The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 8th August 2002

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 8th August 2002. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Realistic show must be awful crap to amuse (they say) the awful cast
AAcross 6:	See 1
AAcross 10:	Sign of opposition to Tory big guns?
AAcross 11:	Senior citizens' concession returned, all with book of 1 6	OLDPOSSUM
AAcross 12:	Crime needs time and cause
AAcross 13:	Progressing along lines?	INTRAIN
AAcross 14:	Opening of epic play - what can hold a note in song, if historic	ARMSANDTHEMAN
AAcross 17:	Antique cover - one managed to survive into last century
AAcross 21:	Cover sheltering most of circus was fatal to Samson
AAcross 22:	State backing for Irish imprisoned by Hitler
AAcross 24:	Tenure terminable by bullets blasting holes in it?
AAcross 25:	Dominant, the leading note of the conductor?	SOLTI
AAcross 26:	In and out of season?
AAcross 27:	Girl playing Mary in religious body	SALLYARMY
DDown 1:	With loads of room for the "i" in "semivowel"
DDown 2:	Essential for lamb learning to walk
DDown 3:	Slides that can't be hidden?
DDown 4:	Many outside Tyneside should be hit on the head
DDown 5:	Having had some lager - dead drunk at the start - his problem?
DDown 7:	Sailor drunk retsina, which I wouldn't do
DDown 8:	Crime is up when you get cash without energy
DDown 9:	With scorn I leave police: you mustn't worry
DDown 15:	Mother's sovereign keeping one from Channel Island is partisan
DDown 16:	Absentee of 1 6 makes a hole under mountain	MACAVITY
DDown 18:	No fishing possible with such a financial result?	NETLOSS
DDown 19:	I don't believe in God's last entry into new life
DDown 20:	House the French talk about
DDown 23:	I don't do much that is of not so much use