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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 18th July 2000

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 18th July 2000. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: A foreign correspondent
AAcross 6: Five notes joined together
AAcross 9: Six Scots talking about an old language
AAcross 10: Show respect for man nursing dreadful clue about France
AAcross 11: Silly talk of she-elephant having a nasty smell
AAcross 12: Miss newfangled fads
AAcross 14: A step in kinky underwear
AAcross 15: Get tax back and earn, we hear, a holiday place in Greece
AAcross 17: Backed-up river's got nothing and produces yellow oil
AAcross 19: Fighting caused by drink at university
AAcross 20: Bound, they say, to ebb and flow
AAcross 22: Perform on flat surface and perform in the opposite direction
AAcross 25: Two girls meet an optimist
AAcross 26: Tie poles into small diagram
AAcross 27: Raise a kind of fly
AAcross 28: Three-legged competition
DDown 1: Fleece father's housemaster
DDown 2: Padded but not in the middleNEXTMANIN
DDown 3: Cheapskate first organised party machine to produce results with no pattern
DDown 4: For example, force copper coppers into small holders
DDown 5: Data, mostly taking in Great Britain, concerning unnamed missile
DDown 6: A-class grass
DDown 7: Very important show trial
DDown 8: Make a timely impression
DDown 13: Zealous advocate may otherwise avenge record
DDown 14: Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions
DDown 16: See 7
DDown 18: Portend new equipment for catching fishDROPNET
DDown 19: Joke I made about "Punch" in another language
DDown 21: A bunch of flowers
DDown 23: God beat around it
DDown 24: Auntie's own protection against flooding?
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