The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 3rd August 2006

There are 18 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 3rd August 2006. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Sordid details
AAcross 1:	Sordid details
AAcross 5:	Old bean is so mean - that's about right
AAcross 10:	A former country detailed its location
AAcross 11:	Old World movement offered a new religious text - a price too high to pay
AAcross 12:	Possible headline describing the day Joan of Arc had her chips?
AAcross 13:	An unsavoury incident?
AAcross 13:	An unsavoury incident?
AAcross 14:	A card game, of course
AAcross 16:	Into which Xhosa marquetry has been laden, roughly speaking	OSAMA
AAcross 17:	In discussion, head for row
AAcross 19:	Giving flower to male is foolishness
AAcross 23:	One distanced from the mistreatment of a friendly woodland resident
AAcross 24:	Weak, though employed?
AAcross 26:	Grabbing uniform, lifted out of place where shot, perhaps
AAcross 27:	Bird losing way going west is a wader
AAcross 28:	Make to bury male - or do otherwise?
AAcross 29:	Tied up with financial administration on the phone?
DDown 2:	See former pupil do his duty
DDown 3:	Close match may have been so tense
DDown 4:	Expressing a choice of alternatives - sun and rain, say
DDown 6:	Yank about to dispose of pipes
DDown 7:	Preparation of ricin isn't essential
DDown 8:	Abandon the sick in Kentish Town, being material
DDown 9:	Given large drink and a spliff, journalist can twist your arm?
DDown 15:	Tongue which may twist
DDown 18:	Adversary caught heading the wrong way, 'e's locked up with set of keys
DDown 20:	Finger the dog
DDown 21:	Wow! Lovely example of moulding
DDown 22:	Tuareg's forbidding home leave
DDown 25:	See 12