The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 11th December 2003

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 11th December 2003. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	See 8	THEBOGEYMAN
AAcross 9:	Follow the 'ounds with compassion; is that wrong?
AAcross 10:	About time some Muslim backed American pressure on Japanese
AAcross 11:	She hung, she swung, 'e went to pieces on the floor
AAcross 12:	For a noted fair sight, they say, book that dame, Diana	BRIGG
AAcross 13:	No order for unordered currency
AAcross 14:	They measure the drops in, eg, a sugar solution	RAINGAUGES
AAcross 16:	Dearth of French leaves French opera externalised in Wales	CARMARTHEN
AAcross 19:	Lowers stock of the hoi polloi
AAcross 21:	Heroine of Berlin and Vienna not very bothered	ANNIE
AAcross 22:	Speed unheard of in such waters?
AAcross 24:	Sol Campbell on the bench? Get away with you!
AAcross 25:	RIP, for example, bound to recall memory
AAcross 26:	So the Germans might curse two of their 17 7s	SCHWEINHUND
DDown 1:	Left first and third characters from "Count Dracula's Sin", failing as a play	TITUSANDRONICUS
DDown 2:	Could be due from old sweat
DDown 3:	She drowned up river; he raised flag	OPHELIA
DDown 4:	But did he sculpt the Beatles?
DDown 5:	Vessel taking lettuce, they say, to and from Kos?
DDown 5:	Vessel taking lettuce, they say, to and from Kos?
DDown 6:	Didn't speculate? Evidently, no div! Then get run out	NOTHINGVENTURED
DDown 7:	Watch maintained by the Countryside Alliance?
DDown 8:	"What gives me a funny turn outside Wolfson's concern? The loo!" (12s)
DDown 15:	Choose one or the other? No! Tho' almost behave badly	HAVEBOTH
DDown 16:	Growling growler driver? That's about right!
DDown 17:	8's collar could be let out
DDown 18:	Electron bound to arouse notice in Times? Quite the reverse
DDown 20:	Old bird of Mauritius with mother in Tanzania
DDown 23:	Second farewell to the Spanish ladies