The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 8th December 2009

There are 17 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 8th December 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Withdrawal from meeting about Ecuador
AAcross 6:	Figure dropping hot box, perhaps
AAcross 8:	Supposed spitter has trouble backing plant
AAcross 9:	Young girl, gripping one hand as difficult parting
AAcross 10:	Relative is irrelevant to discussion (once removed)
AAcross 11:	A shade off colour writing in French a Latin term
AAcross 12:	Exact Page Three rule rejected	SPOTON
AAcross 15:	Chump steak, perhaps, served with loaf
AAcross 16:	Like brothers, getting on in gum tree
AAcross 19:	Chap loading bullet, ultimately an assassin
AAcross 19:	Chap loading bullet, ultimately an assassin
AAcross 21:	Alsace girl learning to conserve water
AAcross 22:	See 10
AAcross 24:	Member of crew returns to book finally, having to revise
AAcross 25:	Everything in America Whitehall echoed — an abomination!	THEWHOLE
AAcross 26:	Man on street in winter month needing retrieval after puncture, calling for AA?
AAcross 27:	Plant given shower east of Bordeaux, say
DDown 1:	Husband hugs husband, as men regularly do?
DDown 2:	Smoke emerging from champion in bed
DDown 3:	United then top
DDown 4:	Poetic movement, where one little publication is minute
DDown 5:	Sudden announcement, as the latest figures initially taken in cut
DDown 6:	Inlet cut into feature above lip	THEWASH
DDown 7:	See 25
DDown 13:	Page 100 in "Othello" amended for the current producer
DDown 14:	Pedant, one stealing mine from Spooner?
DDown 17:	JFK, perhaps, bearing left
DDown 18:	See 26
DDown 20:	Molest a little higher?
DDown 20:	Molest a little higher?
DDown 22:	Island needing con to be real?
DDown 23:	Sloth offering some squirrel dinner, as sloth sleeps?