The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 30th September 2008

There are 15 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 30th September 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	3's sign, candid, vain or daft
AAcross 9:	See 24 down
AAcross 10:	Bird found in an electric oven?
AAcross 11:	Left with something to fight about, vocal change
AAcross 12:	Tap: tell me, what do you do if it's stuck?
AAcross 14:	Old fight to grab two teas, say, for a light meal
AAcross 15:	Spooner's 24 9 for the big squeeze
AAcross 15:	Spooner's 24 9 for the big squeeze
AAcross 17:	See 8
AAcross 20:	Disappear, seeing Welshman outside English church
AAcross 22:	Bird after doctor, seeing severe cut
AAcross 23:	What keeps mum awake at night? Second husband in sulk
AAcross 24:	Elephants, for example, in a group sensed through the ears, audibly
AAcross 25:	Who's after Bush, given the Second Amendment? His running mate's secured northern state; so who's Bush after?	OSAMA
AAcross 26:	See 25
DDown 1:	Lower iron, perhaps?
DDown 2:	Recognise refusal by the sound of it
DDown 3:	Freud, perhaps, has time to fill in nobleman (detailed)
DDown 4:	Stolen? Pay quickly
DDown 5:	'eavenly 'at always a soother
DDown 6:	Swimmer sensed surfacing through skin getting hard
DDown 7:	Last possible holiday destination?
DDown 13:	Sporting nation rich, after gymnastics
DDown 16:	Finished with school group, as struggling school may go?
DDown 18:	Colleague's cracker containing fowl's bowels
DDown 18:	Colleague's cracker containing fowl's bowels
DDown 19:	In defence, one's built on suspicion
DDown 21:	Magic formation of flying geese died, swallowed by a number of ducks
DDown 22:	Sea in a holy city
DDown 24:	Spooner's metal building an irritating thing?