The Guardian Quiptic Answers - Monday, 7th August 2000 There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Quiptic crossword on Monday, 7th August 2000. View the answers below.. Also try..All The Guardian Quiptic AnswersAll PublicationsThe AnswersNumber# Clue Answer AAcross 9: A thicker stew with no vegetableARTICHOKEAAcross 10: Ooze sex, no saint, almost nudeEXUDEAAcross 11: I, heartless Gordon, - no socialist - paid no attentionIGNOREDAAcross 12: Refined leader of elite in terrible tangleELEGANTAAcross 13: Lotus in wrong laneELANAAcross 14: Lobster, perhaps reddish-brown one, in canCRUSTACEANAAcross 15: Way Christians treat bully finally eliciting humilityMODESTYAAcross 17: Table displaying French dish and waterPLATEAUAAcross 19: Snow, for example, from all points of the compass thrown at QueenNEWSCASTERAAcross 22: Child''s unsettled timeMITEAAcross 23: Seal consuming limitless curry? Bizarre!SURREALAAcross 24: A boy child, you say? Smile, Ray!SUNBEAMAAcross 26: A cure for constipation? Some intervene manuallyENEMAAAcross 27: Poet is searcher after truth about societyVERSIFIERDDown 1: Unusually nice? It merits ban, perhaps, Mr Straw?CABINET MINISTERDDown 2: Ordinary street and a roadSTANDARDDDown 3: Nearly frighten MarkSCARDDown 4: Heads of college order report, doubting your dodgy materialCORDUROYDDown 5: One missing from shows and festivitiesREVELSDDown 6: Sugar and mead? Rare mixtureDEMERARADDown 7: Change buddy in Utah? On the contraryMUTATEDDown 8: Southwest resort features Mae on wonderful horseWESTONSUPERMAREDDown 16: Note: Channel Islands get late backing of communitySOCIETALDDown 17: Request certain satisfactionPLEASUREDDown 18: Heroic story about democrat: many affected by itEPIDEMICDDown 20: Operate on queen bee?WORKERDDown 21: Broken vials containing a body fluidSALIVADDown 25: New Labour embracing first-rate fixerNAIL