The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 11th October 2005

There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 11th October 2005. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Sting providing strain on piano
AAcross 10:	A reactionary former Director-General wearing short skirt, bearing essential part
AAcross 11:	Drunk accepts beer (not a scene worth looking at)
AAcross 12:	Taking issue with shares figures?
AAcross 13:	Continuation, we learn, to be disrupted
AAcross 15:	Bomb vessel amid warning, of course
AAcross 17:	To appear servile in civil war, Cavaliers effecting volte-face
AAcross 18:	Drink a drop shortly
AAcross 20:	Volunteer converting to republicanism?
AAcross 22:	Old man with illusion, blessed snake charmer?
AAcross 25:	See 31
AAcross 26:	Audibly chuck, given pain
AAcross 27:	Conquistador's victim, black among white, helpless
AAcross 30:	It's essential to stop saying "Holiday? Get away!"
AAcross 31:	To get Linford Christie's kit off, cheat!	PULLA
DDown 1:	Work without discharge?
DDown 2:	Capitals of Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Iceland, Austria and Ireland
DDown 3:	Sketch monarch in pose
DDown 4:	9 15 = 24
DDown 5:	Inward reference given in case upset during poem
DDown 6:	Mean to secure prominence first
DDown 7:	So to speak, are you familiar with Alaska's capital?
DDown 8:	Glass vessel, river vessel close to shore
DDown 13:	Horse on hind legs to go over again
DDown 14:	Wife given wake-up call rising around noon - surely not!	WELLINEVER
DDown 16:	One lining Jane's nest	EVRIE
DDown 19:	Moved camp
DDown 21:	Rio's game, yet to fix line in Charlie
DDown 23:	Hat ultimately on 28? Unlikely!
DDown 24:	At end of dusk it's dark, man!
DDown 26:	See 8
DDown 28:	Linesman sees another holding his head
DDown 29:	8 for which A, B, C or D too much? On the contrary