The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 31st July 2001

There are 17 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 31st July 2001. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	A fitting question, but said to appear exaggerated?	DOESMY
AAcross 4:	See 1	BUMLOOK
AAcross 9:	See 1	BIGINTHIS
AAcross 10:	Joint gear for one overseas, we hear?
AAcross 11:	Arsenal's first to be taken in by red cards
AAcross 12:	Clothing down under open? Hasty adjustment required!
AAcross 13:	Why the chicken didn''t cross the road? Exhaustion
AAcross 13:	Why the chicken didn''t cross the road? Exhaustion
AAcross 15:	You have to c-charge the favourite at a fair lick?
AAcross 17:	See 20	ANDSON
AAcross 19:	French novelist holds himself briefly in palm
AAcross 22:	See 3
AAcross 24:	See 15
AAcross 26:	About to attack and make good
AAcross 27:	Will students take it and evangelists holler it on time?
AAcross 28:	See 13
AAcross 29:	To attack from the air, Biggles & Co set randomly about it
DDown 1:	Bambi to hold club, one contends
DDown 2:	Counter of pulses heading off for the mountain	EIGER
DDown 3:	"Clumsier conurbations not ones to be rebuilt", in describing the National Gallery extension
DDown 4:	Something placed round a wrong helmet
DDown 5:	Relatively speaking, one's kept under wraps
DDown 6:	Do see to Mr Nasty's hard skin
DDown 7:	Uprising of revolutionary king, Napoleon's successor in Egypt	KLEBER
DDown 8:	Composer uses middle note, so if you need a lift...
DDown 14:	Likely lecturer retained by dunce not making money
DDown 16:	Break down completely when Spooner calls me an old codger
DDown 18:	Attempt to reach French resort? You weren't far off	NICETRY
DDown 19:	VIP on board?
DDown 20:	Poets on Dante's characters: "They needed Hercules to work!"	STEPTOE
DDown 21:	Vehicle lapped by another, but only one a Beetle
DDown 23:	Loose women in the family goes topless
DDown 25:	Mother and child of religious separatists?