The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 25th July 2019

There are 13 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 25th July 2019. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Presently, sleazeball has love for sweetheart
AAcross 10:	Divine fluid Christian initially snubbed, Church claimed
AAcross 11:	Understanding English, nothing missing from notes?
AAcross 12:	See 23
AAcross 13:	Short stretch of shorter sentence
AAcross 14:	Instrument reading as if in Arabic, rub out answer?
AAcross 16:	A fraction high?	ONEOVERTHEEIGHT
AAcross 19:	Retaining information, test is provided with content
AAcross 21:	Still very popular, Italian runner's hurdling
AAcross 22:	Forward march, alas, omitted, some going backwards	MOSALAH
AAcross 23:	A final piece of wallpaper, endless rolls around next to Mark, he finished off layer upon layer
AAcross 24:	Refuse kick up the backside by leader in nappies
AAcross 25:	See 4	OFTHRONES
DDown 1:	Shocking cost in bombs, one way or another?
DDown 2:	White bird in alcohol, less cold
DDown 3:	Bind private parts for Reading resident, say
DDown 4:	Original theme song for a fantasy drama
DDown 5:	With hairy part for all to see, the majority longed to conceal it
DDown 6:	Queen finally seen off after struggle, as was Marie Antoinette
DDown 7:	In audition, character does well	OHDEAR
DDown 8:	Blade struck four Samurai warriors, all down below
DDown 14:	Ahead in first half of game, short moves saving time	STRAIGHTON
DDown 15:	Still dark, it's blocked up
DDown 17:	Jelly kept in a row of vessels?
DDown 18:	Complaining, horse in horse sandwiches?
DDown 20:	Paper lies, might you say?
DDown 21:	Piddling in crack, intimate at first
DDown 22:	Forget a title
DDown 22:	Forget a title
DDown 23:	Clever cricket shot over point