The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 3rd May 2006

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 3rd May 2006. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Western man after start of hockey game
AAcross 4:	A writer, having died, gets attributed
AAcross 9:	Small cleansing plant
AAcross 10:	Terminal battle?
AAcross 11:	Wild flower bard complained about
AAcross 13:	Corporal, say, interrupting game on deck is a twit
AAcross 14:	Fruit for the audience? That's not fair
AAcross 16:	Characters from "A Winter's Tale" formerly
AAcross 18:	Fool fools American birds
AAcross 21:	Composer regards a wilder composer?
AAcross 23:	Regular soldiers meeting hot shot do get cross
AAcross 24:	Roman leader's watching out for Roman poet
AAcross 25:	Playing darts? Yes, in leisure time	RESTDAYS
AAcross 26:	Timber provided by household god as building material
DDown 1:	Part of a lock, part with a spring
DDown 2:	Mawkish poem by Tennyson about love
DDown 3:	After a capital party, on with the dance!
DDown 5:	How a leading actor came over as a Shakespearean lover?	STARCROSSED
DDown 6:	French town house vacated in the Borders
DDown 7:	Trendy Greek dramatist before running to seed
DDown 8:	Is Orlando resort for dead things?
DDown 12:	Former scheme a politician is clarifying
DDown 13:	Physicist having his Nobel presentation? Right!
DDown 15:	Isles in the Channel Islands left outlying isles out?	SCILLIES
DDown 17:	Cloud seen by composer over centre of Austria
DDown 19:	Good news for supporter after a quarter to five?
DDown 20:	Film-maker on the outskirts of Dunsinane climbing a lot of trees	EDWOOD
DDown 22:	Confused impression created by publisher's recommendation, mostly