The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 7th January 2010

There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 7th January 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	High-spirited in nature, be wild about kiss
AAcross 10:	Book by 2 4 having bad-tempered sound
AAcross 11:	Composer's proverbial ignorance
AAcross 12:	His Nobel honour ultimately excited this physicist
AAcross 13:	Collect opinions from son on piece of art
AAcross 14:	Exactly 50% of work of 2 4 in this country
AAcross 17:	Legal expert in no military outfit
AAcross 19:	One making a killing during prolonged squeeze
AAcross 20:	Yellow furniture made from noble metal, work of 2 4
AAcross 21:	See 10
AAcross 22:	A superior assistant
AAcross 24:	I'll be upset by nasty person endlessly defamatory as writer
AAcross 26:	See 20
AAcross 28:	Writer repeatedly included by lover, never neglected
AAcross 29:	In middle of a kingdom, cover tropical tree
DDown 1:	Part of speech in extremely short book
DDown 2:	One Roman emperor related to another
DDown 3:	Wrongly use a prison as way to influence behaviour
DDown 4:	British composer's village on Thames	BARNES
DDown 5:	Way to shorten list briefly added to 24 down in work of 2 4
DDown 6:	Performs parts in play
DDown 7:	First principle of medicine awfully hard on MO	DONOHARM
DDown 8:	Ruler needed for measurements, arguably
DDown 13:	One involved in funny business, yet often upstanding
DDown 15:	Like some amusing drama, can be strangely liberating
DDown 16:	Benefactor's name inscribed in entrance
DDown 18:	Be artful in novel form — this subject of 2 4 was
DDown 19:	French dance lesson in castle
DDown 22:	Influence on 2 4, who produced 3 and 27
DDown 23:	Pairs of drums — sailor turned up holding another
DDown 24:	Something to declare to court, or nothing
DDown 25:	Song from European to be first in audition
DDown 27:	So-called heroine of 18 in work of 22 down