The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 5th December 2008

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 5th December 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Writer and US president enraged university here
AAcross 10:	Swing band with a cellist, unusually
AAcross 11:	Bones found in river two years after the Massacre of the Innocents?
AAcross 12:	As seen in Kenya, large antelope
AAcross 13:	Between New Year in one country and summer in another, have food and a private meeting
AAcross 14:	Woman in 20s who's not staying cool?
AAcross 16:	Each year I would take off and let go	PAIDOFF
AAcross 18:	Managed to fire rifle
AAcross 20:	Abandoned respect for royal staff
AAcross 21:	Completely mistaken, also exhausted
AAcross 23:	Animal first over threshold of ark
AAcross 24:	Among minor masterpieces, Bellini's work
AAcross 25:	Hesitant expression about member playing one instrument
AAcross 26:	Me and thee somehow composed old song	HOMESWEETHOME
DDown 2:	Not for the first time ocean damaged net
DDown 3:	Low mark for big mouth
DDown 4:	Advertisement more suitable for trans-formational device
DDown 5:	Dance performed by Armstrong?
DDown 6:	Give legal status to supporting African country's energy
DDown 7:	Part of mountain is cold place - zero Fahrenheit on top
DDown 8:	Head in direction of compass reading? Exactly!	POINTFORPOINT
DDown 9:	What a recidivist does, repeatedly	TIMEAFTERTIME
DDown 15:	Verlaine's rhymes for ugly woman	PLAINJANE
DDown 17:	Head off most prejudice and social exclusion
DDown 19:	King currently welcoming medical group showing expertise
DDown 19:	King currently welcoming medical group showing expertise
DDown 20:	Release group without charge
DDown 22:	Doctor's orders, having this part of the body covered
DDown 23:	Assassin of commander-in-chief and army general