The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 8th October 2008

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 8th October 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Little present of moderate cost - no good returning if assassin's about
AAcross 9:	Be in bed in dress contemporary with Mozart	SALIERI
AAcross 10:	Cloth has grandmother on her toes
AAcross 11:	Fair chance this number's lost its line
AAcross 12:	Travel free some of the way - or not, say
AAcross 13:	Persevere with tool for fusing metal: remove ring and adjust slightly	SOLDIERON
AAcross 14:	Refuse to tease
AAcross 15:	Romance as we've never seen it before
AAcross 17:	A right to make holes inside a lot of trees
AAcross 20:	Result of tables turned at Hull with gas explosion
AAcross 22:	Peer, member of the quality
AAcross 23:	Near desert place in the south of Italy? In the south of France
AAcross 24:	Boy with no glossy cut
AAcross 25:	Significant openings give strong impulse to lines of operation	KEYHOLESURGERY
DDown 1:	Last nasty messy problem for adviser with computer
DDown 2:	Eliminate all friction from fuel source
DDown 3:	Freeze looks after the money	KEEPSTILL
DDown 4:	Exclusion of alternatives for those who have done it here
DDown 5:	French churchman born (as they say) in criminal surroundings ...	FENELON
DDown 6:	... for whom the one church provided food
DDown 7:	It takes a complex character to vote for the Sun
DDown 8:	Obstructive about carriage: is setter in it, pregnant?	INTHEFAMILYWAY
DDown 14:	Woodman to "welcome little fishes in"?
DDown 16:	Base bearing little relation to concrete?
DDown 17:	A succession was first raised with Norfolk in Sussex	ARUNDEL
DDown 18:	Meat - reports of lamb - around in islands
DDown 19:	To comment on the repulsive - that's a hard thing
DDown 21:	Sideways move to be left in?