The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 4th April 2006

There are 16 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 4th April 2006. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Wide, large prison for the strumpet's child
AAcross 5:	Farceur fails to close a Scottish theatre	TRAVERS
AAcross 9:	Flirting with daughter before marriage
AAcross 10:	Linen tape used in drain cleaning
AAcross 11:	See 3
AAcross 12:	Horsewhip the defender with the up and over line
AAcross 14:	Pinhead? Not I! Might be her!
AAcross 15:	One-sided celebration, say, for divorcées	EXPARTE
AAcross 16:	James's valet joining alien group
AAcross 18:	Ecstasy absorbed by old soak returning from college	EXETER
AAcross 20:	Abraham Darby's remains rot, sadly
AAcross 21:	See 3
AAcross 24:	Weapon thrown back by oriental informer
AAcross 25:	Wilde, aka "frothy ale brewer"
AAcross 26:	Stan Getz failing? No way! First, there's a yen to see him in flower!
AAcross 27:	Offensive about bum notes from this
DDown 1:	Bubbly dowager?
DDown 2:	Note the song where would-be Brownies camp?
DDown 3:	Expedition suggested in Macbeth soliloquy: "Interned wretch! Renowned idle wee twit! We knife thee painfully!"	IFIT
DDown 4:	See 3	DONEWHENTISDONE
DDown 5:	See 3	THENTWEREWELLIT
DDown 6:	He counselled David with a greeting, tho' help failed	AHITHOPHEL
DDown 7:	Endless reliance could be redundant at Bletchley Park?
DDown 8:	Spot moose mushrooms rising
DDown 13:	Male office worker in match play	THETEMPEST
DDown 16:	See 3
DDown 17:	African, Welshman and Scotsman	IVORIAN
DDown 19:	"My Way" sung on this journey?
DDown 19:	"My Way" sung on this journey?
DDown 22:	Good type resettled Israelites here
DDown 23:	Tell them to go for cabbage!