The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 9th August 2002

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 9th August 2002. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Game F1 driver
AAcross 4:	Encouraging remark made by Hannibal initially in Carthaginian retreat
AAcross 9:	Opposed to sloth around midwinter
AAcross 10:	Flexible ape or rigid rodent
AAcross 11:	Contribute by givin' up?
AAcross 12:	Regular issue and good service
AAcross 13:	A singer can use the arrangement
AAcross 15:	Use gentle persuasion - providing drinks, by the sound of it
AAcross 16:	What attracts bishop? Getting introduction to actress with sex appeal?
AAcross 17:	Arctic prison for Spooner's dance
AAcross 21:	Head may be head of fox or antelope
AAcross 22:	Precision in Germanic etymology
AAcross 24:	Discombobulated acid-head means to join cast
AAcross 25:	Wise men from Michigan collecting silver
AAcross 26:	Bent back in response to stimulus
AAcross 27:	On the borders of Zimbabwe there's many a fanatic
DDown 1:	Pinter play set on top of hill in Cumbria	PENRITH
DDown 2:	Living like a bat out of hell?
DDown 3:	Stretch or break up in river
DDown 5:	He made the bloody discovery before Wallbanger
DDown 6:	A physicist and his Nobel work on source of radiation
DDown 7:	Rara avis in Arizona?
DDown 8:	Film about alien in naval vessel that's out of action	WATERSHIPDOWN
DDown 14:	Stage direction sounds bad	NOISESOFF
DDown 16:	Monk getting Russian leader into trouble?
DDown 18:	Old photograph of tiny pet, perhaps
DDown 19:	Strait-laced university professor first getting drunk
DDown 20:	Indian putting hand on knee (not head)
DDown 23:	Beast found in Cornish river