The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 6th December 2000

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 6th December 2000. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Prosecuted corrupt abbey and its leader during way-out cat-call in the 20 23	EXITPURSUED
AAcross 9:	See1	BYABEAR
AAcross 10:	This type of bid is top, not bottom
AAcross 11:	Let's sing to Silvia, that she is 90, in Pisces
AAcross 12:	Sometime lonely, now more like a squash
AAcross 13:	Brand I can do with one finger
AAcross 14:	The last word in ballet dancing is very bad
AAcross 16:	Ancient bus conductor on the gin
AAcross 19:	A magnet to get your gun out?
AAcross 21:	Strapping youth on grass - remove your butt!
AAcross 22:	Composer at the end of months playing tennis
AAcross 24:	One with two ears, possibly? That's crazy
AAcross 25:	Language that goes badly in the hillside
AAcross 26:	Fast entertainment - deep's the solution?	TURNOFSPEED
DDown 1:	Antipasto (mince - I made it!) - not for Bond!
DDown 2:	I'm a businessman, one hundred per cent!
DDown 3:	Girl of 20 23, pirated edition	PERDITA
DDown 4:	Break promise to French boy and some of the guests
DDown 5:	An officer and a gentleman? I've got a friend at last
DDown 6:	What sort of gun is the Lee-Enfield?
DDown 7:	Sailor told to go away
DDown 8:	Beg for cake?
DDown 15:	Pestilential fellow born on a boat
DDown 16:	Tell and sell
DDown 17:	To put money on and be in debt, say: it goes up in smoke
DDown 18:	Dress in rising water - they need free oxygen
DDown 20:	Direction to bury a mate in play
DDown 23:	See 20