The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 18th May 2006

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 18th May 2006. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	The best bit's a different colour
AAcross 6:	Give best of iron to Paris
AAcross 9:	Illuminated character of 28
AAcross 10:	Jump race telescoped by character of 28	BOUNDERBY
AAcross 11:	Man, of course, dies to grow afresh	TIGERWOODS
AAcross 12:	See 9
AAcross 14:	Southerly breeze the French do?
AAcross 15:	Cock getting one for nothing, one for the oven
AAcross 17:	Dangerous flower goes to Tannenbaum
AAcross 19:	Substitute for devil responsible for 28
AAcross 20:	Business knowledge about tug, scene of 28
AAcross 22:	What keeps leader back is a plant
AAcross 25:	I wish I could record one way I deal with listeners
AAcross 26:	Slip top off - panic
AAcross 27:	Offender reportedly encountered ...
AAcross 28:	... runs round government department with many a book
DDown 1:	Wear what one's used to
DDown 2:	Splendid network in Spooner's writing for character of 28	GRADGRIND
DDown 3:	Airline man, awfully loud, at loud scene in the old Rift Valley	LAKERUDOLF
DDown 4:	Venus loses by following speaker to call in receivers	GOBROKE
DDown 5:	Theology's restricted subject to Jupiter's work
DDown 6:	The dead must repeat the same stuff
DDown 7:	Give up supporting Japanese game
DDown 8:	Boy scares holders of polo sticks?	ROYALARMS
DDown 13:	Potential rebel with 10 in whisky
DDown 14:	Forbidden to practise breaking stuff with rock	STRUCKOFF
DDown 16:	Thence comes the card giver's memory
DDown 18:	Parsley is showy, without point
DDown 19:	Pan (according to "The Wind in the Willows") turns up in canis major
DDown 21:	Mound where Charles met Cromwell?
DDown 23:	Fiddle turns up on board
DDown 24:	See 20