The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 9th July 2009

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 9th July 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Put off drinking tin or bottle
AAcross 9:	Scoundrel, catching cold, turned into parasite
AAcross 10:	Wing, maybe, taking nothing from nowhere
AAcross 11:	Fulsome speaker's hour tom-tom-beating?
AAcross 12:	Overeat, devouring head of Elephant Man
AAcross 14:	Brownshirts' officer grabbing spoil from famous piazza	SANMARCO
AAcross 15:	Music-maker cooking broccoli pie without cheese
AAcross 17:	Dread receiving pounds, shillings and pence for mineral
AAcross 20:	Consider relative merits of adopting Germany as ally
AAcross 22:	Swimmer performing hymn without piano, previously
AAcross 23:	Half-train learner in open spaces, returning to place of training
AAcross 24:	Be in hot water?
AAcross 25:	Part of 10's second handful
AAcross 26:	Partnership cutting grass in town	BARNSLEY
DDown 1:	Unhealthy condition of North African — one entering Italy
DDown 2:	Sacrificial animal to beat back, initially
DDown 3:	Pen note to European leader in awkward situation
DDown 4:	Backing experiment's object
DDown 5:	Girl was active, formerly, entertaining troops
DDown 6:	Shed — no, another setter packed with sex appeal — undergoing change
DDown 7:	Tenor in drunken choir fought for fort? Not in such a dialect
DDown 13:	Police car turning right first, cutting both ways
DDown 16:	Young man finding Kylie surprisingly sophisticated
DDown 18:	Drinks appointment kept by missionaries
DDown 19:	Stronghold's to experience fresh uncertainty?
DDown 21:	Overheads incurred in bronco stabling
DDown 22:	Bearing grudge, keeping medic in dark
DDown 24:	Deep, or denizen thereof