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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 24th August 2006

There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th August 2006. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 9: Doesn't release senior and junior model trapped in houseHOLDSONTO
AAcross 10: Part of inner tube, or of erstwhile umbrella?
AAcross 11: Selected portion of old publication
AAcross 12: Two fish for an apple
AAcross 13: Lambretta-rider taking exercise on one?
AAcross 14: The men put out first? Far from it
AAcross 16: Film of girl catching Poles' disease and musical couple taking composer abackSUNSETBOULEVARD
AAcross 19: Animal doctor interrupts cure in place of worship
AAcross 21: Hunchback with mouth odour
AAcross 22: Get down to work keeping time right in musical passage
AAcross 23: That's one fewer sent back as scrap
AAcross 24: Don't pass round the trainee's weapon!
AAcross 25: Depressed by drug prevention campaign
AAcross 25: Depressed by drug prevention campaign
DDown 1: Notepaper?
DDown 2: Panic, getting accommodation on the nailFLATSPIN
DDown 3: When women's dress is lifted in divine residence?
DDown 4: Discharge great quantities heavenward
DDown 5: Couple can't be converted to the work of Gilbert and George, say
DDown 6: Panoramic primrose, perhaps
DDown 6: Panoramic primrose, perhaps
DDown 7: Force invading state, but meaning no harm
DDown 8: Sticks up, self-satisfied
DDown 14: Firm brown digit set before novelistUMBERTOECO
DDown 15: Skid, sounding drunk, and collapse on the road
DDown 17: Before receiving shock treatment, I left - that may be raised
DDown 18: Material decrees to restrict yobs swamping the east of France
DDown 20: Headgear that's initially talk of the town
DDown 21: Writer on 1, topless, talking incoherently
DDown 22: Piece of furniture to date inconclusively
DDown 23: Expressed contempt for minor altercation
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