The Guardian Quiptic Answers - Monday, 4th December 2000

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Quiptic crossword on Monday, 4th December 2000. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Preparing spinach or escalopes includes routine tasks
AAcross 5:	Pester an animal
AAcross 8:	Gave permission for everyone with nothing to marry
AAcross 9:	Train to put into words
AAcross 11:	Mythical creature smothers clones found scattered round pole
AAcross 12:	Go west round lake for warmth
AAcross 13:	Appearance of obsession I take on
AAcross 17:	Call boy who is in charge of circus performances
AAcross 18:	Eurydice, Persephone, Icarus and Chloe initially appear in heroic poem
AAcross 20:	Muddled brother lent coat to writer
AAcross 23:	Heartless Lily meets Ric, a student. How poetic!
AAcross 24:	Retract denial of it to police, in a manner of speaking
AAcross 25:	Poet almost takes on Buster
AAcross 26:	Enlist again only to quit
DDown 2:	Old coin representing only part of monarch?
DDown 3:	Run back! Ebbing East River is on turn
DDown 4:	Team demonstrations are not the main event
DDown 5:	This guitarist sounds fishy
DDown 6:	Relied on quiet end indeed
DDown 7:	Vote for English and confused Celt
DDown 8:	It's symbolic how I get all involved in Lego car crash	ALLOGORICAL
DDown 10:	Seasonal tidy-up is bound to upset Lance
DDown 14:	Actor hopes to win crown
DDown 15:	I'm going quietly to the finish - something bad's about to happen
DDown 16:	Understood demon to be legal
DDown 19:	Brother goes to arbitrators to solve noisy quarrel
DDown 21:	Accept outrage up to a point
DDown 22:	Claw involved in frontal onslaught