Welcome to the page with the answers to today's (August 3rd 2000) clues of The Guardian Cryptic crossword.

Below is the list of all of today's clues (a total of 29 clues). Just click on a clue to get the answer.

Dark colour around the motorway is rock (6)
Note, for example, increase and work out takings (4,2)
Slight stain (4)
Having drunk tots, miscue and produce strain (3,2,5)
Girl taking turn round island in slow movement (6)
Still, yen in exchange is superficially attractive (8)
Being initiated, somehow we think on (2,3,4)
Bring back tackle with young fish (4)
Fairy in super "Iolanthe" production (4)
Criticism follows when I replace you, they say, in the organisation (9)
Sack man, reversing position (8)
Travelling case for one taking part in dance (6)
Worked on tyres even - and exercised with weights (10)
Drop a small weight (4)
Distribute gin, perhaps, by a ship (6)
Air point of view (6)
Following father, Linda turns out a champion (7)
Lady doctor's rowdy celebration (5)
Hats (not soft) and footwear worn in ministry (7)
Flourish with a bounce (6)
Where one lives only on water? (9)
Man, say, enters into wage pattern (7)
Up-to-the-minute condition of gallery's work (5,2,3,3)
Hearty dances? (9)
Precise, if shapeless, formula produces something flowery (7)
Makes up in passages (7)
Bird, not dead, to take on new life (7)
Pet to lick tail? (6)
Ridge was in front, for example, when climbing (5)