The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 4th August 2000

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 4th August 2000. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Ugly mark on study of land between downs	WEALDEN
AAcross 5:	See 10	OFWRATH
AAcross 9:	Divers' experience annoys informers
AAcross 10:	Were 25's purple with rage?	THEGRAPES
AAcross 11:	25's potentially safe to garden	EASTOFEDEN
AAcross 12:	Star almost without animal feed?
AAcross 14:	Princess wrote poetry - more than one line
AAcross 18:	Waves and wind disclose Eocene zebra	OCEANBREEZE
AAcross 21:	Count before time? Not quite
AAcross 22:	Canvas supporting cylindrical object with frets
AAcross 25:	Writer with a mug of beer on stream
AAcross 26:	Potential sounds very small
AAcross 27:	25's is not 2, 16's had 6d: a hurdle for the cow?	THEMOON
AAcross 28:	It's wrong to wax without pretence
DDown 1:	25's of our 22 begins what Bosworth ended
DDown 2:	A sign the other way
DDown 3:	Two long syllables, one short, in depression depressed
DDown 4:	Fool touching some gunpowder
DDown 5:	Just a bachelor's, which is nearly a frost	ONEDEGREE
DDown 6:	Message tense finishes go to
DDown 7:	Quintessentially American order
DDown 8:	Saves partners
DDown 13:	25's alternatives, frequently bad planners	MICEANDMEN
DDown 15:	British prince takes five, Golden Cat by name	VORTIGERN
DDown 16:	First name of writer audible far from 1 down group
DDown 17:	Suspended sentence, with agent always holding one up
DDown 19:	Dog second to bird
DDown 20:	Go to law about junk that could be marble
DDown 23:	Sold with 7, 16's went with ale
DDown 24:	Ruin a French party