Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 18th 2000) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 28 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Orally support a vessel (7)
Bandage pillion-riding women (7)
Thanks for gathering a velvet starfish, maybe (7-8)
Nothing in the basics after 'e makes blunder (5)
In return match fellow's replaced by team leader before first side netted (9)
Straw mattress spells trouble to girl in gym (9)
Run away girl drops pen (5)
Retrospectively drive off outcast (5)
Naturally belonging in a missing sequence thus (9)
Top beetle? (9)
It is not commonly corrupt (5)
Apologising for oriental thingumajig in competent dish (6,6,3)
Old instrument - in the wind section? (7)
Place for things to go (3-4)
Refuse pile of cash he appropriated (3-4)
Drink drowns characteristic suffering in one representing people (8-7)
Umpire, perhaps, of last appeal? (9)
Right off the beam when following (5)
Confection from sugary substance (9)
"Room at the Top" in Greek (5)
One who thinks Satan's cooler about rising turmoil? (5-10)
Expand the General Assembly (7)
Catapult fish into vessel on boiling (9)
Peg's back, admitting "small arm produces short letter" (9)
Unruly without holding boring instrument (7)
Table things in Franglais to downsize the SNCF? (7)
Unclean weapon? (5)
Lady's fingers smell with sticky stuff on (5)