The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 5th November 2007

There are 14 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 5th November 2007. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Make merry, take in a show
AAcross 5:	Plump for pudding
AAcross 9:	How to serve toast, say, when retired?
AAcross 10:	I eat out in foreign capital
AAcross 11:	Simple part of the pastry cook's work	APIECEOFCAKE
AAcross 13:	Withdrawal of 101 meeting points
AAcross 14:	Drastic cuts in the monastic establishment
AAcross 17:	So he and I form a strong attachment
AAcross 18:	Trotsky came back for the festival
AAcross 20:	Retire from one's position in hostility
AAcross 23:	The single boy in a family is very much a favourite
AAcross 24:	Shown to have a deficit and charged
AAcross 25:	Breakfast ingredient fresh from the fridge, for example
AAcross 26:	They sit for qualifications
DDown 2:	We must top and tail these earthbound creatures
DDown 3:	Return to the country, the scene of the crime
DDown 4:	A poet not out after a spree	LARKIN
DDown 5:	Make love?	REDUCETONOTHING
DDown 6:	Makes fun of politician seen in saloon, drunk
DDown 7:	Policeman held up in a state of terror
DDown 8:	Canal employee identified by hair and ring
DDown 12:	He's on the way to work
DDown 15:	Continued, oddly enough, to be missed
DDown 16:	Dreaming about being in easy reach of a gun
DDown 19:	One who cares to make an offer
DDown 21:	Discrimination makes sense
DDown 22:	Damage one's shed, sadly