The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 5th January 2012

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 5th January 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Drink initially advertised in newspaper
AAcross 9:	Angry whistle-blower meets union leader in Israel
AAcross 10:	Country girl briefly eating duck
AAcross 11:	Turn to people in charge in eastern state promoting religious unity
AAcross 12:	Discontented apple picker, second of two in set play
AAcross 14:	Final day before tuna cooked by lake
AAcross 15:	Leaves from part of jetty found in different clue
AAcross 17:	Alcohol has another reeling one side to the other
AAcross 20:	Top biofuel isn't a sort of petrol
AAcross 22:	Attack drinking song taking off women
AAcross 23:	Hot stuff leading to blues in 2
AAcross 24:	Sword giving enemy cut to one leg
AAcross 25:	Something left back in empty cage by lion?
AAcross 26:	I'll shortly read up about number available for hard labour
DDown 1:	Jargon at bar where head of government drinks in general
DDown 2:	Love in the sun, upshot engagement
DDown 3:	Male going Intercity, thus limping along?
DDown 4:	Plants tree in grounds
DDown 5:	Bill has feet repositioned in safety device
DDown 5:	Bill has feet repositioned in safety device
DDown 6:	Monsters on the loose as teal vanish?
DDown 7:	Liberal American with alias in foreign capital
DDown 13:	Retreat from Rhode Island Walt Whitman originally had arranged
DDown 16:	Radical vehicle young man left outside Number Ten
DDown 18:	First dole payment turned up last, not first
DDown 19:	Lord Byron piece's extended measure, by the sound of things
DDown 21:	Paint girl and boy
DDown 22:	Go up the wall? Somehow is able to do the opposite
DDown 24:	Gross infringement