The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 31st August 2006

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 31st August 2006. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Tick off day when a beautiful creature's around
AAcross 9:	Setter's film about love incapable of the long view
AAcross 10:	Split, not junction, as indicator of staff
AAcross 11:	Magician from 1 or 16 and from 2 and 21	WIZARDOFOZ
AAcross 12:	Numbered equipment for little beast
AAcross 14:	Rome's Rome, possibly, not English as she was in 18 19	MRSMOORE
AAcross 15:	Cold food - pray to follow, say?
AAcross 17:	Ken's spring exam?
AAcross 20:	Setter treats himself to new beginning in opera	IDOMENEO
AAcross 22:	Transporter on holiday?
AAcross 23:	Baker to friends, with Southern general North in records	CANDLEENDS
AAcross 24:	A hyperbolic function is a blunt instrument
AAcross 25:	Glass paper?
AAcross 26:	Changing gear after short distance at the wheel?	INCHARGE
DDown 1:	Queen of the South?
DDown 2:	Comment of friend on the web
DDown 3:	West Indies lives twice where losing is impossible	WINWIN
DDown 4:	Rootstock is where rye 'angs out, they say
DDown 5:	Friend entertaining relations to a heavenly meal
DDown 6:	Corresponding with doctor, trademark in house unfinished
DDown 7:	Energy of Spanish and Babylonian towns
DDown 13:	New pictures of team without a poem in lake	TATEMODERN
DDown 16:	Capital near 24, possibly
DDown 18:	Book has a bad French translation done by an idiot ...	APASSAGE
DDown 19:	See 18	TOINDIA
DDown 21:	... and the return of the last chamois	DRAZIZ
DDown 22:	Split piece with second piece split
DDown 24:	Fruit with pincers