The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 1st June 2000

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 1st June 2000. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Wade, perhaps in Surrey water
AAcross 9:	See 18	OFTHE
AAcross 10:	See 26
AAcross 11:	One day TV is to be free of offensive recording	VIDEONASTY
AAcross 12:	See 25
AAcross 14:	Spooner has to offer a kick up the backside to get a drink in North America
AAcross 15:	Home of the meadow pipit, perhaps, most inadequate
AAcross 17:	Cumbrian town in H. Pinter play	PENRITH
AAcross 20:	Extinct bird with nails hammered in - work of Enigmatist?	MONALISA
AAcross 22:	Poet's boring to study
AAcross 23:	Spider, if black, say, a feature of Dracula?
AAcross 24:	Railway from Birmingham reportedly to be cut
AAcross 25:	Crustaceans in spring water all at sea
AAcross 26:	Mistress got her teeth into the Arsenal?	BITONTHE
DDown 1:	One work unit's about to be in line for delicate metalwork
DDown 2:	Fit for party leader? The leader has been deposed
DDown 3:	See 18
DDown 4:	Comic cut short: time's up for comic character	DANDARE
DDown 5:	Move the old books I'm mad about?
DDown 6:	Home Secretary and rock'n'roll guitarist: one's barren, another's wild
DDown 7:	Make one's home in Cumbrian town
DDown 13:	Aussie flier twice took gold, overhauling silver both times	WONGAWONGA
DDown 16:	Shearer's possession, the overhead kick
DDown 18:	Ken Livingstone and the FT go h-h-horribly together for a culling of Tory ministers	THENIGHT
DDown 19:	Bond once by following Buddhism south of Los Angeles	LAZENBY
DDown 21:	Drug given for nothing? Then one's head going round
DDown 22:	Plane providing information about fighter's downfall
DDown 24:	See 18