The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 6th October 2000

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 6th October 2000. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 7:	See 11	YOURHARE
AAcross 9:	See 10	TORULE
AAcross 10:	He was, some said of the Skye-bound lad, a king having no trouble failing
AAcross 11:	Caution opening game plan: author-chefs carry it out	FIRSTCATCH
AAcross 12:	Something fishy about this duck? Try some old port
AAcross 14:	Taking it on the chin, lodger goes out, giving us the key
AAcross 15:	Fool I see in Richard's house - or Denmark's?	YORICK
AAcross 17:	Elevation of priest into a division of the church
AAcross 20:	Still beyond infinity
AAcross 22:	Public transport without conductor
AAcross 23:	Exhausted knight, holding mirror to naked duchess, might get nowhere
AAcross 24:	Constable positioned at this level-crossing?
AAcross 25:	Servant paid on demand?
AAcross 26:	Like the Brontes? That's so right! One's spoken about!
DDown 1:	An engrossing game
DDown 2:	Knutsford, literally where Conservative ran for the money in Harrods
DDown 3:	When fellow leaves for Spain, barely drunk
DDown 3:	When fellow leaves for Spain, barely drunk
DDown 4:	Proclaims, but doesn't begin to intrude in, standing orders
DDown 5:	Hush! It's Newman's "Gone With the Wind"
DDown 6:	No veal raised in this small container
DDown 8:	Community work in the French department
DDown 13:	Cutting communication between landowners and ramblers?
DDown 16:	Po-faced lexicography here?
DDown 18:	The direction of Westerns
DDown 19:	A two-master turning south invariably
DDown 21:	False bread maker ...
DDown 22:	... one could prove it here
DDown 24:	See 2 and 24 across