The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 1st November 2000

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 1st November 2000. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Skilful strings play in tennis match (first class!)
AAcross 9:	Unbroken part is healthy
AAcross 10:	Try to acquire outward skill in slang
AAcross 11:	Excerpt from Nazi bible put back in place	IBIZA
AAcross 12:	Appropriate length in a driving mechanism
AAcross 13:	Not returning to Italy, perhaps, for key
AAcross 14:	Expedition to see sporting body in foreign attire
AAcross 17:	Makes financial provision on getting bad news about party
AAcross 19:	Unusually daring, if demeaning
AAcross 22:	Labourer having the power to act
AAcross 24:	Is to go back for a drink
AAcross 25:	Girl bringing back something worth having	TESSA
AAcross 26:	Let client exercise rational powers
AAcross 27:	Cart-horse conducted to stable in theatre	ORCHESTRASTALL
DDown 1:	Dejected after plucking birds with one's teeth?
DDown 2:	Ideally perfect note on new piano
DDown 3:	Gladly permit to remain uncultivated	LIEFALLOW
DDown 4:	Oliver, for example, getting Ruth to relent	SHOWPITY
DDown 5:	State alternative to Ronay
DDown 6:	Tree with flat surface
DDown 7:	Boy taking novice a flower
DDown 8:	Its report should stimulate athletic progress	STARTINGPISTOL
DDown 15:	Citadel producing a harvest on poor soil
DDown 16:	He hopes to make a profit from vines replanted on hill
DDown 18:	One who straightens furniture
DDown 20:	Hollow tear produced by certain flies
DDown 21:	Object when time signal is put out for birds
DDown 23:	Confound with a blow