The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 21st January 2005

There are 17 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 21st January 2005. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Make tears in a lithium-carbon synthetic fibre
AAcross 5:	Most ports are unlike, say, scotch on the rocks
AAcross 10:	No head for heights: held by John Bird to be an elusive type
AAcross 11:	Ridiculing bad Monroe play
AAcross 12:	Country house fruit good for nothing
AAcross 13:	See 10	OLANTERN
AAcross 14:	Venetian team's weak point
AAcross 14:	Venetian team's weak point
AAcross 16:	One's involved in one-to-one, showing the female side of man
AAcross 17:	"House Detectives" episode starts after "Bloody Groups"
AAcross 19:	Luxembourg sovereign relative to two old pence and United Kingdom piece of eight
AAcross 23:	Singers Joy and Mace
AAcross 24:	Man enters: cat's out of the bag
AAcross 26:	Sky region's broadcast poison in this place
AAcross 27:	Card player wearing check waistcoat
AAcross 28:	Inclined to swear, making for cooler atmosphere finally
AAcross 29:	Maybe gas company's "ineffectualness" fine is dropped
DDown 2:	Film director is leaving white wine (imbibing half of rose)	CHABROL
DDown 3:	North American flower that's disgusting being worn
DDown 4:	Not feeling good about Humberside's misfortunes
DDown 6:	Like music sung in French - or Albanian?
DDown 7:	Nicely adjusted penalty imposed on Melody on date	FINETUNED
DDown 8:	A murder involved an organic membrane
DDown 9:	Old Prime beans jumping - they can't be weighed
DDown 15:	Gave a positive sign in bad taste and slept	NODDEDOFF
DDown 18:	Number following rise of Labour PM
DDown 20:	Ann, having broken with sect, is getting a life
DDown 21:	Darkness etc constrains parliament
DDown 22:	A high speed working delegate's badge?
DDown 25:	Quibble about Smith's pointless block