The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 22nd August 2002

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 22nd August 2002. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Crew in a fight, possibly giving employment in the Blitz
AAcross 8:	Tiny lad cast in stone? That's the best one can hope for
AAcross 9:	Goddess using force to feed animals
AAcross 11:	English woods producing fiddlesticks!
AAcross 12:	A stein brought round after the last of the summer wine
AAcross 13:	To take a king away, duke must also be carried
AAcross 14:	Ready for war in pits?
AAcross 14:	Ready for war in pits?
AAcross 16:	Conductor and professor wouldn''t stop talking	RATTLEDON
AAcross 19:	A light neither fore nor aft
AAcross 21:	Profane love at one remove
AAcross 23:	Four or six in rehearsal? That's not important
AAcross 24:	Engaged in daring activities, like bonsai?
AAcross 25:	Like Sappho, born in an isle abroad
AAcross 26:	Trees oft hewn in Hants?	THENEWFOREST
DDown 1:	Most suitable match for survivors?
DDown 2:	Poet having the edge when it comes to speed of transmission
DDown 3:	A dog that's large, beginning to fill house, gets turned out
DDown 4:	In Versailles you stick up for the royal family
DDown 5:	Writing concealed by heart-rending creature in a cage
DDown 6:	Like a professor in the cinema, but more so? Teachers bank on it
DDown 7:	What resurrectionists do about Queen Margaret's last poet
DDown 10:	Getting together again - like outside, like inside
DDown 15:	Verdi's fourth opera about an upstanding sculptor
DDown 17:	Spooner's low bit is over the top
DDown 18:	Pressurised nitrogen stored under shed	LEANTON
DDown 19:	A paper product in dispute	ATISSUE
DDown 20:	No democrat wants one's title changed
DDown 22:	Provide for party in various ways, as does the sparrow or the crow