The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 15th December 2004

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 15th December 2004. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Article about imitation bed covering
AAcross 4:	Shake a plant
AAcross 9:	Stone causing the French river to flow backwards
AAcross 10:	Troubleshooters making disturbances on university campuses	RIOTSQUADS
AAcross 11:	Drink providing energy on the way in
AAcross 12:	It makes it easier for the traveller to let someone have wine
AAcross 13:	Share in vegetable patch
AAcross 15:	Infection occurring in the first year
AAcross 16:	Sway to music
AAcross 17:	He tends to follow girl with past
AAcross 21:	Old catapult tip found in Welsh lake
AAcross 22:	Directions for making one crepe mixture
AAcross 24:	Quietly angry with standard shown by Captain Hook?
AAcross 25:	Something one has to have
AAcross 26:	Not liable to be a flower politician takes to first
AAcross 27:	Offensive to see how party rejected evidence of debts
DDown 1:	Money from a mine in California
DDown 2:	Material many longshoremen pick up
DDown 3:	Act as Queen for the afternoon out
DDown 5:	Tax a ship by letter
DDown 6:	The first drink boy takes as a bandsman
DDown 7:	Finish with awfully sore back
DDown 8:	Partner in a position to be agreeable
DDown 14:	Twisted coils formerly used for swing
DDown 16:	Accomplish ambition to learn
DDown 18:	Rummaged about for a long time in car
DDown 19:	Speak of former journalists
DDown 20:	Dozy snake takes shelter
DDown 23:	Part of poem about Antony leaving New York