The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 6th December 2000

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

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Prosecuted corrupt abbey and its leader during way-out cat-call in the 20 23	EXITPURSUED
AAcross 9:	See1	BYABEAR
AAcross 10:	This type of bid is top, not bottom
AAcross 11:	Let's sing to Silvia, that she is 90, in Pisces
AAcross 12:	Sometime lonely, now more like a squash
AAcross 13:	Brand I can do with one finger
AAcross 14:	The last word in ballet dancing is very bad
AAcross 16:	Ancient bus conductor on the gin
AAcross 19:	A magnet to get your gun out?
AAcross 21:	Strapping youth on grass - remove your butt!
AAcross 22:	Composer at the end of months playing tennis
AAcross 24:	One with two ears, possibly? That's crazy
AAcross 25:	Language that goes badly in the hillside
AAcross 26:	Fast entertainment - deep's the solution?	TURNOFSPEED
DDown 1:	Antipasto (mince - I made it!) - not for Bond!
DDown 2:	I'm a businessman, one hundred per cent!
DDown 3:	Girl of 20 23, pirated edition	PERDITA
DDown 4:	Break promise to French boy and some of the guests
DDown 5:	An officer and a gentleman? I've got a friend at last
DDown 6:	What sort of gun is the Lee-Enfield?
DDown 7:	Sailor told to go away
DDown 8:	Beg for cake?
DDown 15:	Pestilential fellow born on a boat
DDown 16:	Tell and sell
DDown 17:	To put money on and be in debt, say: it goes up in smoke
DDown 18:	Dress in rising water - they need free oxygen
DDown 20:	Direction to bury a mate in play
DDown 23:	See 20