The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 24th September 2009

There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th September 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Bowl a full toss — it's ended on asphalt!
AAcross 10:	Stupid reason to lose one's tongue
AAcross 11:	Maybe Morecambe's bounded by a mother country
AAcross 12:	Mean to hold on when the next dark time comes
AAcross 13:	Account level in the US
AAcross 14:	Certain amount of friction casually reported in an unspecified place
AAcross 16:	A name current crowd associates with social beings: "spirit raisers"
AAcross 19:	Leave salt over old soldier
AAcross 21:	Name state with retro look
AAcross 22:	Jack gets each soul turning green
AAcross 23:	Canny source of strength for the pipe-smoking sailor
AAcross 24:	Mark, Barbie's friend, toasted so?
AAcross 25:	Cover for the sleeping seabird (blue)
DDown 1:	And, shortly before turning 50, Madonna's disputed strip?
DDown 2:	Treetop bats round lake practise thought transference?
DDown 3:	Happy? Shame — that's arrogant
DDown 4:	Small carnivore shortened portico
DDown 5:	Drama when non-permanent male employee is included in trial	THETEMPEST
DDown 6:	Hardly celebs, "X" and "Y"?
DDown 7:	Not the feature film villain's footwear?
DDown 8:	Go before it and be lost
DDown 14:	Drink and jam gets journalist censored
DDown 15:	What's wrong with ensign wrapping up well?
DDown 17:	Finished going round river track somewhere in France	DORDOGNE
DDown 18:	It makes Art roar out after bank's No 3 teller
DDown 20:	Predators showing quiet craft
DDown 21:	Fictional detective's temperature dropped, denoting a fast day
DDown 22:	Sooty's spouts
DDown 23:	Boastful manner of resident rid of split lease