The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 2nd January 2003

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 2nd January 2003. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Retired doctor introducing new deal to asylum
AAcross 4:	Yarn to baffle a lawyer
AAcross 9:	Bear losing head in wreckage
AAcross 10:	A large drink sounds deep
AAcross 11:	Cleave stick
AAcross 12:	Tom has to order a little bull for sacrifice
AAcross 13:	Term for a model poet
AAcross 15:	Foul row
AAcross 16:	Relish something painful
AAcross 17:	Six-footer takes test in three parts
AAcross 21:	Donor with top credit rating?
AAcross 22:	He trod the boards formerly in Lancashire	OLDHAM
AAcross 24:	Cops nearly failed through not keeping awake
AAcross 25:	William Booth took part in 17
AAcross 26:	They troubled Macmillan and Steven
AAcross 27:	He was known for an old windbag
DDown 1:	A stone overweight?
DDown 2:	Finished with church, we hear - will he ever learn?
DDown 3:	Direct speech
DDown 5:	Time has a round face
DDown 6:	Determine a right to piecework?
DDown 7:	Mask (hay fever?)
DDown 8:	Presidential intelligence at work?	BUSHTELEGRAPH
DDown 14:	Hitler's first cat cavorting with mouse under his very nose
DDown 16:	Danger point when it explodes
DDown 18:	A refusal with little force can be soothing
DDown 19:	Times review of an old theologian
DDown 20:	Dim idiot, about 49
DDown 23:	Doctor gives patients exercise