The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 29th August 2000

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 29th August 2000. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Noel - and awfully rude butting in - carried drink for historical novelist
AAcross 8:	Brad's nabs?
AAcross 9:	Endless Soviet labour camp fenced by stake with spikes
AAcross 11:	Countryman is game, giving up heroin
AAcross 12:	Salve! Latin soon takes over the Italian ...
AAcross 13:	... therefore concluding Vatican business
AAcross 15:	What's Espagnol to one Russian composer is Italien to another
AAcross 17:	Paramount, say the majority
AAcross 20:	Drops off sound draughts
AAcross 21:	Tandoor cooking, though aromatic, ...
AAcross 23:	... may be tasteless: dunk one's naan first, add third spice, then serve up
AAcross 25:	Let Gore know it's not a black tie do
AAcross 26:	It's comparatively skilful to take head off a header, you say?
AAcross 27:	Take the garden in hand - refuse to be budged	HOLDONESGROUND
DDown 1:	Purse stealer found in p-prison faced rogue - 7	ASNAPPERUPOF
DDown 2:	Girl - the last to be embraced by essayist	ELIZA
DDown 3:	Sailor's instructor has no right to be the one who never gets soaked
DDown 4:	It's brought in by Jack, maybe, and raised over-the-top
DDown 5:	Not the last to steal up to take horse to drink	EGGFLIP
DDown 6:	Prussian soldier picked up by divisional hussar
DDown 7:	A character in the tale, Lucy's come to grief backing the car	AUTOLYCUS
DDown 10:	See 1
DDown 14:	Stoop to roll up one's sleeves?	GETDOWNTO
DDown 16:	At one's wits' end, dines out with partners	INDESPAIR
DDown 18:	The seat of Empire?
DDown 19:	See 1
DDown 22:	Audibly state owned?
DDown 24:	Having lost the manual, I persist in holding up the dish