The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 23rd December 2008

There are 15 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 23rd December 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Language of offensive old books rejected	PUSHTO
AAcross 4:	Something with a blade kills woman
AAcross 9:	Taylor enjoys entertaining another actress
AAcross 10:	Music institution once fraudulent
AAcross 11:	Ena is bare, cavorting? That's saucy
AAcross 12:	The head may be wooden in school
AAcross 13:	Wire in the mousetrap?
AAcross 13:	Wire in the mousetrap?
AAcross 17:	Drink gives one dreadful toothache, pressure region being squeezed
AAcross 20:	Girl with whom there's nothing "switched on"
AAcross 21:	Extra cocaine is brought in - it being this?
AAcross 23:	Work created for a return - book penned by drudge?
AAcross 24:	Physicist as radical writer releasing anger
AAcross 25:	Convey love, offering coffee
AAcross 26:	Welsh craft won't allow leader to show authority
DDown 1:	Strain on part of the body leading to retreat
DDown 1:	Strain on part of the body leading to retreat
DDown 2:	Flag and little flower given to Queen
DDown 3:	Bit of joint in which musical group's turned up
DDown 5:	Like a monk given vocation and told to keep quiet at start of meeting?	CALLEDTOORDER
DDown 6:	Extraordinarily wonderful guy who could make hope surer
DDown 7:	Survey oxygen after a space mission
DDown 8:	Wings, see, with skill ascending
DDown 10:	Sincere chap spouting (primarily real Luddite within?)
DDown 14:	Store "black stuff", as you might say, in this bunker
DDown 15:	Rotten fellow ("Bad Bill") in car	CADILLAC
DDown 16:	"Banish lessons about many faiths" - Pope's man?
DDown 18:	Item left in car
DDown 19:	Excellent hint to big boozers half ignored
DDown 19:	Excellent hint to big boozers half ignored
DDown 22:	Person underground, given warning, runs