The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 9th August 2001

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 9th August 2001. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	* Song about goldfish (nearly)
AAcross 10:	Assured of keeping rust in plants
AAcross 11:	Game needing double top
AAcross 12:	Where reluctant Scotsman lives?	LOTHIAN
AAcross 13:	Two notes from a Port-uguese folk song
AAcross 14:	Bouncer at the Leisure Club?
AAcross 16:	Silver ring on the floor
AAcross 17:	It could be bought for a tanner
AAcross 17:	It could be bought for a tanner
AAcross 19:	A he-man died horribly here
AAcross 22:	Orcadian hut for retreating louts
AAcross 24:	Where one holds the driver!
AAcross 25:	* Castro, with the heart of a lion	FIDELIO
AAcross 26:	* River maiden, perhaps
AAcross 27:	Maori chief smuggled gun to IRA
DDown 1:	Capital members' gardens redeveloped for the Millennium	CARDIFFARMSPARK
DDown 2:	Raider starting to arrange a murder most foul
DDown 3:	A novel shovel
DDown 4:	Suited for night warfare, by the sound of it
DDown 5:	In Aqaba, a lime grove houses fertility gods
DDown 6:	* Bridge opponents found after both run away	BUNTHORNE
DDown 7:	* Car behind empty garage
DDown 8:	A different way of asking to be wed at the bar
DDown 15:	Good daughters end as good mothers
DDown 17:	Support for the workforce?
DDown 18:	All I do with a potassium compound is this
DDown 20:	Where sweethearts fell most violently at sea...
DDown 21:	* ... then drank the contents	HENDRA
DDown 23:	He lives by puffing