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    The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 24th January 2008

    There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th January 2008. View the answers below..
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    Number# Clue Answer
    AAcross 1: Tree obscuring a Calais caféFALSEACACIA
    AAcross 9: Performing women not allowed to interrupt one
    AAcross 10: Anxious type, dumping wife for siren initially, in a comparatively poor state
    AAcross 11: Union post for defence against strikes
    AAcross 12: Funny paper, so vote negatively?
    AAcross 13: Stiff rum without hesitation when in love, as personal protection
    AAcross 14: Conservative club embraces rule which facilitates retraction of what one earlier pounded home!
    AAcross 14: Conservative club embraces rule which facilitates retraction of what one earlier pounded home!
    AAcross 16: Where publicans often are 'canned'?BEHINDBARS
    AAcross 19: Say nowadays, 'Gosh!'
    AAcross 21: Run out, legs extended by a quarter
    AAcross 22: See 16 DownPROOFVEST
    AAcross 24: Intoxicant has the drunk taking one look back
    AAcross 25: Stepping out from pear-shaped can in Row G
    AAcross 26: Regulatory nature of the father of parliaments abroad
    DDown 1: Combination of char, maybe, and carpenter bound to make a British institutionFISHANDCHIPSHOP
    DDown 2: Master film director gets Oscar finally
    DDown 3: Look confrontational
    DDown 4: Part of United Kingdom Bill overturned creating legal precedent
    DDown 5: Intellectual brain reduced by 60% in Rye, say?
    DDown 6: Basic physical attraction of beast on barred property?
    DDown 7: Earth-dweller knocking wings off UFO X-cubeFOXCUB
    DDown 8: See 13
    DDown 15: Means of global communication put inside alien
    DDown 16: Garment that could prevent the fatal progress of slugs
    DDown 17: Bass before oxygen-enriched April swims of Arctic and Antarctic regions
    DDown 18: Dancing, hard on the tail of eisteddfod's Welsh locationRHONDDA
    DDown 20: Unidentified male, John, accepts name entered by old-timer
    DDown 23: Play soldier moulds
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