The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 16th December 2010

There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 16th December 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	In Rome half a dozen beg for it
AAcross 10:	Who in France blocked old record supply?
AAcross 11:	This country drops euro? It never had it
AAcross 12:	Tense French pal cuts his tipple with retinol, say
AAcross 13:	Going grey, coping without husband
AAcross 14:	In the raw, French cut their tipple with it, they say
AAcross 16:	Roasting cola nut cracked - it's very well done
AAcross 19:	Nazi police arrested French poet after tip off, firing these?	SMALLARMS
AAcross 21:	Access to broadcast fight preliminaries	WAYIN
AAcross 22:	A radio-telephony code's broken, 1930s-style
AAcross 23:	In neural network, variable gap going over between two points
AAcross 24:	A short distance during, say, round?
AAcross 25:	Exotic woman's probing survey taking in hotel
DDown 1:	Promises dashed in University College, fools around
DDown 2:	Putting effort into somehow shoring up two rivers
DDown 3:	Time bound
DDown 4:	Information on everyone's origin
DDown 5:	Test the foreign fizzy Seven Up left in
DDown 6:	Jacques remained outside and persevered	KEPTATIT
DDown 7:	Time when adder appears?
DDown 8:	Clear "The Duck & Swan"
DDown 14:	Illicit drinking time that did for our fathers?
DDown 15:	Financial backer doesn't win without City
DDown 17:	No longer worried about woman wearing hat
DDown 18:	Is Coe simply wasting energy foolishly on them?
DDown 20:	Time to erect new joint nearly
DDown 21:	Water's taken in for a time
DDown 22:	Seafood's special gastronomic ingredient
DDown 23:	Fire fighter in 11 company's discharged