The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 25th March 2009

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 25th March 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Players collectively demolish extra food
AAcross 9:	Old king's literary pseudonym
AAcross 10:	Name of man backing another in Spanish city
AAcross 11:	Solitary types disoriented in chain store
AAcross 12:	Mother has to purchase, we hear, dear kind of fish
AAcross 14:	Fit for match between the Spanish and the French, one great back
AAcross 15:	No real alterations seen in 2, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 19, 22 across and 22 down
AAcross 17:	See 15
AAcross 20:	It's bad, tucking into something to eat — very bad
AAcross 22:	Name Dianne differently	NADINE
AAcross 23:	Scary thing, Frenchman turning on fellow conservative
AAcross 24:	Money deposited in bank safe, but only to begin with
AAcross 25:	Article by informal relative becoming academic text
AAcross 26:	Wrongly removed tube buried in one part of garden
DDown 1:	Direction to slow down tune trio ruined
DDown 2:	New name given Jane, after moving east
DDown 3:	One rule I had set up for Indian festival	DIWALI
DDown 4:	Fearful hen I can, oddly, put in kind of curry
DDown 5:	Stone block with solid middle installed in part of year
DDown 6:	Dainty little daughter covering one leg, as requested
DDown 7:	What Blair became before spring
DDown 13:	Asian citizen I see being mistreated around judge	BEIJINGESE
DDown 16:	Bill that is, over time, providing a crucial check
DDown 18:	Maid of Orleans uplifted, guided and elevated
DDown 19:	See 4
DDown 21:	They are mostly awfully coarse
DDown 22:	Name taken by poet, strangely unread
DDown 24:	See 12