The Guardian Quiptic Answers - Monday, 18th December 2000

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Quiptic crossword on Monday, 18th December 2000. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Song composed by Dickens?	ACHRISTMASCAROL
AAcross 8:	Growth of obscurity before the French get to the point
AAcross 9:	Sore, upset, so got out of bed
AAcross 11:	Planned to take away, berate and leave the shop
AAcross 13:	Say you will record the warmth of Christmas
AAcross 15:	Is saga a revolutionary instrument of war?
AAcross 16:	Drink in and refine gustatory senses
AAcross 17:	Leader by a nose!
AAcross 18:	Ermine lost tail in covered walkway
AAcross 19:	Remains, possibly Angela's
AAcross 21:	I do listen to someone who worships
AAcross 22:	Drive right in after getting sheep back
AAcross 23:	See 19 down
AAcross 26:	A ringer originally -- best ever and least likely
AAcross 27:	Showing no emotion, confront after game
AAcross 28:	Lily, the leading light
DDown 1:	Smart miser chary, perhaps, of giving a seasonal greeting	AMERRYCHRISTMAS
DDown 2:	Poetry heard when fog is frozen
DDown 3:	One is in this at the meeting
DDown 4:	Stable companion of the ox and the ass, perhaps
DDown 5:	State of being ready for firm head
DDown 6:	Alfred first married in a state of wonder
DDown 7:	At a magical time I let suspect make legal demand	LEGITIMATECLAIM
DDown 10:	Place of safety -- for a Conservative?
DDown 12:	Reel in a number, then some more
DDown 14:	Guiding principle of German spirit
DDown 15:	Implement heard to be an omen
DDown 19:	The burden of St Nicholas	ASACKOF
DDown 20:	Black musical group's day of rest
DDown 24:	Prompt encouragement
DDown 25:	Spruce, for example, decked out for Christmas
DDown 26:	Venerable fellow's in bed early