The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 5th December 2001

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 5th December 2001. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Embodiment of male reserve gets shot
AAcross 5:	Don't allow us to write in Black Hills state
AAcross 9:	Lettuce's wrinkle? There's much more underneath	TIPOFTHEICEBERG
AAcross 10:	Fairy's sign with pound for shilling
AAcross 11:	Having downed tools, down tools to hit harder
AAcross 12:	Don't stop monarch entertaining another Poe, for example
AAcross 14:	Standard American's a sham
AAcross 15:	Excite love clad in reddish brown
AAcross 16:	Four-letter word causes great problem in public transport
AAcross 18:	Accompaniments of roast turkey on barbershop floor?
AAcross 21:	Graduate's back with another dance
AAcross 22:	Refinery, as it were, in ... in trying to catch ... a lot of fish
AAcross 23:	French town - here lace beer at sergeant's direction
AAcross 24:	Not so many letters from canal builder
DDown 1:	Model way to be unaccompanied in Kipling's story
DDown 2:	Prisoners at play?	CAPTIVEAUDIENCE
DDown 3:	Accompaniment of 6 19, downy like a feather	SOFTLIGHT
DDown 4:	A lout, some say a hoodlum
DDown 4:	A lout, some say a hoodlum
DDown 5:	Insolvent soldier raised to height - very touching!
DDown 5:	Insolvent soldier raised to height - very touching!
DDown 6:	Guardian entry into arranged course
DDown 7:	Flower (river) men settled with pigeons
DDown 8:	Go off and do excavations in the matter of a ship
DDown 13:	Purpose of being taut as reported
DDown 14:	Supporters like this and like greens
DDown 15:	Traitor finds Our Thing leaderless, which takes the biscuit
DDown 17:	Spots setter, one without sense, including the French
DDown 19:	Notes sound on 1 down, say, almost unfit
DDown 20:	Watch fifth change to second seal