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The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 23rd December 2004
There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 23rd December 2004. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Is quoted backwards about being non-specifically religious
AAcross 5: Battered hat with blemish at a funny angle
AAcross 9: Imaginarily innocent period?
AAcross 10: Kingsley's playing for sacerdotal approbation
AAcross 11: Ceremonial soldier's electronic exploit in the drink
AAcross 12: Not initially sad about Cuban export
AAcross 13: Bar's to bar drunken poets
AAcross 15: Flower absorbing source of metallic element
AAcross 17: Meet incongruously, in reversed roles, with local guideSTREETMAP
AAcross 19: Apple, or purveyor thereof to teacher?
AAcross 22: Anomalous accent in which first letter's dropped
AAcross 23: I had earmarked the lady, as a Londoner might say, for cover
AAcross 25: Suddenly meet dog eating duck's head
AAcross 26: Time to ban recycled music in shops, say
AAcross 27: Emerging with a whiff of sodium?
AAcross 28: Sign points to sorceress's residence
DDown 1: Dead river, or the merest trickle
DDown 2: Modify or pass on disease across line
DDown 3: Wound up finding one score halved and another gutted
DDown 4: Old garment adopted by government leader after call from Moss, say
DDown 5: Honour accorded to a king supplies cautionary signal
DDown 6: Like running water, perhaps, left by snake as a gesture of friendship?
DDown 7: American bum, say, with top-notch African weapon
DDown 8: Grass production reportedly preserved spiritTINDRUM
DDown 14: Tripe eater dropping a faulty 3
DDown 16: Deny getting help to go up in estimation
DDown 17: Antichristian breed embraced by Spanish saint
DDown 18: Gun turned on North American star
DDown 20: The support one received as an innovator
DDown 21: Woman following deduction cracks solutionLYNETTE
DDown 23: Spain's opening fixture
DDown 24: Furious at being born in mid-assault