The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 1st March 2001

There are 15 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 1st March 2001. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	His written grammar was exemplary: spoken, less tasteful
AAcross 5:	The Camptown plum puller whose stock has points taken off?
AAcross 9:	Nimrod dished "avec vin blanc et champignons"
AAcross 10:	One for sorrow among the chattering classes
AAcross 11:	Cracked Matterhorn with Roman Catholic artillery
AAcross 13:	Rugby training switched in the country
AAcross 14:	No chicken with turnip?
AAcross 14:	No chicken with turnip?
AAcross 17:	Carelessly applying make-up and hairstyle
AAcross 18:	Lister's work applying oxygen to suppuration
AAcross 20:	Dressing so flashily no use in new penthouse suite development	UPTOTHENINES
AAcross 23:	Meeting one's fate in Switzerland? O, fate!
AAcross 24:	Herald of St Swithun's reign might ordain priest for sacrifice
AAcross 25:	Alter ego literally left without memory ?- it's the drink!
AAcross 26:	Officer contributing to Dolly Varden''s ignominy
DDown 2:	Two revolutionaries gamely throwing projectiles from here
DDown 3:	Bridge players' call to judgement?	LASTTRUMP
DDown 4:	Thatcher as Red Queen absorbing energy
DDown 5:	One might show contrition for auntie's bloomers, perhaps, and glee with ITC error	DIRECTORGENERAL
DDown 6:	So with Mom''s apple pie, weed out what makes me mad (4-4)
DDown 7:	He's OK
DDown 8:	Morecambe and Wise, we hear, sag from this blooming characterisation
DDown 12:	Faced paralysis, so possibly left bypass hell without beginning	BELLSPALSY
DDown 15:	Cromwell's cavalry fell, as it were
DDown 16:	Some queue outside here to displace Archimedes?
DDown 19:	Donkey, for one, bearing trap in Tyneside
DDown 21:	Swimmer more steamed up in Stepney
DDown 22:	Chinese family worth £100,000?