Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29501 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 29501 clues and answers were published on Mon 30 Sep 2024 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29501 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Following end of address, enchanted girl returns swiftly : ALLEGRO
5-across – Virtuoso transposed ariettas, dropping intro : ARTISTE
9-across – Old Yank’s escaping from blind alley : PASSE
10-across – Get several opinions of ska? : ASKAROUND
11-across – Kinky hairstyle takes Go-Gos’ leader far : LIGHTYEARS
12-across – Skin complaint of cockney lithographer : IVES
14-across – Street performer who produces liver pâté? : ORGANGRINDER
18-across – Sexy great tit flying way out : EXITSTRATEGY
21-across – Sit alongside big brass that’s left-leaning : ABUT
22-across – Expert on ports, 90, stripped in embrace of profligate spender : WINETASTER
25-across – After banishing corrupt cop, secret police ransacked Midlands town : LEICESTER
26-across – Old English character’s annoyance : THORN
27-across – I cry aloud, then check out : EYEBALL
28-across – Screw that will be ready for use : TURNKEY

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Horrifies, a setter’s heard : APPALS
2-down – Wild Eagles dramatist : LESAGE
3-down – Big, fat cube : GREATGROSS
4-down – Old enough for cigarette, in Old England : OFAGE
5-down – Cabinetmaker said to turn conservative : ARKWRIGHT
6-down – Run, in reverse, battery, perhaps : TORT
7-down – Animated videos about American method of cooking : SOUSVIDE
8-down – Consumers’ revolting rudeness : ENDUSERS
13-down – Circus star Quasimodo? : RINGMASTER
15-down – Governess publicised crack pilots’ weapon : AIRPISTOL
16-down – Former president cried ‘some nerve!’ : DEGAULLE
17-down – Worthless item: wee carving : FIGURINE
19-down – Busy group : ATWORK
20-down – Spirit’s trademark unknown : BRANDY
23-down – Wish you hadn’t decapitated bird : EGRET
24-down – Character travelling north in temperate zone : ZETA

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

Daily Answers

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29499 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 29499 clues and answers were published on Fri 27 Sep 2024 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29499 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Coo! Perhaps it is time to put on ring : BIRDCALL
5-across – Minority backing a little Conservative chap following probes : THEFEW
9-across – Female we bet I will spoil with love : WIFETOBE
10-across – Substance secreted by oleasters, side by side : STEROL
11-across – Cycle around Herts town in the direction of Iron Age settlement : RINGFORT
12-across – Writing on edge of pot : HEMPEN
14-across – Start of briefing is not as in agenda: answer party with opening issue at table : BIGENDIANS
18-across – After heated clashes with many, agree fixture for big match : NAMETHEDAY
22-across – Say to a person : FORONE
23-across – Drunken evolutionary bar rant expressed heartfelt feelings : ILOVEYOU
24-across – Maybe excel with muscle, rippling amount! : OUTMAN
25-across – Such eliciting notice from potential addressees? : DESRESES
26-across – One’s first moved to travel on e.g. bus with three conductors? : TRIODE
27-across – Poor school rings out each time for a progress-checker : BRAKEPAD

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – Gathering with hostility in cave : BEWARE
2-down – Deliver clarification on penalty : REFINE
3-down – Isolate copper, in contact with fluorine repeatedly : CUTOFF
4-down – At Centre, valet is catching Wooster purloining last of garden rakes : LIBERTINES
6-down – Impetuous folk stop TV show’s interruptive material : HOTHEADS
7-down – American university academic merging upcoming pre-Congress activities : FOREPLAY
8-down – Good health points effecting switch in what paper shops do : WELLNESS
13-down – Was sorry about adopting writing system with no ‘B’ mechanism : DERAILLEUR
15-down – Reason a trip to the tobacconist is on and off? : SNUFFOUT
16-down – Lovers – bonkers – at it again indoors : AMORETTI
17-down – Ways to engage with a model : STANDARD
19-down – Admitting Arts Academy deserted very fine composer : DVORAK
20-down – Plant U-turning keeps of course wasting energy : HYSSOP
21-down – Planted smackers on breasts, so reported : BUSSED

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29497 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 29497 clues and answers were published on Wed 25 Sep 2024 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29497 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – The hours oddly spent churning over and over secret : HUSHHUSH
5-across – Stokes derides shifts : SMOCKS
10-across – Vertex of Summer Triangle – dependably evident nightly – essentially blue at the outset : DENEB
11-across – Scintillating 7, in my flying visits, representative of the bigger picture : METONYMIC
12-across – New lander first to penetrate alien world : REDPLANET
13-across – Ara represents this single missing blue-green star : ALTAR
14-across – Evidence of fall, meteoric for one boxer : CRATER
15-across – Returning carrier ship receiving earth pictures, not immediately decipherable? : REBUSES
18-across – Pounds, shillings and pence, steel warped : PESTLES
20-across – One helps out leading characters : ALEPHS
22-across – Sample from traveller in G-suit, features of Saturn : RINGS
24-across – Buzz’s first problem after shortage – result of huge collapse : BLACKHOLE
25-across – One new member of quartet, Tim Peake, gutted Virgin : INVIOLATE
26-across – As an alternative, cut celestial path : ORBIT
27-across – Cherished by SpaceX – Eternal City : EXETER
28-across – Linesman’s not one for stress plugging in Empire State : TENNYSON

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – What about launching a Soviet climber? : HEDERA
2-down – Standards slipping, we fly at night : SANDDARTS
3-down – See Phoebe, Bull and edges of 7 flying in astronomical equipment : HUBBLETELESCOPE
4-down – Discussion group remains animated : SEMINAR
6-down – People on radio to instruct landing outside Belgium are sadly cracking up : MENTALBREAKDOWN
7-down – I circle the sun bed occupied by mining engineer : COMET
8-down – Most assuredly ground-to-air ceasefires will include confines of space : SECUREST
9-down – Having visited e.g. 10, astronaut’s back home at last, he says : STATER
16-down – It takes a lot to learn : SCHOOLBUS
17-down – Characteristic of fans not winning game : SPORTIVE
19-down – Group aboard last couple of rockets set up midnight rendezvous : SABBAT
20-down – University types created cycles in unit : ACADEME
21-down – Hardly the sphere of the old-fashioned scientist! : NEWTON
23-down – Stars suddenly brighter and twinkly on average, before storm : NOVAE

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29496 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 29496 clues and answers were published on Tue 24 Sep 2024 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29496 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – Flavour enhancer that’s stored in tabernacle? : SODIUMCHLORIDE
8-across – Choose frames painter knocked over for 1960s works : OPART
9-across – Give a different view of Everton’s no. 1 punching his rival – penalty! : REDEFINE
11-across – Clement Attlee oddly put away nine crackers : LENIENT
12-across – Maybe May queen returned small, boring articles : THERESA
13-across – Country’s popular backing, after a revolution : INDIA
15-across – Nursing funny person, strips back hospital bed : SLEEPWITH
17-across – Brilliant partner of blind, extremely unusual fellow : EFFULGENT
20-across – New books with leading detective – this may be qualified as “noir” : PINOT
21-across – A river over to the left? A river in the Americas : NIAGARA
23-across – It’s used to pass water Arthur Ashe finally ordered : URETHRA
25-across – Sign Pinocchio’s fibbing about current VIP : BIGNOISE
26-across – Touching some butter from the east that’s available : ONTAP
27-across – Criminal case of infraction – hundred euros pinched : UNDERNOURISHED

All Down Clues and Answers:

1-down – People who sing gospel – it soon rocks! : STOOLPIGEONS
2-down – Quaff drop of Drambuie, and chuck it down : DRAIN
3-down – Winning big, about to cut bananas : UPTHEWALL
4-down – They have imperfect eggs you reportedly put in boxes : CURATES
5-down – Coffee cups Debbie emptied – she might get rowdy : LADETTE
6-down – Perhaps Winchester student gets in everywhere : RIFLE
7-down – It has a clock dial one fixed in vacant den : DANDELION
10-down – Poor US singer way ahead of what Jay-Z did? : CASHSTRAPPED
14-down – After a reshuffle, failed to note cause of unemployment? : DEFLATION
16-down – Picaroon gets shower working at first, which is perhaps topping : PEPPERONI
18-down – Ducking and running under one bar swung around : EVASION
19-down – Kind of cross, hosting unmannerly PM : TRUDEAU
22-down – Tomorrow singer from 13 must be introduced to Queen : ANNIE
24-down – Where to keep bucks, perhaps, for a US detective : HUTCH

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

Clues

The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29495 – Clues and Answers

This crossword No. 29495 clues and answers were published on Mon 23 Sep 2024 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Cryptic Crossword No. 29495 link.

All Across Clues and Answers:

1-across – A sexually fluid work I see announced? Not necessarily : BIOPIC
5-across – Nearby, very angry with oneself : BESIDE
8-across – A consequence of bad hearing? : RETRIAL
9-across – Information on boy getting cheaper drug : GENERIC
11-across – One’s success is in the balance : TIGHTROPEWALKER
12-across – Idle head : LOAF
13-across – Start one’s piece, but not wait for the signal : JUMPTHEGUN
17-across – Old-fashioned medium broadcast modest aria : STEAMRADIO
18-across – Clean up US state briefly : WASH
20-across – In novel, a short section an idiot misread : APASSAGETOINDIA
23-across – Test: cut back the one for me : EXAMINE
24-across – Bewildered by how badly business is going : ATALOSS
25-across – After exercise bring back fish and a sort of butter : PEANUT
26-across – Idlers said to go for the bright lights : LASERS

All Down Clues and Answers:

2-down – Assimilate where fire may be lit, if not hot : INTEGRATE
3-down – Solid support for Rhodes’s statue? : PLINTH
4-down – Seminars using slang endlessly : COLLOQUIA
5-down – One calls for the Army : BUGLE
6-down – Ashen, but work thus to get some colour : SUNBATHE
7-down – Mike redubbed, turning up bearing another name : DEREK
8-down – Dangerous creature, a kestrel – ant is pulverised : RATTLESNAKE
10-down – One or two of these appear in the New Testament : CORINTHIANS
14-down – Mock battle in which the losers are the more decorated? : PAINTBALL
15-down – Educational journey to old city, under £1K : GRANDTOUR
16-down – Discharge online assignment? : EMISSION
19-down – Exams that French speakers often miss out : FINALS
21-down – A barrier of stone : AGATE
22-down – Hotel patron gets out uniform packed away : GUEST

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

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