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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 2nd October 2009

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 2nd October 2009. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Insect after vegetables for Hamlet's slave
AAcross 5: Comic to be counted?
AAcross 5: Comic to be counted?
AAcross 9: Preserve carpenter (in a dream) and injure French invalidQUINCEMARMALADE
AAcross 10: Number in district where people fight
AAcross 11: Make heated and dry?
AAcross 12: Geordie resident perversely entertains Yorkshire leaderTYNESIDER
AAcross 14: Faked evidence of factory growth
AAcross 15: Holy man in charge of a kirk
AAcross 16: Cutter gripping clothes: what happens if he cuts his finger?
AAcross 18: Not kind of weather for Freud to be at home?
AAcross 21: Fiddle return of game
AAcross 22: Fund-raising event by Banbury's leading charactersBRINGANDBUYSALE
AAcross 23: Old 16 about good man, one with brains
AAcross 24: Some bowling by amateur to cover
DDown 1: Appetising, as in drink
DDown 2: Far from 7, with a preference — to imprison rotten cad KevinALIVEANDKICKING
DDown 3: One putting clock back arrives without carriage
DDown 4: Shy boy's instincts
DDown 5: More to pay for tea during boiling
DDown 6: Prize poster brought about considerable hostility
DDown 7: A tragic love in Deck 1, kidnapped by Scottish fiend, with no hope of revivalDEADASADOORNAIL
DDown 8: Setter drops in, keeping judge from monitor
DDown 13: Spotted snake's head at giant's village — inside was good enough
DDown 14: Columns arranged as fairies would do it?
DDown 15: Crumbly as chips?
DDown 17: Stranger in Dyfed starving and on his last legs
DDown 19: Good shots to point — will get to 50 in time
DDown 20: Both appreciation and disapprobation are forbidden
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