The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 24th August 2010

There are 15 across clues and 19 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 24th August 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	A crew carrying cross for 24 down?
AAcross 10:	Service offering visa to cover island capital
AAcross 11:	Spinner's maiden restricting single shows fibre
AAcross 12:	Being English, two figures face to face with church
AAcross 13:	Something funny, perhaps, about wood — so put it on here?
AAcross 14:	Lane hogged by drunk: he's all on his own
AAcross 17:	Some coppers (old Italian)
AAcross 19:	Arrange group
AAcross 20:	Valid claim
AAcross 21:	Drop into open dish (no lid) a type of pasta
AAcross 22:	Loud speaker essential to 18 2
AAcross 24:	One proving superior bringing about reprieval
AAcross 26:	Hearts 18 2
AAcross 28:	See 8
AAcross 29:	Painting showing stock passing backwards through entrance to field
DDown 1:	See 10
DDown 1:	See 10
DDown 2:	See 18
DDown 3:	Very exciting, filthy habit
DDown 4:	Pickled head on stick
DDown 5:	Solution of nitrates present for a boy?
DDown 6:	Show contempt for doppelganger
DDown 7:	Punishment making you smart?
DDown 8:	Flag when down, then fade
DDown 13:	Bottom rock needing bottom wiped
DDown 15:	Sweeping clears gale away
DDown 16:	Leaving seconds, sample vegetable
DDown 18:	Improper, or not essential, to take heed	LISTENTO
DDown 19:	Pretty little individual wearing underwear, hot
DDown 22:	Snack, small, slightly stale beefcake?
DDown 23:	Pompous bore with dull routine sent up
DDown 24:	Poet finds novelist burying his head
DDown 25:	Open road superior to rail
DDown 27:	Crossword setter dropped