The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 5th December 2012

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

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Jaunty, emergent person broadcasting
AAcross 9:	See 2
AAcross 10:	Platinum-coated vessel that is said to gain attention on the quiet
AAcross 11:	Nuts queue hours (not OK socially) to catch premiere of major work of 22 across
AAcross 12:	Waste fluid and Sweeney's foot dripping
AAcross 14:	Bucket on TV bulb
AAcross 15:	See 13	INPARIS
AAcross 17:	Setter's just the thing, having polished off ape
AAcross 20:	City, central European situation, tops for perfumery ingredients
AAcross 22:	Dark, sad, very oxygen-enriched creator of 4 26
AAcross 23:	Unfussy as a consumer, Novello's put in one-off threatening surroundings
AAcross 24:	See 21
AAcross 25:	Force out? That's nice
AAcross 26:	See 4
DDown 1:	Scorer managed, in absentia, football team's home success
DDown 2:	Strove in speech with moral excellence for US city
DDown 3:	Has dances confined by eg square dance movement
DDown 4:	Month spent with Dr Werewolf, whence 13 15?	FROMTHE
DDown 5:	Member employed to split the opposition?	SWORDARM
DDown 6:	Ham actor, losing lead, is put off love
DDown 7:	Force Faith to eat hat (just the top)
DDown 13:	1's work could be, say, Warhol at the Louvre?	ANAMERICAN
DDown 16:	Rudimentary travelling to China on back of horse
DDown 18:	Restraints of public transport around one third of the city
DDown 19:	Has to undergo housing shock
DDown 21:	Adder stretch standard from 1
DDown 22:	Lives in blue abandon
DDown 24:	God — soften sound!