The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 12th August 2008

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 12th August 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	"Sex" written in understated line on box
AAcross 9:	A site for thoroughfare
AAcross 10:	Rest behind united party	UKIP
AAcross 11:	Party a scream, with Mary Poppins on Ecstasy
AAcross 12:	See 22
AAcross 14:	Think about clue - hint: it's cold (worth a guess here)
AAcross 15:	Stick on boat, claiming tree house providing very basic accommodation	ONESTAR
AAcross 17:	Party behind gifts
AAcross 20:	Situation where no race is fixed
AAcross 22:	Singer having snorted cocaine finally (surprisingly) claiming to see	STEVIE
AAcross 23:	Dread keeping man in check, shrouded in gloom
AAcross 24:	Party payment Tory leader's pocketed
AAcross 25:	Battle to get individual into west London area
AAcross 26:	Celebrating where wasp's abdomen tapers?
DDown 1:	Hide what fills bedcover?
DDown 2:	Rocky paints logs red
DDown 3:	One scoring number, bagging century
DDown 4:	Improvements on documents
DDown 5:	End of the line for Napoleon?
DDown 6:	Process sea water, brewing ale instead
DDown 7:	Dig fast, surfacing around centre of mounds
DDown 13:	To ensure nothing left to claim inside bottom of container, hit ground
DDown 16:	A sort of robin redbreast's heading east, flying
DDown 18:	Live catches hauled up in moment of death
DDown 19:	Thus Conservative that is Tory has no heart for Thatcher's myth?
DDown 21:	See 14
DDown 22:	See 2
DDown 24:	Cheese served in café, tasty