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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21707 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21707 clues and answers were published on Mon 04 Oct 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21707 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Artist’s backpay : REWARD
4-across – One member to take part in strike : IMPACT
9-across – A long way off getting a return of service : AFAR
10-across – Workman who naturally works his way up : BRICKLAYER
11-across – Military show leaves a permanent impression on one : TATTOO
12-across – Struggles to maintain faith in the past : CRUSADES
13-across – Cause to appear in bodily form when in a trance, perhaps : INCARNATE
15-across – Stake for backing hotly-tipped runner : ETNA
16-across – Trial run in the theatre : HEAT
17-across – Pipes may be severely tested : ONTHERACK
21-across – Disciple has to stick by holy writ : ADHERENT
22-across – Left one extremely out of sorts : LIVERY
24-across – Exclude underworld leader with pass : DISQUALIFY
25-across – Piece of news I encountered on return : ITEM
26-across – An old record-player : NEEDLE
27-across – Firm plan : INTENT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Chorus of don’ts? : REFRAIN
2-down – Not the best way to beat an opponent : WORST
3-down – Dry off and smooth with sandpaper : RUBDOWN
5-down – Compensate with cosmetics? : MAKEUP
6-down – Gypsum and basalt are different : ALABASTER
7-down – She turns eastern hearts : THERESA
8-down – State it is lent, hence restitution is required : LIECHTENSTEIN
14-down – Ballet posture of Lincoln in square dance : ARABESQUE
16-down – Pope with aspiration to become emperor : HADRIAN
18-down – Can holy orders be so calm and peaceful? : HALCYON
19-down – It makes light work of passing course : CURRENT
20-down – Group of soldiers in particular : DETAIL
23-down – Speak evil about none : VOICE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21705 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21705 clues and answers were published on Fri 01 Oct 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21705 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – A poster to show where the big ships come : SEAPORT
5-across – Make a killing? Leave it tidy! : CLEANUP
9-across – Silence, please, for the game : WHIST
10-across – Big Eddy West takes pupils on the trombone when half-cut : MAELSTROM
11-across – My zeal, born afresh, is for heraldic devices : EMBLAZONRY
12-across – Become engaged by the network : MESH
14-across – Place a tune’s provenance and describe succinctly : ENCAPSULATE
18-across – Putting off a popular music presenter with our northern pieces and starting talks : ADJOURNMENT
21-across – Every bill coming in he sent back : EACH
22-across – Creditworthy? : BELIEVABLE
25-across – Distanced by a date-line blunder : ALIENATED
26-across – Despondency after trumpet’s first blow : THUMP
27-across – Fired type went in the van : KINDLED
28-across – Talk that’s direct : ADDRESS

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Woodcutter with no axe to grind? : SAWYER
2-down – A Kipling character with offensive smell needs to be given elbow-room : AKIMBO
3-down – Disgraceful, but nothing to rouse a gut reaction : OUTRAGEOUS
4-down – With work, encountered overtime : TEMPO
5-down – Cooked sweet course in the garden? : CHERRYPIE
6-down – In another second there’ll be language! : ERSE
7-down – Scandinavian rider lost his head but gained a point : NORSEMAN
8-down – A bit of reading matter, enough to absorb Henry in exercises : PAMPHLET
13-down – Grew to become refined : CULTIVATED
15-down – Quoted about an instance in vain : CONCEITED
16-down – Take a stroll with delicacy – make it a dance! : CAKEWALK
17-down – Depression becomes a non-starter with thrust from aircraft : EJECTION
19-down – Insensitive rendering of bust in Old English : OBTUSE
20-down – Attracts casual workers filling in time : TEMPTS
23-down – Country of a certain diameter : INDIA
24-down – A river almost blue : ANIL

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21704 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21704 clues and answers were published on Thu 30 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21704 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Cocky’s got his own cover, it seems : SELFASSURED
9-across – Brazilian diplomacy may be taken as read when there’s trouble : RIOTACT
10-across – Figure 0 on electronic device held by prisoner : OCTAGON
11-across – Kind to fairy that’s out and fairy will be kind when I’m out! : MILKTOOTH
12-across – See 14 : INTHE
13-across – See 19 : SHED
14-across – Let initiative she’d held slip, as always at the 26 21 : THEDEVILIS
16-across – Operator to gain entry for alternative worker in benefit : DOORHANDLE
19-across – Bowl dropped where Ada Doom saw something nasty : WOOD
21-across – See 26 : TABLE
22-across – Drink dispenser left pub – that’s prison : BARLINNIE
24-across – Slight gradient in cliff-top railway : INCLINE
25-across – Circus artist that can hold his drink? : TUMBLER
26-across – Tyneside acquired one, with a feeling of excitement about the price: is it make of deal? : NEGOTIATING

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Ought Queen Elizabeth to love Francis B.? Cut! : SHOULDEROFBACON
2-down – It’s said to precede the quickest repair : LEAST
3-down – Opposition to the round church is somewhere in the Bible : ANTIOCH
4-down – Take a second to see 13, being tight : SLOSHED
5-down – Recover like a dog from the bulk of the River Tees : RETRIEVE
6-down – Computer reversion: like it to voice articles on 19? : DIGITALTOANALOG
7-down – The first proper American stove : PRIMUS
8-down – A second off being clouded over: adverse condition to follow : UNLESS
15-down – Scottish shepherd’s hut is an improved English one : SHIELING
16-down – See 14 : DETAIL
17-down – Absence of saints among the upper aristocracy? : NOBLEST
18-down – Young actress turning role model before Thanksgiving : LORETTA
20-down – Under Prohibition, without an audience, it’s very boring : DREARY
23-down – William : IAMBI

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21703 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21703 clues and answers were published on Wed 29 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21703 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – Officer and soldier have thank you note to ponder : COGITATE
9-across – See 4 : CLOCK
10-across – Sort of a metal rock singer : MEAT
11-across – It may stop chaps getting pudding to eat : AFTERSHAVE
12-across – One wading in with incomplete follow-up for idol? : GODWIT
14-across – Cuts involving Japanese funding backing traditional cabs : HACKNEYS
15-across – See 2 : AFINGER
17-across – Call US city back, butting in to talk, and start gushing? : SPRINGA
20-across – They help 12s emerge and urge effectiveness : EGGTEETH
22-across – Small publication became fly at an early stage : MAGGOT
23-across – Attractive endgame – it’s needing analysis : MAGNETISED
24-across – See 10 : LOAF
25-across – Settle who has write-up in review? : STEAL
26-across – One may hold up dated short story about to be included : OBSTACLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Over half of followers raving about modern solo performer? : LONEWOLF
2-down – Set up a digital process to do a little work : LIFT
3-down – Briefly leave worker unoccupied : VACANT
4-down – Meet deadline with article probing two strikes : BEATTHE
5-down – Seating for the Oaks in preparation? : ACORNCUP
6-down – Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies : POTHUNTING
7-down – Heavens! For accepting 5-4 on, servant being abused? : SKIVVY
13-down – Means to study how models react to the atmosphere in the fast lane : WINDTUNNEL
16-down – Looks at speech giving support for hermit’s vision? : EYESTALK
18-down – Argue, entering part of roof? That could be raised! : GROWABLE
19-down – See 25 : THESHOW
21-down – Girl replaces lining in pink, appearing abstracted : GLASSY
22-down – Fashionable second course : MODISH
24-down – See 17 : LEAK

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21702 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21702 clues and answers were published on Tue 28 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21702 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Delhi’s turnover backing a drug of Huxley’s : SAMOSA
4-across – Thus I often puffed stogie, rolled I see : EGOISTIC
9-across – Out of this deranged Highland tailor? : KILTER
10-across – Agent provocateur thrown out of Italy, headless : CATALYST
11-across – Such a flat ruler extends to 21? : GRACEANDFAVOUR
13-across – B-be without money for a German staple : BLACKBREAD
14-across – Woman bearing genetic code material : EDNA
16-across – Clan or society for English training : SEPT
18-across – Brave dog left after second nocturnal predator : SCREECHOWL
21-across – Lobbyist in for a cut: tread dangerously! : AFRIENDATCOURT
23-across – Underground river famous for trout? On the contrary, this is filled with chemicals : TESTTUBE
24-across – Cave Era fly-trap up-ended : BEWARE
25-across – Anguilla’s captor disturbed a sleeper : EELSPEAR
26-across – Look at the list of features in it : ASPECT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Munro, when climbing mount lower than Godwin Austen? : SAKI
2-down – Bernstein’s heroine has the city in a fever : MALARIA
3-down – Gardener’s gateau? : SEEDCAKE
5-down – Progenitor of M = X, perhaps : GRANDPARENT
6-down – Berlin brought to book : ISAIAH
7-down – Hot starter containing fish gland : THYROID
8-down – Tempting appeal from the Queen’s Mews! : CATERWAUL
12-down – A word to spell : ABRACADABRA
13-down – A : BOSCASTLE
15-down – Narcissus without his reflection, say? : ECHOLESS
17-down – Paddington’s origin’s a liberal study : PERUSAL
19-down – Naturally sheathed core structure eroded : OCREATE
20-down – Bent American copperhead : REDTOP
22-down – Gone from the Labour Party? : LEFT

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

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