The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 22nd December 2005

There are 16 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 22nd December 2005. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Old musical players making comeback in effect
AAcross 10:	South African martyr hugs liberal sergeant on TV	BILKO
AAcross 11:	Muslim ascetic having a weekend in tree
AAcross 12:	Pole thus imprisoned by proper sort of tyrant
AAcross 13:	Oxford and Cambridge differ about rest
AAcross 14:	22 down one 19 down, we hear? But that's out of bounds
AAcross 17:	Rover never barking
AAcross 19:	Run past in discussion
AAcross 20:	Thespian finally acquainted with material
AAcross 21:	Hundred resident in shoe - shame!
AAcross 22:	Interjection from Scotsman tucking into cheese roll
AAcross 24:	Drive softly into tree in front of sovereign
AAcross 24:	Drive softly into tree in front of sovereign
AAcross 26:	Target in 1 club, spirits kept up to achieve 22 down
AAcross 28:	22 down by river and lake
AAcross 29:	Existing quality in a vessel at sea
DDown 1:	Game to sell up
DDown 2:	See 26
DDown 3:	Just one introduced to smallholding, certainly not English
DDown 4:	Sinful trade, penny-pinching if 19 down
DDown 5:	Wave painted with minimum of ebb, suggesting this?
DDown 6:	Fit relation, if 19 down
DDown 7:	Whip good amid pleasure as photographer's aid
DDown 8:	Appear menacing in reception room, if 19 down
DDown 13:	Goddess taking new arrivals, if 19 down
DDown 15:	Thrashing tail of salmon tangled in angler's equipment
DDown 16:	Weapon, as one might say, if 19 down
DDown 18:	Vegetarian's order is terribly late in canteen
DDown 19:	Tungsten absorbed by cut in stomach making sick ...	BELOWPAR
DDown 22:	... as a parrot, perhaps
DDown 23:	Quick constable's first to join force
DDown 24:	See 26
DDown 25:	Tear skin
DDown 27:	22 down's place reliable, though no house