The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 7th December 2005

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 7th December 2005. View the answers below..

Also try..
All The Guardian Cryptic Answers All Publications

The Answers

Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Garbage! "Le Magic Roundabout" the setting for "Carousel"?
AAcross 5:	See 1
AAcross 9:	"Avert flu bugs, eat mince", parroted this author
AAcross 10:	Port launch finally provided between the Americas
AAcross 11:	Queen Victoria in illicit affair episode
AAcross 12:	As a good chess player I can't fail to include a dramatic opening
AAcross 14:	Low English absorbing society creature
AAcross 15:	Slippery type the French led up the garden path!
AAcross 16:	Brutal cynic revealed in the Bard, Homer and the woman's web pages in The Times	THERSITES
AAcross 18:	Recipe from New Orleans: play jazz by soaking in the manner of America
AAcross 21:	One recently delivered with assistance
AAcross 22:	The flight of the terns heard	SPIRALSTAIRCASE
AAcross 23:	Cloth adult isn't weaving, hasn't started yet
AAcross 24:	Dylan's lowland lady was looking down	SADEYED
DDown 1:	Trousers nicked in Surrey	BAGSHOT
DDown 2:	Tatler journalist taking a stand?
DDown 3:	Mineral said to invade a parasite
DDown 4:	Surrey town's Ecstasy source	EWELL
DDown 5:	Bearing on object of contemplation elevated before the church
DDown 6:	Sedge cutter's harvest usually found after removing the tips
DDown 7:	It puts one off psychiatry
DDown 8:	For such a coat for baby, mother at home accepts outside support
DDown 13:	... and where was Venus when Cook sought her?	INTRANSIT
DDown 14:	Supreme international body	MISSWORLD
DDown 15:	Must start off in a record-player's tunes
DDown 17:	Mine manager a fool
DDown 19:	Home on the range once more
DDown 20:	Collect for a divine liturgy