The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 3rd August 2000

There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 3rd August 2000. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Dark colour around the motorway is rock
AAcross 4:	Note, for example, increase and work out takings	CASHUP
AAcross 9:	Slight stain
AAcross 10:	Having drunk tots, miscue and produce strain
AAcross 11:	Girl taking turn round island in slow movement
AAcross 12:	Still, yen in exchange is superficially attractive
AAcross 13:	Being initiated, somehow we think on	INTHEKNOW
AAcross 15:	Bring back tackle with young fish
AAcross 16:	Fairy in super "Iolanthe" production
AAcross 17:	Criticism follows when I replace you, they say, in the organisation
AAcross 21:	Sack man, reversing position
AAcross 22:	Travelling case for one taking part in dance
AAcross 24:	Worked on tyres even - and exercised with weights	PUMPEDIRON
AAcross 25:	Drop a small weight
AAcross 26:	Distribute gin, perhaps, by a ship
AAcross 27:	Air point of view
DDown 1:	Following father, Linda turns out a champion
DDown 2:	Lady doctor's rowdy celebration	MORAG
DDown 3:	Hats (not soft) and footwear worn in ministry
DDown 5:	Flourish with a bounce
DDown 6:	Where one lives only on water?
DDown 7:	Man, say, enters into wage pattern
DDown 8:	Up-to-the-minute condition of gallery's work
DDown 14:	Hearty dances?
DDown 16:	Precise, if shapeless, formula produces something flowery
DDown 18:	Makes up in passages
DDown 19:	Bird, not dead, to take on new life
DDown 19:	Bird, not dead, to take on new life
DDown 20:	Pet to lick tail?
DDown 23:	Ridge was in front, for example, when climbing