The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 1st August 2001

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 1st August 2001. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Antidote is perhaps a foot behind the bar
AAcross 8:	A tree is more secure when pollarded
AAcross 9:	Fight about drunk returning weapon
AAcross 11:	Engineers rejected lad's shattered stone
AAcross 12:	Movement of man in hazard
AAcross 13:	Force politician to wear revolutionary garland
AAcross 15:	Earl has desire to buttonhole male doctor for drug
AAcross 17:	Bad weather bisecting the plateau can be focused
AAcross 20:	Many slim and lift weights
AAcross 21:	Falls once more when retreating from gunman
AAcross 23:	Prince only eats one fish
AAcross 25:	Boy keeps birds in part of ship
AAcross 26:	Inch back towards oriental girl	ELSIE
AAcross 27:	Respect ruined after Ben's filled with shock, seeing apparition	BROCKENSPECTRE
DDown 1:	Meet under bar when tight
DDown 2:	One gets support from eastern ally
DDown 3:	Waterproof for man initially immersed in water
DDown 4:	Strange desire to keep uranium waste
DDown 5:	What about pious exploit for lapidary phrases
DDown 6:	Use to drive round Portugal
DDown 7:	Not forgetting wine taken in raid in Scotland
DDown 10:	Heathen erred sporadically in various places
DDown 14:	Give performer gold for a charlatan
DDown 14:	Give performer gold for a charlatan
DDown 16:	In a low-cut dress officer's about to remove
DDown 18:	Club idiot tucking into cheese
DDown 19:	Girl upset about feature on sea urchin
DDown 22:	Staying in Nassau, Richard Strauss revealed he composed
DDown 24:	Attach Egyptian in triumph