The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 24th February 2005

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th February 2005. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	In keeping ammunition at a Catholic house, lapse is universal and very bad (7 23,supposedly)	IAMMONARCHOFALL
AAcross 9:	Model princess left with farewell that can be destructive
AAcross 10:	Francis, the writer, a man about town? On the contrary
AAcross 11:	Buggy, perhaps, used for film returned: put cat in it
AAcross 12:	Trouble with rent that could be destructive
AAcross 13:	Come to call with drug
AAcross 14:	See 1	ISURVEY
AAcross 17:	Is hesitantly returning what's owed - this is left
AAcross 19:	Source of wool for king and wood for spacecraft
AAcross 22:	A star turn in a doctor to be a maintainer of air purity	GASTRAP
AAcross 24:	Drier for the 'ead?
AAcross 25:	Doom-laden alternative to oil as possible fuel
AAcross 26:	A place for treatment where there's no dip
AAcross 28:	Jones found in a single shot	INIGO
AAcross 29:	Set up something for women?
AAcross 30:	A striking affair, not petit mal or rubella?	ENGLISHSICKNESS
DDown 1:	Imprisoned without supporting proof, receiving sentence at the eleventh hour
DDown 2:	Centre died in obscurity
DDown 3:	Russian novel died - see doctor at 5	OBLOMOV
DDown 4:	Companion enters grain store, most of it in chaos
DDown 5:	City street in comfort
DDown 6:	Where NHS staff are making progress
DDown 7:	Laker's index - Laker employed one who went solo
DDown 8:	Corruptly reduce one's chances of losing money?
DDown 15:	Depriving of complacency with exalted music for words
DDown 16:	Priest in the limelight repeatedly	ELI
DDown 18:	Time for the Eastern sun
DDown 20:	Criminals? If so, I am in trouble
DDown 21:	Explorer with a girl he deceived
DDown 22:	Jersey etc under weight, according to Marxist writer	GRAMSCI
DDown 23:	See 7
DDown 27:	Intelligence and energy are ineffective	NOUSE