The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 24th January 2008

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th January 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Tree obscuring a Calais café	FALSEACACIA
AAcross 9:	Performing women not allowed to interrupt one
AAcross 10:	Anxious type, dumping wife for siren initially, in a comparatively poor state
AAcross 11:	Union post for defence against strikes
AAcross 12:	Funny paper, so vote negatively?
AAcross 13:	Stiff rum without hesitation when in love, as personal protection
AAcross 14:	Conservative club embraces rule which facilitates retraction of what one earlier pounded home!
AAcross 14:	Conservative club embraces rule which facilitates retraction of what one earlier pounded home!
AAcross 16:	Where publicans often are 'canned'?	BEHINDBARS
AAcross 19:	Say nowadays, 'Gosh!'
AAcross 21:	Run out, legs extended by a quarter
AAcross 22:	See 16 Down	PROOFVEST
AAcross 24:	Intoxicant has the drunk taking one look back
AAcross 25:	Stepping out from pear-shaped can in Row G
AAcross 26:	Regulatory nature of the father of parliaments abroad
DDown 1:	Combination of char, maybe, and carpenter bound to make a British institution	FISHANDCHIPSHOP
DDown 2:	Master film director gets Oscar finally
DDown 3:	Look confrontational
DDown 4:	Part of United Kingdom Bill overturned creating legal precedent
DDown 5:	Intellectual brain reduced by 60% in Rye, say?
DDown 6:	Basic physical attraction of beast on barred property?
DDown 7:	Earth-dweller knocking wings off UFO X-cube	FOXCUB
DDown 8:	See 13
DDown 15:	Means of global communication put inside alien
DDown 16:	Garment that could prevent the fatal progress of slugs
DDown 17:	Bass before oxygen-enriched April swims of Arctic and Antarctic regions
DDown 18:	Dancing, hard on the tail of eisteddfod's Welsh location	RHONDDA
DDown 20:	Unidentified male, John, accepts name entered by old-timer
DDown 23:	Play soldier moulds

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