Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 29th 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.

Noel - and awfully rude butting in - carried drink for historical novelist (9,5)
Brad's nabs? (5)
Endless Soviet labour camp fenced by stake with spikes (8)
Countryman is game, giving up heroin (7)
Salve! Latin soon takes over the Italian ... (7)
... therefore concluding Vatican business (5)
What's Espagnol to one Russian composer is Italien to another (9)
Paramount, say the majority (9)
Drops off sound draughts (5)
Tandoor cooking, though aromatic, ... (7)
... may be tasteless: dunk one's naan first, add third spice, then serve up (7)
Let Gore know it's not a black tie do (8)
It's comparatively skilful to take head off a header, you say? (5)
Take the garden in hand - refuse to be budged (4,4,6)
Purse stealer found in p-prison faced rogue - 7 (1,7-2,2,12,7)
Girl - the last to be embraced by essayist (5)
Sailor's instructor has no right to be the one who never gets soaked (9)
It's brought in by Jack, maybe, and raised over-the-top (7)
Not the last to steal up to take horse to drink (3-4)
Prussian soldier picked up by divisional hussar (5)
A character in the tale, Lucy's come to grief backing the car (9)
See 1 (12)
Stoop to roll up one's sleeves? (3,4,2)
At one's wits' end, dines out with partners (2,7)
The seat of Empire? (7)
See 1 (7)
Audibly state owned? (5)
Having lost the manual, I persist in holding up the dish (5)