Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21805 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21805 clues and answers were published on Thu 27 Jan 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21805 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Nippers reported other nippers : PINCHERS
5-across – Naipaul’s house man, twice overlooked : BISWAS
9-across – A cover to covet, in short? Get away with you! : ENVELOPE
10-across – Grate pickle : SCRAPE
12-across – Spooner’s shaggy potholer brings butter up : CURRYFAVOUR
15-across – Happening to be a regular square? : EVENT
17-across – Bow man? They say he’s not tough at all! : EASTENDER
18-across – Most accomplished first part of clip on mount : CLEVEREST
19-across – See 22 : THING
20-across – Over Rover, not Rex, being prodigal : EXTRAVAGANT
24-across – Moody, follows order in the dream : OBERON
25-across – Encourages nits in the kitchen? : EGGSLICE
26-across – The first person, say, to rent out a hole : EYELET
27-across – Exploits covering half-nude novices? : STUDENTS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Foresight shown by epicene SCR? : PRESCIENCE
2-down – A land tick? : NEVERNEVER
3-down – All head off to Golightly : HOLEY
4-down – Substitutes artificial pearls containing binding agent : REPLACEMENTS
6-down – False gold held in centric structure : INCORRECT
7-down – I beg your pardon, for fairly it supports 22 : WHAT
8-down – One of 39 keeps dancing on ladder : STEP
11-down – Turns over a new leaf and is undeviating : GOESSTRAIGHT
13-down – Scotch maid to share esteem? : ADMIRATION
14-down – Good queen embraces true knight with vivacity : BRIGHTNESS
16-down – Other free radical is thus : THEREFORE
21-down – Equally despondent Middle East leader : ASSAD
22-down – It’s borrowed for a traditional bride : SOME
23-down – The reported grain yield : CEDE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21804 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21804 clues and answers were published on Wed 26 Jan 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21804 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Strong point in favour of long hair : FORTRESS
5-across – A crawler falls back before royalty : SPIDER
9-across – An odd escort for an older member of the family! : ANCESTOR
10-across – Gets out the greenstuff : LEAVES
11-across – Striking the Conservatives as comprehensive : OUTRIGHT
12-across – A reporter playing a Shakespearean role : PISTOL
14-across – Rues a failure in efforts to make lots of money : TREASURIES
18-across – Not operating in the right way : LEFTHANDED
22-across – He wrote The Environmentalist Direction : GREENE
23-across – A singer, a Brit, unhappily single : BARITONE
24-across – Some people put on a gerrymandering ass : ONAGER
25-across – Desiring change of place to get the best view : RINGSIDE
26-across – Leaderless men have an inclination to join up : ENLIST
27-across – Extension in credit facility provision : INCREASE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Tart about travel, showing bottle : FLAGON
2-down – Detail military personnel mention : RECITE
3-down – Social reformer making a variety of babyfood popular : RUSKIN
4-down – Concealing and disguising things more : SMOTHERING
6-down – Valued before many acknowledgements of indebtedness : PRECIOUS
7-down – Joint veto resolution taken in parliament : DOVETAIL
8-down – Not settled, so not given support : RESTLESS
13-down – Cut the string and share out fairly : LACERATION
15-down – Following decline, a European intended to raise the standard : FLAGPOLE
16-down – Wanting more than some, nevertheless : AFTERALL
17-down – Getting awfully stern after tea, they’ll give voice : CHANTERS
19-down – The guy from down under responsible for the spadework : DIGGER
20-down – Get into trouble over a glass of sherry : COPITA
21-down – View round about noon undisturbed : SERENE

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21803 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21803 clues and answers were published on Tue 25 Jan 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21803 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Something of a canard spread about one sleuth? : MAIGRET
5-across – Berry’s description: graduate, county councillor and mischief-maker : BACCATE
9-across – Begin following her, eventually : GOLDAMEIR
10-across – Style of King Herod utterly regressive : TUDOR
11-across – Offside player’s lapse : SLIP
12-across – Instruction to Cromwell’s nanny? What a cracker! : BATHOLIVER
14-across – ‘e left bits of garlic for one who conquered Paris : CLOVIS
15-across – Hiss at first-class return to the state : ALGERIA
16-across – Whisky might flow faster, that is, without soda initially : WATEROF
18-across – Birmingham’s pronounced posterior? Hang about! : LOITER
20-across – Just what the doctor ordered? My lips are sealed! : NILBYMOUTH
21-across – See 13 : BODY
24-across – Communicate like a Cicero or a Lawrence : ORATE
25-across – Anger in turning cold is male pacification : IRENICISM
26-across – Society stayed on line – while he built the Oxonian theatre? : SHELDON
27-across – Thaw out now from this rapid response team : SWEENEY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Greek characters bearing silver, or man from the east bearing gold etc : MAGUS
2-down – Hostility shown to the ailing Bard : ILLWILL
3-down – Hardly a counterfeit coin : REAL
4-down – Laureate’s dicta – or unfinished Newton maths folio, perhaps : THELAWSOFMOTION
5-down – Laureate’s valediction on the cards? It hardly fails among speculators : BIRTHDAYLETTERS
6-down – No neat passage here : CATTLEGRID
7-down – Let ’em ‘ave it in ‘ampshire : ANDOVER
8-down – Pure air contaminated as time replaces power at Wedgwood’s plant : ETRURIA
13-down – Not on your life – or, rather, mine! : OVERMYDEAD
16-down – Gates opened these? : WINDOWS
17-down – Payment to pupils on time : TOLLAGE
19-down – Waterloo winner collared and cropped? : ETONIAN
22-down – My, my! You sound awfully attractive! : YUMMY
23-down – See 16 across : LIFE

This crossword has in total 30 where 16 are across and 14 are down.

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21802 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21802 clues and answers were published on Mon 24 Jan 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21802 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – It may be pointed out in the desert : CACTUS
5-across – Mother angled for a place at Oxford : MAGDALEN
9-across – Arsenal manager : ARMOURER
10-across – Eat, but not seriously we hear : INGEST
11-across – Commercial advantage in rebuilding in single plot : SELLINGPOINT
13-across – Back a mount, ie bet : ANTE
14-across – Strangely ill with bug? No, it’s in the blood : GLOBULIN
17-across – Accommodate a man who suffered in fraud : PUTUPJOB
18-across – Lied about being out of work : IDLE
20-across – Police officer at finish of chase examining body : INSPECTORATE
23-across – Trees having no great variety : BONSAI
24-across – Registered having listened for a change : ENLISTED
25-across – Items of clothing used by violinists : GSTRINGS
26-across – A wave that makes a wave : ROLLER

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Crooked king in a bad way : AWRY
3-down – Not a single female will wear this outfit : TROUSSEAU
4-down – Painfully secretive about foreign money : SORELY
5-down – Union convenors? : MARRIAGEBROKERS
6-down – Absconding child makes mischief : GOINGSON
7-down – A short spell of hostile behaviour : AGGRO
8-down – German city circulating a list of necessities : ESSENTIALS
12-down – Unions need new suggestions : INNUENDOES
15-down – Ivan’s rule – terrible, in general : UNIVERSAL
16-down – Pilot’s emergency exit? : EJECTION
19-down – Guest for the bingo official : CALLER
21-down – Prose form that gives difficulties : POSER
22-down – Said to be top dog : PEKE

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21800 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21800 clues and answers were published on Fri 21 Jan 2000 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21800 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Stop for a time, having finished the development : BREAKTHROUGH
8-across – Retired friend of Pythias in charge of travelling : NOMADIC
9-across – NT liar nearly declared grandmother to be backward : ANANIAS
11-across – Newspapermen could be so tired : EDITORS
12-across – Education will switch it in and out : TUITION
13-across – Petty cash needed but none in a bedsitter : FLOAT
14-across – Russian port calls for chief backer : ARCHANGEL
16-across – Desperate for telephone system, one held by fastening : LASTDITCH
19-across – Farm operated by church : RANCH
21-across – Athlete in cellar, turning again : VAULTER
23-across – Urn is as translated into this language : RUSSIAN
24-across – Much alcohol puts king in wrong : SKINFUL
25-across – American tree goes headlong : NUTPINE
26-across – Churchman turns dry ready-mix in church festival? : REDLETTERDAY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Graduate takes a moment to keep particular wine for child : BAMBINO
2-down – Most distant destruction reaches the majority : ENDMOST
3-down – Gives up pastry as initial impetus : KICKSTART
4-down – Find out time from ticker : HEART
5-down – Wind instrument uplifts company using aria without a name : OCARINA
6-down – Not losing when batting twice in silence : GAINING
7-down – Henry’s fourth wife, plainly! : ANNEOFCLEVES
10-down – Char passed round lake without help : SINGLEHANDED
15-down – Carbon once put outside this place for sticking together : COHERENCE
17-down – Bess needs IOU to get change for onion sauce : SOUBISE
18-down – Beautiful rhyme like Your Obedient Servant! : DUTIFUL
19-down – Broken reed about to pose when moved : RESITED
20-down – Lion’s tail is wrapped in fat with a deafening roar : NOISILY
22-down – What’s kindled again in obscure literature? : RELIT

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

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