The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 17th April 2002

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 17th April 2002. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Number of singers about fifty
AAcross 5:	From orphan to mother - that's the spirit!
AAcross 9:	Ecclesiastical title getting high honour is poison
AAcross 10:	Exclusive physicist in water needs waterproof
AAcross 11:	Male has trouble with note about female model in first boat	HEADOFTHERIVER
AAcross 13:	Love is painful when wrongly directed
AAcross 14:	Conclusive instructors of actors in film	LASTRADA
AAcross 17:	Shrub with 6 and "I say, a moving grove"
AAcross 18:	Tick over - no good?
AAcross 21:	Union negotiator puts down indicator about one in fury with comrade
AAcross 23:	Old tiara bought initially off the back of a lorry
AAcross 24:	Comment of stable relationship among those next door?
AAcross 25:	Harlot has gold - which is in character? Not quite
AAcross 26:	Theme that has to be mastered
DDown 1:	Look out from hiding-place?
DDown 2:	Gunner with a stripe provides a cobbler with a minder	LANCEBOMBARDIER
DDown 3:	Cure for extreme dyslexia
DDown 4:	Don't punish the French gentleman
DDown 5:	Role call: solution, fiery exit line
DDown 6:	Promptitude, city style, to embrace the right
DDown 7:	It isn't given to us, they say: leave wooden bits out	TOLOVEANDBEWISE
DDown 8:	One delving below the surface without fear - a psychologist?
DDown 12:	The big guns of rock
DDown 15:	Flighty creature finds berries on the willow
DDown 16:	Bellowed, kind of sneezed, and whistled (Alice): to urge boat to move	OUTGRABE
DDown 19:	Homes for bloke in rising water
DDown 20:	Associate goblin with aristocrat
DDown 22:	See 5