The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 18th December 2001

There are 17 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 18th December 2001. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Choreographer's position in the company	CRANKO
AAcross 4:	Sidearms
AAcross 9:	Mosaic entrance passage at 13	BARMIZVAH
AAcross 10:	Beg the question in a vacuum
AAcross 11:	Here comes the bride for a man with capital
AAcross 12:	Coolness of dodgy gas fire done out of energy twice
AAcross 12:	Coolness of dodgy gas fire done out of energy twice
AAcross 13:	Herein Radames, caught by his god, returning to a pastoral idyll
AAcross 15:	A contentious issue from the continent
AAcross 17:	A ghost on losing direction
AAcross 19:	Smooth character motivating the rest of the children
AAcross 22:	Ideal place for society to suspend rail travelling
AAcross 24:	Jab from the weapon of El Cid?
AAcross 26:	Combination of sex with marriage
AAcross 27:	Flush to the heads of Conservative matrons?	BLUERINSE
AAcross 28:	Salt beef on the hoof with wings
AAcross 29:	Seduced by a French fellow. Ecstasy!
DDown 1:	Welsh water taxi's introducing hidden depths here
DDown 2:	How Polonius was covered in embarrassment
DDown 3:	Anchor, getting out of fine mess and into predicament
DDown 4:	A more pretentious homonym? One can't say
DDown 5:	Duncan's killer seen hanging by the neck
DDown 6:	Coinage in some lingo or other
DDown 7:	Affected foreign aid from the French department
DDown 8:	A match for "Thus Spake Zoroaster"
DDown 14:	Norma's invocation: give the role to a Joan Sutherland?	CASTADIVA
DDown 16:	Supreme Court's inner sanctum initially had disturbance
DDown 18:	One "to kick against the pricks"? Let him bleed a little
DDown 19:	American eye has failed to sum up
DDown 20:	Two presents not present
DDown 21:	Buy sardines with it? Use cod fillets!
DDown 23:	Source of Columbus's sail
DDown 25:	Don't let the little woman play it!