The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 18th February 2010

There are 31 across clues and 32 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 18th February 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Celebratory meal created by 25
AAcross 5:	Many more than one over the limit in 2010?	TENPAST
AAcross 7:	Senior trapped in auditorium's receptacle
AAcross 8:	Fearing losing capital, being a student?
AAcross 9:	Lost keys for Charlie's temporary refuge	SKYE
AAcross 9:	See 5
AAcross 10:	Not worthy of mutineer yanked aboard finally
AAcross 10:	Amusing my editor in place of exercise
AAcross 11:	Day is provided when retiring editor has had enough
AAcross 12:	Show key on large tree that produces keys
AAcross 12:	Having no children touched off divorce
AAcross 13:	Often at its start there was (in quotes) fruit twist
AAcross 13:	Finished around river, out of water
AAcross 15:	Capillary device on which pests get
AAcross 15:	Saviour working for liberty first and last in more ways than one
AAcross 16:	Cold sheltered housing live issue
AAcross 17:	How do you do without a round body?
AAcross 18:	"Dragon's Den" resident put-down exponent: "Small time stuff, consuming energy"
AAcross 18:	Guardian leader, one in black and white, not about to change
AAcross 19:	See 24
AAcross 20:	Buffalo Bill is performing — not bad
AAcross 21:	Head-turning, diminutive Ms Westwood roving Rue Gourmet	BONVIVEUR
AAcross 21:	Flower from space, reportedly
AAcross 22:	African country's lacking an alternative word for "froth"
AAcross 23:	Epstein left centre awfully cross
AAcross 24:	Computer-generated figure often tipping cart in river
AAcross 25:	A fir's function, metamorphosing a slug
AAcross 25:	Mother cat sounds 18 across in play
AAcross 26:	First year in university is performing extract from Mass
AAcross 27:	See 26	ELEISON
AAcross 28:	Getting on with tree at each end of library
DDown 1:	It stops well before king
DDown 1:	Giggler in the sand going off at high speed
DDown 2:	Python member speech that's unlikely to be about "The Meaning of Life"?
DDown 2:	See 1
DDown 3:	Cast off depression!
DDown 3:	Recipient of letter from bird (American)
DDown 4:	Dirty B movie, opening — and closing — in Rocky Ridge
DDown 4:	Silver was sorry to be having a grouch
DDown 5:	To die for, fancy (Foreign Office rejected) finish of nuclear sub?
DDown 5:	8's instincts are to be scared
DDown 6:	Woman as object, without independence
DDown 6:	Undiluted science fiction too elevated? One could be 1 down with it	NEATSFOOT
DDown 7:	Fairy accepting signal, say
DDown 8:	Recipient of letter: solver's to skip up first
DDown 11:	Thoroughly modern girl taking exercise by day, diminutive leggy thing
DDown 12:	Bob recruits new and old treasure-burier
DDown 14:	Pause after seeing this Central American currency
DDown 14:	When Grahame was a child and made off in wagons	DREAMDAYS
DDown 16:	Buttoned-up, notorious cavalry leader?
DDown 16:	Suggestion about benefit once topped
DDown 17:	Food mark seen on US numbered list?	HASHSIGN
DDown 17:	I wander around idly and, come Easter, run off
DDown 18:	The hat I said I'd eat? It isn't true
DDown 18:	The hat I said I'd eat? It isn't true
DDown 19:	Union out of the question for such a women's overseer?
DDown 20:	Saloon brawl leading to burial place
DDown 20:	Man retaining old signaller's letter on line causes computer problem
DDown 21:	Procure round tip of cochlear implant
DDown 22:	Top bird, perhaps, not top dog
DDown 23:	Timber trade
DDown 23:	Offshoot said to be blue
DDown 24:	Daughter taken off, girl following: there are the bare facts