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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21675 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21675 clues and answers were published on Fri 27 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21675 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – So Kipling’s great steamers, travelling world incognito: not a hundred left or scuttled : ROLLING
5-across – Panda car crashing during tour of duty : BEARCAT
9-across – Soldier wearing waterproof: that’s charming! : MAGIC
10-across – See 1 : DOWNTORIO
11-across – It’s Hoddle with we ten, sadly: so what did the eleventh do? : LETTHESIDEDOWN
13-across – Jack’s address keeps a place for the Old Man : AHOY
14-across – See about charm offensive? Who knows? : SEARCHME
17-across – Blackguard and apostate living in old city quarter : EXECRATE
18-across – Haul left in robbery : BLAG
21-across – The Mr Fixit of the Child Support Agency? : MAINTENANCEMAN
23-across – Photograph a man with creativity: might get snap out of it : TAKEHEART
24-across – Faultless banker’s self-assertion? : IDEAL
25-across – Say! Not bad for excellent line one carries : LITOTES
26-across – Bohemian syncopation? : OFFBEAT

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Frost’s poem, the Ancient Mariner? : RIME
2-down – Some bowlers aim to wreck: oblige feet to move : LEGBEFOREWICKET
3-down – Work up? Nice work – if you can get it! : INCITE
4-down – Appliance of modern-day force: get out of it! : GADGET
5-down – Rued looking up Miss Smith’s recipe network : BEWAILED
6-down – Right! Name a beast evolving from the aardvarks : ANTBEARS
7-down – Joyce who wrote: Work hard, raise a City partner and point to a growing family : CARYOPHYLLACEAE
8-down – H-horned characters, perhaps, get around this barrier : THORNHEDGE
12-down – Hitchcockian setting of O! Let me stab wildly! : BATESMOTEL
15-down – Tiny Tim right to get a ticking-off about it : CRATCHIT
16-down – Antigone’s tragedy no good to such collegians : ETONIANS
19-down – Double blow from the micro-network : ONETWO
20-down – Outstanding work sought in disaster areas : RELIEF
22-down – Mass circulation impediment : CLOT

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

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The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21674 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21674 clues and answers were published on Thu 26 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21674 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Rum-running mastermind? : MOVINGSPIRIT
8-across – Who in French film gets Guardian employees discharge from office? : QUIETUS
9-across – One charges single PC, losing business : IMPUTER
11-across – One can’t detect hum with this and ends on one’s back : ANOSMIA
12-across – Adjust to conditions, as must the batsman Polyphemus? : GETONES
13-across – : EYEIN
14-across – This gauges resources and signifies a river : MEANSTEST
16-across – Redesign short business ad from a neutral point of view : UNBIASSED
19-across – Loud parrot describing Czech novelist : KAFKA
21-across – See inventor shake a piece of laboratory equipment : BELLJAR
23-across – Close case neatly : NONSUIT
24-across – One needing bananas hurried outside fast : RAMADAN
25-across – Cruel hoax by one in pub : INHUMAN
26-across – What ferryman’s heard to charge – nothing for actor : RIVERPHOENIX

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – A gold coin extra for entertaining language : MOIDORE
2-down – 6 breakin’ in useful substance : VITAMIN
3-down – 13 motion from big apple men only get to add up : NYSTAGMUS
4-down – Playground music? : SWING
5-down – The force of 9s, not having right to change : IMPETUS
6-down – Concentrated decimal point : INTENSE
7-down – Old fashioned anaesthetic for 9, say : SQUARENUMBER
10-down – Does it offer the first clue for deciphering a setter? Not so! : ROSETTASTONE
15-down – Instruction that’s for use at the bar and not in a brawl : ANDANTINO
17-down – Tree’s one branch in two? : BILIMBI
18-down – Award music presenter university degree in latter years : ADJUDGE
19-down – Short ruler contains short measure for member of Fagin’s gang? : KINCHIN
20-down – Puzzle spy chief with instant outward flow : FLUMMOX
22-down – Would you see railwaymen as a result of taking this approach? : RUNUP

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21673 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21673 clues and answers were published on Wed 25 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21673 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

8-across – The orator’s awkward situation in the Park : SPEAKERS
9-across – : CORNER
10-across – Swallow hurriedly in the bar : BOLT
11-across – Team matter about learner in the test : ELEVENPLUS
12-across – Complain about head, doctor being brought in : BEMOAN
14-across – It’s experienced in coagulated milk, they say : INCURRED
15-across – This is the flattest beer in two ways : STALEST
17-across – Signary used in the plant : SYRINGA
20-across – The AA man in trouble? I don’t like it : ANATHEMA
22-across – Man to look around for an opening word : SESAME
23-across – Erred and began to go wrong in the drinking place : BEERGARDEN
24-across – The garden trowel produces a hollow : DENT
25-across – : VESTED
26-across – Personal involvement in an item of clothing? : INTEREST

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – One hopes he’s the one down! : OPPONENT
2-down – An inclination to use jargon : CANT
3-down – Stretch of water to divide the North : SEVERN
4-down – Austere person is kind of acid about society : ASCETIC
5-down – Harsh stones near the churchyard : SCREECHY
6-down – Ropes giving support to suitable possessions : PROPERTIES
7-down – Some paper used in study : PERUSE
13-down – Cancel change to a better oil : OBLITERATE
16-down – Those officiating care for parking in stages : STEWARDS
18-down – The spirit of sportsmen? : GAMENESS
19-down – Lady Heather, in the main very sentimental : MAUDLIN
21-down – Joint flat, we hear, is required : NEEDED
22-down – Assembly’s thrash held up in cathedral city : SENATE
24-down – River race : DART

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21672 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21672 clues and answers were published on Tue 24 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21672 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Man keeps on in charge with victory on satellite TV – perhaps, yes, I can now milk a scandal : MONICALEWINSKY
9-across – Capital halved for the farm, extending some time into the future : LONGRANGE
10-across – A bee’s purpose: to carry the gold back : DRONE
11-across – Send off team’s inside half? : EXILE
12-across – Sluice that perhaps forced out a president : WATERGATE
13-across – Weapon turned on a politician of little value : NUGATORY
14-across – Nothing left in morose Hobbit character : GOLLUM
17-across – Bun baked, or not initially, like the one in the oven? : UNBORN
19-across – All fingers and thumbs collecting snake eggs, a small amount in the kitchen : TEASPOON
22-across – Denial of responsibility avoids law being broken : DISAVOWAL
24-across – Cut fruit : PRUNE
25-across – Hillock discovered after initial sex change? : MOUND
26-across – Welsh minister with a sin drove off the rails? : RONDAVIES
27-across – Neglected issue in the 1 across affair : CHELSEACLINTON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Was 8’s thing the result of l-lemon due in MMI? : MILLENNIUMDOME
2-down – … then grandad’s the Queen in China! : NANKING
3-down – Egyptologist eating swan and chips : CARPENTER
4-down – Plant grown wild in Luton not functioning : LUNGWORT
5-down – Laid to show war heartless and death a non-starter : WREATH
6-down – Dare in strip lifting Irish bottom : NADIR
7-down – Clever clogs is King of Berlin since 1989? : KNOWALL
8-down – MP entered loans foolishly? : PETERMANDELSON
15-down – Tubes replacing spaghetti with hoops instead of squares : OESOPHAGI
16-down – Greek Hades, horribly nice : HELLENIC
18-down – Medicinal element turning stomach in senior clergyman, missing work : BISMUTH
20-down – Eye expert implanting one into boss-eyed locust : OCULIST
21-down – First shot of rally holds point with bend on ball : SWERVE
23-down – Gore has valid application : VIDAL

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21671 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 21671 clues and answers were published on Mon 23 Aug 1999 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 21671 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – It’s said to produce a smile : CHEESE
4-across – Investments frame-up exposes people to ridicule : STOCKS
9-across – Completes games of bowls : ENDS
10-across – Actors are prepared to appear in it : MAKEUPROOM
11-across – Craft project : LAUNCH
12-across – Fruit with coverings – they’re bananas : NUTCASES
13-across – Courses for craftsmen : WATERWAYS
15-across – Block and tackle? : STOP
16-across – Handy aid to warmth : MUFF
17-across – In which to plant bulbs? : LIGHTSOIL
21-across – Bird of ill omen to an old criminal? : BLACKCAP
22-across – Commercial break cut off : ADRIFT
24-across – Instantly, but not there and then : HEREANDNOW
25-across – Where barristers get refreshers? : INNS
26-across – Draw, perhaps, ten of diamonds : ENTICE
27-across – A man’s calling for Australian port : SYDNEY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Choral work can go on so long : CANTATA
2-down – Where Westphalians may go to eat in Germany : ESSEN
3-down – Possibly show me love in one way or another : SOMEHOW
5-down – Responsible for a convict getting privileges : TRUSTY
6-down – Quixotic writer never acts in play : CERVANTES
7-down – Expressed one’s views – loudly? : SPOKEUP
8-down – Taking the plunge when not suited for it : SKINNYDIPPING
14-down – In effect, I turn out to be capable : EFFICIENT
16-down – Man having to admit set-up is kind of cross : MALTESE
18-down – Principal method of progress : HEADWAY
19-down – One’s childhood in one’s imagination : INFANCY
20-down – Such a railway may make a fair profit : SCENIC
23-down – Put a curb round gelding’s head and get control : REIGN

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

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