The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 12th December 2006

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 12th December 2006. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Number turn up with Putin
AAcross 5:	Gourmet store with American composer
AAcross 9:	Service makes cars go
AAcross 10:	Playwright - there's many worse
AAcross 12:	Dial tones answer call to account
AAcross 15:	Last choice's not English, perhaps, for a pedant
AAcross 17:	Ladder with one component short
AAcross 19:	Singular royal pronoun
AAcross 20:	Here president saw nothing amiss
AAcross 22:	Series of notes by pianist creates a measure of upheaval
AAcross 26:	A world ruler is its rocker
AAcross 27:	Agreement with shrink
AAcross 28:	Lying with bend in backbone
AAcross 29:	Legal process when the case collapses
DDown 1:	Theatrical party
DDown 2:	She voices a chronic complaint
DDown 3:	A town deprived of its head is likely to collapse
DDown 4:	Weird and ever poetic, that is
DDown 6:	Heartless meaning could be a riddle
DDown 7:	Angry about student sensuality? Clarify!
DDown 8:	Report omits nothing: after church, 9 take poison
DDown 11:	Arab leader said to cause agitation
DDown 13:	While company follows step by step, they proceed on course	ASCOTRACES
DDown 14:	Help me claw off what's clinging and won't let me go	WHEELCLAMP
DDown 16:	Thus eyed, one is blissfully innocent
DDown 18:	E.C. Turner set up to be resolving into first principles
DDown 21:	Hot forged pound notes
DDown 23:	About romance and tying the knot - no hitch?
DDown 24:	Cost of flight to Laos, say
DDown 25:	Initial typeset without reversion