The Guardian Quiptic Answers - Monday, 1st April 2002

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Quiptic crossword on Monday, 1st April 2002. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Thieving birds hide silver and pastry in hollow monuments
AAcross 5:	I begin sermon with unusual claim to be of the Muslim faith
AAcross 9:	Help ET out with a single figure - he'll need it to call home
AAcross 10:	'Tis close, we hear, to ridicule
AAcross 11:	Bat howled dreadfully at the fatal stroke
AAcross 12:	Weary old lover takes house in Germany to cut tedium by half
AAcross 14:	Intimidate Jim Bowen's old quiz partner!
AAcross 15:	Hidden gas in geyser may burn
AAcross 16:	Models competent to carry vase onto revolving platform
AAcross 18:	Motorists club travel round rocky American trail to the country
AAcross 21:	Stick up tax as sanction
AAcross 22:	About raid can't argue, or there'll be fighting at the back	REARGUARDACTION
AAcross 23:	We are taking long breather before fight
AAcross 24:	Rhode Island poet's outburst provokes witty retort
DDown 1:	Unmarried lady takes in a model with Eastern artist
DDown 2:	Leaving gift to force student to study those who work on fish
DDown 3:	Beg a politician to run with energy for a change
DDown 4:	Sometimes words conceal a weapon
DDown 5:	Northerner chucked out rancid eel
DDown 6:	Oaf gains aspiration to reach this Lincolnshire town	LOUTH
DDown 7:	Mafia king relies foolishly on alibi about way of delivering books	MOBILELIBRARIES
DDown 8:	Grow half a carrot from seed plant
DDown 13:	To tease bird I'll eat nuts
DDown 14:	However, Mr Lawrence took the royal trophy for his flower
DDown 15:	Bird hits back, leading to noisy dispute
DDown 17:	Friendly relations with opponents established up to a point under canvas	ENTENDE
DDown 19:	Just straighten up
DDown 20:	A venomous mathematician?