The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 8th December 2000

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 8th December 2000. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	An animated film enthusiast is at a play
AAcross 9:	The capital of Greece and the capital of Albania followed by the capital of Serbia
AAcross 10:	An embarrassing incident heard or observed
AAcross 11:	Old artiste doing a turn in the grave?	LAIDTOREST
AAcross 12:	Incendiary material can finish a tree
AAcross 14:	Cigars with revolutionary origins
AAcross 15:	Rattle's false alarm
AAcross 17:	Notices about "Shine", say, or "Truly, Madly, Deeply", for example
AAcross 20:	Greek island importing clean dressed hides
AAcross 22:	A woman in America or in another country
AAcross 23:	Odd sort of hand, etc
AAcross 24:	Snow used as fuel
AAcross 25:	Poised, at ease, inwardly calm
AAcross 26:	Covering: for example, covering northern bird
DDown 1:	Is flipping Tarzan right for the title role?
DDown 2:	Crazy about rock
DDown 3:	Refuge for youth leader in a squalid district
DDown 4:	Dance about repeatedly on outskirts of Brazilian city
DDown 5:	Crazy, like "The" in the Guardian's logo?
DDown 6:	Circus performer - a heretic or revolutionary
DDown 7:	German and Swiss leader and French and Norwegian novelist
DDown 13:	Throw in a religious medal	AFRICASTAR
DDown 16:	Petrol for van costing nothing
DDown 18:	Bishop without polish
DDown 19:	Moneylender receiving pence he takes unlawfully
DDown 21:	Cats in the pound?
DDown 22:	A prop on land
DDown 24:	Young reporter on a Caribbean island