The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 3rd July 2000

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 3rd July 2000. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Buttons said to represent danger to sailors
AAcross 9:	Made to smile by a thought?
AAcross 10:	The advantage of keenness
AAcross 11:	When it leaks, it's hard to stop	BRAKEFLUID
AAcross 12:	Twice appearing as an understudy
AAcross 14:	Time off for his lady-love, perhaps
AAcross 15:	They go along with kinky corsets
AAcross 17:	Where one lives a little in Panama, for example
AAcross 20:	No racehorse alive is one	DEADCERT
AAcross 22:	She made her name in production of Hamlet	THELMA
AAcross 23:	Ritual miracle one produces
AAcross 24:	What dogs do around trees
AAcross 25:	Did this hen lay the golden eggs?
AAcross 26:	Refinement, for example, in an eastern weapon
DDown 1:	Mortality figures are a complete write-off	DEADLOSS
DDown 2:	This may lead us to the light
DDown 3:	Fraudulent scheme in a soap by-product?
DDown 4:	Sideways?
DDown 5:	Blooming beast of burden that has trouble getting up
DDown 6:	Pondered over the beef, we hear, and warmed drink
DDown 7:	It's frivolous having a tax about it
DDown 13:	They're widely grown for eating
DDown 16:	What the driver needs on the whole is to be sober
DDown 18:	What gunrunners take part in?
DDown 19:	Match for a football player
DDown 21:	Place that was hellish before getting public transport
DDown 22:	Rang the bell as instructed, say
DDown 24:	Its vicar was always ready to accept a new sovereign