The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 1st December 2011

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 1st December 2011. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	See 7
AAcross 9:	Previously ending in disaster, a foreign market here?
AAcross 10:	Party time, charge around
AAcross 11:	Little national insurance in advance, as ancient
AAcross 12:	River filling drier gardening tool
AAcross 14:	Asian controlled borders for European
AAcross 15:	See 3
AAcross 17:	See 2
AAcross 20:	Strain something to contend with, keeping solver's end up
AAcross 22:	Bird's fifty goals scored?
AAcross 23:	A bird cutting dead duck's head went this way, then that?
AAcross 24:	Queens here losing ground before gain
AAcross 25:	Hybrid and lakeside plant
AAcross 26:	See 6
DDown 1:	Spectacular ego, heart lost in the system
DDown 2:	Bank, say, most efficient at breaking out in depravity
DDown 3:	Worryingly precarious thing to package — Cameron's party pessimistic about it
DDown 4:	Leaves cold?
DDown 5:	Sweet singer turning up to plug rubbish — this is flat
DDown 6:	Fixed terms not concerning this 2 17	MORNINGTON
DDown 7:	Unstable state incapable, requiring urban development
DDown 13:	Those providing shelter from bats nipping unruly beard
DDown 16:	Steep incline, nearly always downhill for starters, horse on the outside
DDown 18:	Oxygen and another gas, oxygen and another gas, energy individually matched
DDown 19:	See 4
DDown 21:	See 24 across
DDown 22:	See 25
DDown 24:	Lap speed