS
5-down – Short pants shortened at either end available in Northants. : THRAPSTON
6-down – He has now upset the Queen : OWNER
7-down – 10 : BIOLOGICALCLOCK
8-down – Greek character piles on the agony : EPSILON
13-down – Home provided for a pound for quiet creature about to be so! : ALMSHOUSE
14-down – Prince playing for Oxford or Cambridge? : ROYALBLUE
15-down – Russian girl with some facial hair in North America : NATASHA
17-down – See 5 across : SHOOTER
19-down – Proceed with your remarks about a year, my boy : SAYON
20-down – Make an assumption from 4 : POSIT

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21809 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21809 clues and answers were published on Tue 01 Feb 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21809 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

7-across – My US car number on the front shows independence! : AUTONOMY
9-across – Volunteers to return sombre tunic : TABARD
10-across – Endlessly asking to see film : SKIN
11-across – Someone doing a balancing act? : ACCOUNTANT
12-across – Taking a little time, seek to be modest : CHASTE
14-across – Decorate a raced vessel : TRIMARAN
15-across – Admits one may be punched on a train : TICKET
17-across – Excellent couple of fellows quitting church office : CHOICE
20-across – Hurts Les badly, lacking pity : RUTHLESS
22-across – When Sister Elizabeth goes to find help : ASSIST
23-across – Treasury supply Head Office with employment : STOREHOUSE
24-across – Final artiste in strip show : BEAR
25-across – Write name on flag : PENNON
26-across – Old and feeble pet cried to be put out : DECREPIT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Pellets obtained with US money, stolen : BUCKSHUT
2-down – Blue drink : DOWN
3-down – A good place to live without showing respect : HOMAGE
4-down – Fatty alcoholic drink is hard to get : STOUTISH
5-down – The things people say about you when you’re late! : OBITUARIES
6-down – US agency managed to split skulls! : CRANIA
8-down – Stop raising putting central heating in boats! : YACHTS
13-down – Extremely sweet arsenic concoction with tea in it : SACCHARINE
16-down – Then leap out of jumbo? : ELEPHANT
18-down – Engineer stands still, enraptured : ECSTATIC
19-down – Susie opened front door and emerged : ISSUED
21-down – No longer bound to take auntie dancing in it : UNTIED
22-down – Means business : AGENCY
24-down – Raised by Black, looking angry : BRED

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

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