The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 7th April 2006

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 7th April 2006. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Heavy rainfall for French follows the light stuff
AAcross 5:	Thus to include church nave initially is attractive
AAcross 9:	In which the pitch might be investigated
AAcross 11:	Charge in respect of a quantity unknown
AAcross 12:	Important trend on paper is different
AAcross 15:	Cram in school, say
AAcross 16:	An observation about tenor: "stunning"
AAcross 18:	Must a shine somehow indicate fire?
AAcross 19:	State capital lacks refinement mainly for her
AAcross 21:	Is it needed to plug the housing gap?	BRIDGINGLOAN
AAcross 24:	Wrap note in one
AAcross 25:	Discourage a bit of satire -- it's not impressive	DAMPSQUIB
AAcross 26:	Man about to return home	ERNEST
AAcross 27:	Batting posture, for example
DDown 1:	Mug put down is set up
DDown 2:	Court fellow from Barking?
DDown 3:	It's possible, without hesitation, to produce puzzles
DDown 4:	Collected pain? One ends sumo wrestling!
DDown 6:	Something stimulating and fine, newly found in teashop
DDown 7:	Accounts we're told about
DDown 8:	It's written in code and found in vault, having no weight
DDown 10:	Old book of music from "the King"
DDown 13:	Bless me! A gathering about silver collection
DDown 14:	Regret that article for publication has two letters cut out
DDown 17:	Second-rate loungers, with nothing to lose, developed into incompetent fools
DDown 20:	Mongrel as best dog
DDown 22:	The poet's endless stream
DDown 23:	Fit as a result medication without avoiding all alcohol