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    The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 17th May 2001

    There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 17th May 2001. View the answers below..
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    Number# Clue Answer
    AAcross 9: Boating clothes in Durham?RIVERWEAR
    AAcross 10: Lover needs capital as well as love
    AAcross 11: Impressionist goes to poll with drunkardMORISOT
    AAcross 12: Blue (Conservative) characters bid as little as possibleONECLUB
    AAcross 13: 'Ave no one perceive one's thought
    AAcross 14: Raptor without wavering asks me to show in 18's clueKISSMEKATE
    AAcross 15: This is misplaced among the undoubted: it's just a guess
    AAcross 17: Curtailment of a nice day shortly before becoming diabolical
    AAcross 19: Theology turning prophet's heart, five times a dozen
    AAcross 22: Live doctor's rounds
    AAcross 23: Standard party attended by Lily
    AAcross 24: Counter-tenors in bed with bird?COALTIT
    AAcross 26: See 4
    AAcross 27: Unable to swallow half psychology - a dig at 6s and 7s
    DDown 1: All through change of form, trees need time to keep goingFROMFIRSTTOLAST
    DDown 2: Catch what was said of Americans in Britain
    DDown 3: The Queen's circle's in the Circus
    DDown 4: Leading Conservative is briefly among the moderate ones with former date for show from 10 and partner
    DDown 4: Leading Conservative is briefly among the moderate ones with former date for show from 10 and partner
    DDown 5: Slips are awful things - don't start!
    DDown 6: Franco-German cheese gala taking minimum time
    DDown 7: Mrs Marcos says she isn't so youngIMELDA
    DDown 8: Puzzles with answers running 1 of lines and broad Scots clue I must solveDOUBLEACROSTICS
    DDown 16: Puzzler says he is wandering: find them in the fridgeICETRAYS
    DDown 17: Boys from here came from the 21 of 5, according to copper in Sayers' novel
    DDown 18: Spooner's domesticated shrews aren't wild horses with labels
    DDown 20: Bone, most of which is thin
    DDown 21: Buffalo Bill keeping me for fun
    DDown 25: A cast beyond the pale?
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