The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 14th June 2000

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

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Scratch the match
AAcross 5:	Shock features about dress
AAcross 9:	To reach this steep
AAcross 10:	Yellow's right in the firing line
AAcross 11:	Prove bad debtor's beat
AAcross 12:	Put tight cover on ex-PM in quarters
AAcross 14:	True alloy's mixed
AAcross 15:	Boat-building, say?
AAcross 16:	Riot at charges to get in?
AAcross 16:	Riot at charges to get in?
AAcross 18:	A circular unit's housing 100 idyllic peasants
AAcross 21:	Popular urban retreat - fields in the country
AAcross 22:	What O is, if M is head of MI5?
AAcross 23:	Cosh used to provide protection
AAcross 24:	Opening base sounds truly brilliant
DDown 1:	Supple plant written up in fiction
DDown 2:	Beasts trap Charlie Chan (about 100, all-in)	CATCHASCATCHCAN
DDown 3:	Stuffing's knocked out of meercat
DDown 4:	Say, one to five in operation
DDown 5:	A sound declaration of intended reconciliation
DDown 6:	Cub takes work that arises by itself
DDown 7:	Subject of engineer's line drawing?	RAILWAYCARRIAGE
DDown 8:	Coming after a little opening to the side
DDown 13:	Material's insulation value to grill	TOGRATING
DDown 14:	'E's out to leach rye meal of drops
DDown 15:	Short description of Princess Anne's body?
DDown 17:	Billieês recess
DDown 19:	1Bow welcoming Orient's rising star
DDown 20:	Swipes hose