The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 2nd November 2009

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

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Scope for firm with a thousand to spend
AAcross 5:	Conceited boss?
AAcross 9:	They meet in the centre of the ring
AAcross 10:	Scattered once and never to get together again
AAcross 11:	A brass band plays so freely	WITHOUTSTRINGS
AAcross 13:	Repeat after some reflection
AAcross 14:	Safe in sordid foreign jail
AAcross 17:	Don't slacken when flying a kite?	KEEPITUP
AAcross 18:	Recklessly risk one's arm in Malaya?
AAcross 21:	The amateur plainness of our production
AAcross 23:	"Get in lane" order unfinished
AAcross 24:	It's perfectly right, for example, inside — all wrong outside
AAcross 25:	Understands mother's cutting back plants
AAcross 26:	Printer's measure newspapers with ruler
DDown 1:	A bit of a wag, even a joker maybe
DDown 2:	An everyday conclusion, say, in film	MIDNIGHTEXPRESS
DDown 3:	Get off for a match
DDown 4:	Grow something to eat
DDown 5:	Inferior position of some driving instructors
DDown 6:	Father uncouth teenager
DDown 7:	Perpetual figure in matrimonial disputes?	ETERNALTRIANGLE
DDown 8:	Attribute of the successful gear selector	DRESSSENSE
DDown 12:	Pack with no score in even game	DECKQUOITS
DDown 15:	Lion and mule in scuffle on the floor
DDown 16:	Grave commitments for NUR and ASLEF combined
DDown 19:	Come up with trial bearing on African fly
DDown 20:	A shapeless mass — something with which one may play and work
DDown 22:	Lake in rising resort in the mountains