The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 17th August 2000

There are 14 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 17th August 2000. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Boy's ambition to go with Virgin ere end appears?
AAcross 5:	So-and-so vicar's baptismal request?	WHATSHIS
AAcross 9:	At the heart of remembered sleep, let's start to misappropriate
AAcross 10:	Saying "When" ought to show what you've had
AAcross 11:	1 23 and 26 are enemies: plot incompetently at separating them?
AAcross 13:	Put down one's nose?
AAcross 14:	See 22	SAISQUOI
AAcross 17:	Vegetable cooked by a cleric without energy
AAcross 18:	The oriental heaven is a form of cold storage
AAcross 20:	Principal expression at Roundhill getsgoing
AAcross 23:	See 1
AAcross 24:	Changed over, on, or off
AAcross 25:	A quick coffee?
AAcross 26:	Fireman associated with vampires
DDown 2:	See 5 across
DDown 3:	Awfully fine story, too good to put into words?
DDown 4:	The fossil that wasn't one broken outside the menagerie	EOZOON
DDown 5:	Pooh's hums - even the cows can do them with increased forward pressure	WHENPUSHCOMESTO
DDown 6:	Caveman partly on song, a sacred one
DDown 7:	See 5
DDown 8:	Warm places in the valley the Ordnance Survey has correctly included
DDown 12:	Contracts among sets that may be false
DDown 15:	Cubist, second half first, with companion round hardwood tree
DDown 16:	Guns, if raised, back original work
DDown 19:	Tommy's flowers have lost their tops	ATKINS
DDown 21:	Dog going right across?
DDown 22:	Jo is Queen, as I wanted, having that mysterious quality	JENE