The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 15th December 2008

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

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Table arrangement for slimmer starting on diet?	SEATINGPLAN
AAcross 9:	One has little time to cover history of painting technique
AAcross 10:	A dramatist carried on like this, looking back
AAcross 11:	No one cheers - pop singer retreats, howling
AAcross 12:	Binders known by old hands
AAcross 13:	Follow eastern bigwig in Venice
AAcross 14:	Order a lot of water for Old Nick?	MARSHALSEA
AAcross 16:	Family doctor warns about seafood	KINGPRAWNS
AAcross 19:	A flower Theseus regularly picked?
AAcross 21:	Queen or rook captured? That may be a false move
AAcross 22:	Fool a long way off, missing the first or second?
AAcross 24:	A decent reform, as established by law
AAcross 25:	Dreadful lies about Ham being outcast son of Abraham
AAcross 26:	What actuates Zebedee to get a car? The starter?	SPRINGROLLS
DDown 1:	Spain guarantees recreation for elderly people
DDown 2:	Astray on the ocean
DDown 3:	Battle I almost won with James the First?
DDown 4:	Where teams play for sufficient reasons
DDown 5:	Local leader, European or African
DDown 6:	Paris can do deals to develop a French region
DDown 7:	Annoyed, having come to a climax, so to speak
DDown 8:	A Japanese entertainer - she gets involved with a GI
DDown 15:	Worker from the outskirts of Prague interrupting speaker
DDown 16:	One may be employed in zoo, dungeon and conference centre
DDown 17:	Careless freedom in desert
DDown 18:	Dinner - without noise, without wine - is less pleasant
DDown 20:	Take up residence in a Yorkshire town
DDown 23:	African belt has flipping external borders	SAHEL