The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 4th May 2005

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 4th May 2005. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Erring ringer with half tale extending beyond biography
AAcross 9:	Dog did more than bark at little old coin
AAcross 10:	Tortoise makes exam turn to party
AAcross 11:	Venetian painter's 21
AAcross 12:	Series of games not brilliant, being often showered on	RUBBERMAT
AAcross 13:	Ring time? It's a celebration for Stephen
AAcross 14:	The proverbial shooter
AAcross 15:	Russian general with the French resting place	LEBED
AAcross 17:	Novelist from America entering the abused NHS when sick	SUSANHILL
AAcross 20:	Sound horn at hospital entry, thus setter is to be relished?
AAcross 22:	21 for refuse collector on leave
AAcross 23:	Weary feeling causes primate to inhale oxygen
AAcross 24:	Where Caesar beat Pompey, thus grabbing a bit more writing	THAPSUS
AAcross 25:	Add one to my church number before the operation
DDown 1:	Wodehouse's 22's autobiography, a bit at a time
DDown 2:	Punishment about a cab I left on which I should be paid	ROADTAX
DDown 3:	Get tanned via the web - modern way
DDown 4:	Trade union going leftward as instructed
DDown 5:	Encouragement to strike raised in case of a trifle
DDown 6:	Yarn from Innisfree?
DDown 7:	Perplex and deceive, accepting endless cry of surprise
DDown 8:	"No music", you tell the mess with haughty scorn
DDown 14:	Day consumption - some red roses in the Alps
DDown 16:	Made 1 across and dynamited?
DDown 17:	Firm insured for being cleaned too harshly?
DDown 18:	I doubt if an austere person would go topless and embrace the piano
DDown 19:	I produced absurdities, as 1 1 = 3/7ths of 17 down
DDown 21:	Audience of aristocrats in stockings