The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 9th December 2004

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 9th December 2004. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	The smart money, not much of it in the county, isn't taking the risk	CHICKENSOUT
AAcross 9:	West's turned it to a Dream part - your first?
AAcross 10:	Complaint of West Side girl about US city
AAcross 11:	Writer goes first to the forest
AAcross 12:	Coming up in Rome,3 and 6	TREVI
AAcross 13:	Not a member in sight? Well I'm blessed!
AAcross 14:	Seamen worry airmen twice with energy and tender loving care
AAcross 16:	Utility as concern of urology?
AAcross 19:	See 13
AAcross 21:	Fish for bird
AAcross 22:	Constrained to go to bed with Gila monster
AAcross 24:	Talk of genuine computer system the high point of the island	TROODOS
AAcross 25:	The whole lot? Far from it	NOTABIT
AAcross 26:	Mobile parts of traditional sermon	TEXTMESSAGE
DDown 1:	1 across should do so, with disastrous consequences?	COMEHOMETOROOST
DDown 2:	West's out of season, getting put into a hole
DDown 3:	Surgery for the listener?
DDown 4:	Roving detectives take a day to turn up
DDown 5:	Paint with quality sharpener
DDown 6:	Slab, board, list? It ends in a square	THREETIMESTABLE
DDown 7:	A fabric as you like?
DDown 8:	See 14
DDown 15:	Sound beast carrying rubbish carrier
DDown 16:	Deer - tha'sh a shame!
DDown 17:	Marsupial to work with large amount
DDown 18:	Vegetable with no date's a date ...
DDown 20:	... on which the home counties are composed
DDown 23:	A drop on the way to the drain, say