The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 22nd May 2012

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 22nd May 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Era primarily old, life without iron, not quite Neanderthal — was it?
AAcross 9:	County where soldier's on edge	ANTRIM
AAcross 10:	Throw back first bits of trash into my old skip
AAcross 11:	Loudly complain, rep plonked contents here?
AAcross 12:	A sign about double parking in Middle Eastern city
AAcross 14:	Ideas set out in part of the metropolis
AAcross 14:	Ideas set out in part of the metropolis
AAcross 15:	Like base about which sort of gas rises
AAcross 17:	3's fix with dance champion
AAcross 20:	A stroke of genius: staff heard of sound!
AAcross 22:	Writer gets to attempt creative writing
AAcross 23:	3's alternative
AAcross 24:	Smack for party
AAcross 25:	3's fury about genders understandable, ultimately	IMFREE
AAcross 26:	3's music, bag of tricks?	MAGICBUS
DDown 1:	See 4	FORMILES
DDown 2:	Coin that's fragrant
DDown 3:	Group's unlimited character to hack into?	THEWHO
DDown 4:	3's normal fees I foolishly invested in sweets	ICANSEE
DDown 5:	More than one flower exists either way beneath upturned bush with no berry?
DDown 6:	Useful flipping herb, pointless when trimmed round it
DDown 7:	See 17
DDown 13:	Victim stabbed by the blinking thing earlier
DDown 16:	Described like the Three Blind Mice?
DDown 18:	Caper and egg plant
DDown 19:	"Nasty" about right for "lovely"!
DDown 21:	Rotten cold before game
DDown 22:	Extraction of principled gentlemen's agreement
DDown 24:	Second ago