The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 25th May 2005

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 25th May 2005. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Arrive earlier, like blood entering head
AAcross 5:	Salt provides great modern art
AAcross 10:	Top 29 cross
AAcross 11:	Floor scheme crushed - not entirely flat surface
AAcross 12:	Most inadequate, large ball bearing?
AAcross 13:	A thousand never 26 - they trying to be clever?	KNOWALLS
AAcross 14:	Sting, for example, animal, then girl, then me
AAcross 16:	Painful to grasp a hundred and twenty
AAcross 17:	Promiscuous monk, you say? Don't trust him
AAcross 19:	Outlaw having to cheat in anything but poetry
AAcross 23:	Tubes carrying a river through French city to Italy
AAcross 24:	Tone down fit of rage
AAcross 26:	Someone beautiful in face, in parts
AAcross 27:	Imminent knocking back of hard liquor
AAcross 28:	Blood bath, though horse protected?
AAcross 29:	Gorilla seen with a crook?
DDown 2:	Bond hit the booze
DDown 3:	All fingers and thumbs in Paris - that is, the South
DDown 4:	Reportedly giant contract
DDown 6:	See 17
DDown 7:	Entertainer that's appreciated pranced around
DDown 8:	Advertising vehicle?
DDown 9:	Never licked 23?
DDown 15:	How long might she be expecting, say, having turned up at Victoria?
DDown 18:	Aaron Copland's first composition involves one instrument
DDown 20:	One paying bill for immigrant?
DDown 21:	Hangover resulting from heavy drinking	BEERGUT
DDown 22:	Playing the jester is Jack's first and only card
DDown 25:	Perhaps beat up and down, up and down