The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 23rd August 2000

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 23rd August 2000. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Create extra strain for a biologist
AAcross 8:	Is one prepared to walk out for a wedding?
AAcross 9:	First pairs chosen are coloured alike - dark grey
AAcross 11:	Run 20, getting hungry at last - like some bacon?
AAcross 12:	Stop travelling overseas	HEAVETO
AAcross 13:	Nick passage for piano Tchaikovsky used
AAcross 15:	Air of unrequited love transformed mostly corny ghost
AAcross 17:	Come to steal from trendy lords and ladies?
AAcross 20:	Wearing suit received for birthday
AAcross 21:	In which one conspires about Scots, showing irritation
AAcross 23:	"Lassie" translated to accommodate one part of Europe
AAcross 25:	Dismiss ethnic origin in sports day event
AAcross 26:	Support leads to 50% of vote - well done!
AAcross 27:	Behave like Rumpelstiltskin, maybe, where one's haunted
DDown 1:	Port served after all mem-bers had hefty snack
DDown 2:	More comfortable after pollarding willow
DDown 3:	Someone getting browned off, still on the beach
DDown 4:	To conceal meaning of record, PC had to swap two letters
DDown 5:	In a class of my own, should I be true to form?
DDown 6:	Clinging fabric sported by Darcy? Lizzie's taken aback
DDown 7:	Routine preparation - does it make you spit?
DDown 10:	Person showing crude quality, potentially brilliant	ROUGHDIAMOND
DDown 14:	Be encouraged by sequence of film - earth-shattering!
DDown 16:	Cope with pub that's used by bikers
DDown 18:	Graduate's mum finally going off Tim Rice's style
DDown 19:	Gets in information about object of savings policy
DDown 22:	Approval given, without a hint of hesitation, for stopgap material
DDown 24:	This situation starts to seem naughty and frankly untoward