The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 18th December 2002

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 18th December 2002. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Boxin' 'owdydo has a pantomime character
AAcross 9:	Unsettled air plus rebellion
AAcross 10:	Alexander's place for fellow on the staff
AAcross 11:	How many peers should be? Solve clue 10, taking notes
AAcross 12:	The first two hundred painters are capital
AAcross 13:	Is common sense un-American?
AAcross 14:	*Gunner (Royal Artillery) deployed around Channel Islands	GRECIANURN
AAcross 16:	*Fruit for dog, say
AAcross 19:	Feeble devil chasing his tail
AAcross 21:	An agreement taking English as part of Current Affairs?
AAcross 22:	Workers left out of joke
AAcross 24:	Hole for gold provided diamonds
AAcross 25:	Check the flow: it must be reliable
AAcross 26:	*It was spent by King Lear
DDown 1:	Laureate for ever? It can't be done
DDown 2:	Elizabethan writer from first to last beyond the pale?	NASHE
DDown 3:	The case of the canonised queen coming after the break
DDown 4:	Read up about crazy individual that's unsettled
DDown 5:	Sorry to get 24 hours off?
DDown 6:	Ken (not the present one) appears odd during change of name with accolade	OLDACQUAINTANCE
DDown 7:	*Detail relative to keep inside
DDown 8:	No use having a home for peacocks?
DDown 15:	Born student embraced by monarch is doing homage
DDown 16:	Catty remark about a party in a field
DDown 17:	Bearer of sword and its handle is about to live quietly	HIPBELT
DDown 18:	Affair where one is embraced by a celebrity
DDown 20:	*Subject of analysis
DDown 23:	Lizard makes Portuguese explorer lose his head