The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 22nd May 2002

There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 22nd May 2002. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Glasses raised at L'Opera
AAcross 10:	Wood is damaged by one
AAcross 11:	The batsman's occupation
AAcross 12:	Man in a mother country (loosely speaking)
AAcross 13:	They curl and lift cubes
AAcross 14:	Irish group playing Bach roles
AAcross 16:	Les canadiens, for example	FRENCHCANADIANS
AAcross 19:	Belt proclaiming a Knight Bachelor
AAcross 21:	Run downhill
AAcross 22:	Where a houseman rules?
AAcross 23:	Fought as law bred free-for-all
AAcross 24:	Subject is: "The Discontented Mule"
AAcross 25:	Investment specialist?
DDown 1:	They charge others, even pets
DDown 2:	I left command to the artillery
DDown 3:	A bread-like fruit
DDown 4:	Some American depositors backed this inventor
DDown 5:	Galloping cancer seen in second birth
DDown 6:	Clergyman Paul, an American hero going to North Dakota
DDown 7:	Spotted in play, its effect is disastrous
DDown 8:	It's a wild year for a cat?
DDown 14:	Game belonging to the past? Nonsense!
DDown 15:	They keep the hose straight
DDown 17:	The line of those in the playground
DDown 18:	Positive kind of zero? On the contrary!
DDown 20:	Landing strip
DDown 21:	A lake not easily ruffled
DDown 22:	Christopher Marlowe's last predator
DDown 23:	Crazy flutters