The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 10th December 2009

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 10th December 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	It's said to push between opposites
AAcross 5:	Great guy with guns at hand	GATSBY
AAcross 8:	Container containing pupil Tories at the Ritz?	CARLTON
AAcross 9:	Lawman and schoolman coming good about fake
AAcross 11:	Dressed, with mother around at little places like 19	MAINLINETERMINI
AAcross 12:	Hazard to sailors taken in when it's blowy
AAcross 13:	Strikers going round pit take a dip
AAcross 17:	See 26
AAcross 18:	A negative available presently
AAcross 18:	A negative available presently
AAcross 20:	Fountain tee shot smashed, in the President's words	STATEOFTHEUNION
AAcross 23:	A fool in face of modern technology?
AAcross 24:	Mystic symbol including the Ukrainian	RUTHENE
AAcross 25:	Almost every method is for good
AAcross 26:	Harem without a doubt (first and last and centre): come fly to chaos, keeping killer now endlessly in French and English church with cult work of the ’70s	ZENAND
DDown 2:	Forward in 10, diverted to the point
DDown 3:	Drum makes the English rebel against the French
DDown 4:	90-ton structure that doesn't exist?
DDown 5:	Soldier obtained leg of mutton
DDown 6:	See 26	THEARTOF
DDown 7:	One old Jewish king backed more modern faith
DDown 8:	Exposed to disrepute for having made mutual concessions
DDown 10:	See 26
DDown 14:	King attacked Hitler with love at last and some frequency
DDown 15:	Know big cat's name to be St Mungo	KENTIGERN
DDown 16:	Generate new drink
DDown 19:	American in school in London	EUSTON
DDown 21:	Report of what happened to Lucifer, the biggest in the world
DDown 22:	See 21