Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21695 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21695 clues and answers were published on Mon 20 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21695 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – A light gold : BULLSEYE
9-across – Accounts to be settled in large numbers : SCORES
10-across – Mad to reverse, try going forward : STAB
11-across – Wasted no time collecting the loot? : RANSACKING
12-across – Feels one would be mad to be out of them : SENSES
14-across – To put one at risk on purpose is a sin : ENDANGER
15-across – Not a professor of divinity, evidently : ATHEIST
17-across – Boring commercial breaks into fight : BRADAWL
20-across – It rarely turns out like this in books : LITERARY
22-across – Passage for half the convoy takes time : VOYAGE
23-across – Fussy individual : PARTICULAR
24-across – Excellent yet not well done : RARE
25-across – Payment to a girlfriend is a fur cape : TIPPET
26-across – Delightful lake in rustic surroundings : PLEASANT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Not quite free to give the result of the division : QUOTIENT
2-down – Bat that may be held in the hand : CLUB
3-down – A new bride’s bits and pieces : DEBRIS
4-down – Turn, or intend to turn, Communist : MEANDER
5-down – Man’s man, for instance : ISLANDER
6-down – Time of occupation : WORKINGDAY
7-down – Irishman at church for spiritual guidance : SEANCE
13-down – Cliché of a hi-fi buff : STEREOTYPE
16-down – Shortage of transport in southern metropolis : SCARCITY
18-down – Betting, using a pay-phone : WAGERING
19-down – Singular-looking giant? : CYCLOPS
21-down – Emphatic type : ITALIC
22-down – Starting with Virgo, Zodiac sign alters : VARIES
24-down – Adjourned for some wine : ROSE

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21693 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21693 clues and answers were published on Fri 17 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21693 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Horse seller, perhaps : CHARGER
5-across – Article in court newspaper : COURANT
9-across – Old currency provided by financial backer : ANGEL
10-across – One feeling qualified to play Lawrence? : CANDIDATE
11-across – Lights on the Headland – a painting by Constable? : LANDSCAPE
12-across – Result of putting uniform on model : EVENT
13-across – Bound, it is said, to have confidence : TRUST
15-across – Though unwilling, took sustenance during examination : INTESTATE
18-across – Trial meant to upset will : TESTAMENT
19-across – Object to a novice going over poem : LAMIA
21-across – Outcome of point in dispute : ISSUE
23-across – The German double weapon : DERRINGER
25-across – It’s a cable running to the east of Sweden : BALTICSEA
26-across – Poor fool to start diving on a rising tide : FLOOD
27-across – Reveals former attitudes : EXPOSES
28-across – Moral impediment of little weight : SCRUPLE

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Capital adornment for head porter in holiday home : CHAPLET
2-down – Greek sailors finding tuna dish in store : ARGONAUTS
3-down – Safe investment for pigs? : GILTS
4-down – A beer chit destroyed by teetotaller : RECHABITE
5-down – Boat needing a once-over : CANOE
6-down – Useful kind of tool in film classification : UNIVERSAL
7-down – Saw an American lawyer, for example, taken aback : ADAGE
8-down – Letters providing support for board? : TRESTLE
14-down – Essays about old people in some Shakespearean plays : TRAGEDIES
16-down – Learning processes tried out, perhaps, in tests : TUTORIALS
17-down – Octopodes in military formation? : ARMYGROUP
18-down – Belt thrown round border by Irish politician : TRIMBLE
20-down – A game cut short : ABRIDGE
22-down – County girl at work : SALOP
23-down – Records with strong backing support? : DISCS
24-down – Draw conclusion from fashionable referee’s rise : INFER

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21692 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21692 clues and answers were published on Thu 16 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21692 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – See 18 : DEVILLEWELLS
8-across – Spirit appears after Jack’s topped off stage : ROSTRUM
9-across – Her thanks somewhat hard to accept? : TABITHA
11-across – Citadel’s grand opening denied agent of mischief when £1,000 is put forward : KREMLIN
12-across – Inverted arrival is integral to dumb mistake : ERRATUM
13-across – Formal attire covers shirt on this chap’s back : TITUS
14-across – Select retreats in French grounds – such will do for deserters? : RATPOISON
16-across – Ordered chiefs of Taxes, Customs and Excise to dry up! : EXSICCATE
19-across – Black can opener is mislaid : SABLE
21-across – Excitedly taking notes : AGITATO
23-across – Mixed aromas embellish love for full-bodied Spanish female : AMOROSA
24-across – Maybe Edward VI’s knight holds fire : KINGLET
25-across – Cry about a great flier : WAGTAIL
26-across – About to waste credit, get caught short : CLOSECROPPED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Take aroma off line : DESCENT
2-down – A rock film that’s not especially big on the lens : VERGLAS
3-down – This is On the Beach – long song about dictator : LAMINARIA
4-down – Instructions for Alice helping with : EATME
5-down – Ban doctor boarding ship carrying drug : EMBARGO
6-down – T.S. Eliot’s randomly assigned figure of speech : LITOTES
7-down – See 15 : BROKETHEBANK
10-down – See 15 : ATMONTECARLO
15-down – Break or make: he bet more than that on black and won : THEMANWHO
17-down – Tinned pork’s taken by elevated railroad to mountain plant : SPIGNEL
18-down – 15 7 10 almost cooked thoroughly without a daily to do the rounds : CHARLES
19-down – Round v-vessels containing silver substitute : STOPGAP
20-down – Shakespeare wants fabulous bird in principle! : BROCARD
22-down – Shot in the eye! : OPTIC

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21691 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21691 clues and answers were published on Wed 15 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21691 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Fighting en masse? You need protection : BULWARK
5-across – Ancient poet’s coming back almost wealthy : HOMERIC
9-across – Engineers en masse? Good start for trial scene : NUREMBERG
10-across – Am I starting to be on good terms with the message? : CABLE
11-across – Pantomime character in Britain and America : DAME
12-across – English essays on Labour are like soaps : TOILETRIES
14-across – See 17 : RELIEF
15-across – Play about church gains currency : DRACHMA
16-across – What a course could do to back her keeping a slave : REFRESH
18-across – Ulster, special clothing article for Kruschev : NIKITA
20-across – Without stocking much of Gray’s work, get pushed around : BARELEGGED
21-across – Journey before the fall : TRIP
24-across – Porter : COHEN
25-across – Irregular French saint coming in to us : ANOMALOUS
26-across – Eliot is a fool? Putting it the other way helps : ASSISTS
27-across – Novel way of exchanging lire to chuck about : SHIRLEY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – The good journalist worked hard when up : BONED
2-down – Story about a sheep in a Western town : LARAMIE
3-down – Setter’s car won’t start – it needs a service : ARMY
4-down – Notice to visitors: avoid cannabis… : KEEPOFFTHEGRASS
5-down – …It’s far from safe taking a 21 on the drug, as only E works : HIGHLYDANGEROUS
6-down – See 17 : MUCHTHANKS
7-down – I abandon Netanyahu in the stampede? Nonsense! : RUBBISH
8-down – Clinton’s flower show : CHELSEA
13-down – Democrat leaders fiddle about with kings: they get more to watch : VIDEOLINKS
16-down – Fiddle of old with notes by 11 West : REBECCA
17-down – ,14,6 Old guard’s speech going out is about dear old new chum F. Gump : FORTHIS
19-down – Reported limit to fuel causes unrest : TURMOIL
22-down – After shake-up, the unassertive become just the opposite : PUSHY
23-down – Writer drunk as a monkey? : SAKI

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21690 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21690 clues and answers were published on Tue 14 Sep 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21690 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

5-across – Bird seen on migration in Tresco? : SCOTER
6-across – Birds presented with bill for geranium : CRANES
9-across – Bird with belly-ache : GROUSE
10-across – Giddy dove circling another bird in the air : OVERHEAD
11-across – A bird – or, to put it another way, birds : SKUA
12-across – An eccentric breeds rats for birds : REDBREASTS
13-across – Wrong note in port for seabird : HERRINGGULL
18-across – Bird in town centre going round to cinema providing animal shelter : WOODPIGEON
21-across – Kill two birds with one stone – that includes birds’ birthplace : NEST
22-across – Bird seen on street in pushchair : STROLLER
23-across – A bird has to mount it : TOMTIT
24-across – Wine for a bird : CANARY
25-across – Ruth or Rachel’s first bird : REGRET

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Couple at work have sex : COPULATE
2-down – Space traveller revealed by start of oscillation in measuring instrument : METEOR
3-down – 25 of knitted jumper : TREEFROG
4-down – Girl’s three articles : ANTHEA
5-down – Bird may be hitch for hikers : SHRIKE
7-down – Hare-brained puss in pigpen : SCATTY
8-down – What Elvis sang about – and where, too : WOODENHEART
14-down – Mockingbird with lyre-shaped tail : RAILLERY
15-down – Outstanding feature of scenery – as well as mountain-top circled by bird : LANDMARK
16-down – It’s characteristic of a twitcher to follow the author of The Raven describing The Raven : POETIC
17-down – A beast of burden is the first to help : ASSIST
19-down – River in southern highlands floods : DROWNS
20-down – Spice Girls’ debut, having first met UN Assembly : NUTMEG

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

Scroll to Top