The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 4th January 2012

There are 15 across clues and 20 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 4th January 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Gloomy day, wasting time that's left
AAcross 10:	Come to a farewell party
AAcross 11:	They may be precious old friends
AAcross 12:	Ex-Greek leader rudely treated large-hearted Texan
AAcross 13:	A part of London's in blossom in advance
AAcross 14:	Searching, hearing
AAcross 17:	Beside Potsdam Central Station
AAcross 19:	See 12
AAcross 20:	Acknowledge Bill's a monk when she's not there
AAcross 21:	Explain complicated clue, a right puzzler initially!
AAcross 22:	Impure, I quietly run away and sleep at home when he calls
AAcross 24:	Perhaps 4 turned to assume a fighting attitude
AAcross 26:	Sir Kay spent hours in darkness
AAcross 28:	See 12
AAcross 29:	Compound of ochre salt or salts
DDown 1:	Non-aspirational, smells bad, getting court order	ASBO
DDown 2:	Bout of illness whilst eating?
DDown 3:	What's cheeky, penetrating, comparatively bold and not at all salty?
DDown 3:	What's cheeky, penetrating, comparatively bold and not at all salty?
DDown 4:	Get rid of a line involving 2
DDown 5:	Broadcast regular extracts from the older Miami Vice
DDown 6:	Ganja, valium, sandwich, coffee
DDown 7:	Being woolly, may dread woolgathering
DDown 8:	Heckle comic heartlessly
DDown 13:	Doctor's love for Italian red wine
DDown 15:	Variable quanta? Err with variable, having 4 variables
DDown 16:	Artist drawing one mythological figure
DDown 18:	It's hard losing common services and networks
DDown 19:	Excellent time to work on degree
DDown 19:	Excellent time to work on degree
DDown 22:	Athenian's letter to female regularly filled envelope
DDown 23:	Cell mates making this?
DDown 24:	Brief attraction, wistful sound
DDown 25:	Dictator's court orders luxury!
DDown 27:	Monkey's way of deciding things