The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 30th June 2000 There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 30th June 2000. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Cryptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 1: Trail despoils, they say, after timeTRAIPSEAAcross 5: Confused by wild oat sown in 1 down?CHAOTICAAcross 9: Praise is, in this context, oleaginousEXTOLAAcross 10: Choose the players to throw outCAST ASIDEAAcross 11: He nominates doctor, one Greats donDESIGNATORAAcross 12: Run rings round Pole left hereOSLOAAcross 14: Special scientific interest in genetic modification leads to mutteringMUSSITATIONAAcross 18: Expectant boy and European girl set about stir-crazy night hunterPIPISTRELLEAAcross 21: Face up to being put down?LAIDAAcross 22: Taken off in a reverieABSTRACTEDAAcross 25: Still leave off going around scene back to frontQUIESCENTAAcross 26: Told to make an effort to exercise? Codswallop!TRIPEAAcross 27: Mouth 1 down English?ESTUARYAAcross 28: Biting trill is heardMORDANTDDown 1: Close encountered in an attempt to get inTRENDYDDown 2: Rumbling tum is a childhood abnormality?AUTISMDDown 3: A keen Union man, they say Perkins failed utterly to accept GeorgiaPOLYGAMISTDDown 4: Set a clue in Western AustraliaEUCLADDown 5: A sentence to be penned?CUSTODIALDDown 6: Growing culture revealed by Saga readers?AGARDDown 7: Secondary system's spasm circumscribes Scripture simpletonTRIASSICDDown 8: About ... about 100 kilos will be materialCRETONNEDDown 13: Fellow-broker may be a gangsterMALEFACTORDDown 15: Where in the garden to bury herbs, perhaps?SHRUBBERYDDown 16: One question about fruit is: "What is 21 on?"APPLIQUEDDown 17: Choose to admit Henman is one to see the sunny sideOPTIMISTDDown 19: Set up an Italian city in the territory of AthensATTICADDown 20: Coming from no middle-aged outletADVENTDDown 23: Maiden follows bear to the poleTOTEMDDown 24: Bones turn up when thusOSSA