The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 4th December 2008

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 4th December 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Leader to swallow insult: take time off to dye
AAcross 5:	Be happy! Have a cigarette!
AAcross 9:	Female body managing two silent minutes left off	WOMENSINSTITUTE
AAcross 10:	Future seed of Christmas, did you say?
AAcross 11:	Good little boy wearing English fur
AAcross 12:	In sport, to get plates of gold with silver backing one must pull out all the stops	FULLORGAN
AAcross 14:	Right oven for joint?
AAcross 15:	Piece of music as teaching for class
AAcross 16:	Champion's getting a job at police centre
AAcross 18:	Tester about to have caught announcer
AAcross 21:	Man of battle takes part of printer
AAcross 22:	A lot of hot food, possibly cumulative, to resume with accents
AAcross 23:	Leo, non-starter once, becomes allegedly aphrodisiac
AAcross 24:	Toy flipper said to belong to 15 down
DDown 1:	Got rid of surrounding pole, cut short
DDown 2:	More light, say, for old madrigals about tailless beast on two roads	FAMOUSLASTWORDS
DDown 3:	Anger directed against European surveyor's mark
DDown 4:	Sound of organ having setter at the heart
DDown 5:	Parisian dance to endure: sunburn to disappear	LASTTANGO
DDown 6:	Speaker's forbidding writers of tales
DDown 7:	Miniature digit with hard objects on boat	THUMBNAILSKETCH
DDown 8:	Parson in confined stop
DDown 13:	Thanks to rank, archemperor with no son is included
DDown 14:	Consequence of jury's disagreement about point opposed to job for dog?
DDown 15:	Volunteers to split churches, a monstrous order
DDown 17:	Treating cancer I find horribly fascinating	CIRCEAN
DDown 19:	Money heard to be of vantage
DDown 20:	Drinking song?