The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 9th March 2006

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 9th March 2006. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Boil off stewed fig, say
AAcross 4:	Silvery sailor keeps quiet on leaving capital	ASHBLOND
AAcross 9:	Column of Dutch sheep?
AAcross 10:	Coarse 'orsemen full of bitterness in North America
AAcross 11:	Spice Boy taken in by twister
AAcross 12:	Debauchee drinking gallons of make-up
AAcross 13:	Welsh setback in case of wasting
AAcross 17:	Ming (or Maoist) measure in metamorphosis, maybe
AAcross 20:	Computerisation reveals places of origin
AAcross 21:	Eking out stored fodder at critical juncture
AAcross 23:	Marine transport ordered for a lost holiday
AAcross 24:	Old rascal forfeiting right to attendant
AAcross 25:	Wine, duly fermented, may be hard to handle
AAcross 26:	Love to receive Romeo's mail, perhaps
DDown 1:	Novelist holds figure up for extermination
DDown 2:	Drains jug carried by guru
DDown 3:	Get sick of turning leaves
DDown 5:	Mitigates impact of huge rats running amok aboard lighter	SUGARSTHEPILL
DDown 6:	Pregnant, not dead, in Lugosi's part of London	BELGRAVIA
DDown 7:	Impenetrable composition leading to audience's discomfort
DDown 8:	"Keep your options open", says Frenchwoman
DDown 10:	Fail to drain udders before court d-drama	UNDERMILKWOOD
DDown 14:	Northern Europe mostly ill-disposed to seaweed
DDown 15:	5 closeted, as a rapper might say, with culinary challenge
DDown 16:	Maybe Franklin's backer switched poles
DDown 18:	Try to sell solver foreign language	PUSHTU
DDown 19:	Drink to old women in rural setting
DDown 22:	Junior swimmer continuously bearing left