The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 20th May 2010

There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 20th May 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Rose's part as old character
AAcross 10:	Preserve part of body a boy found in northeastern state
AAcross 11:	European politician on the left accepting nothing we authorised
AAcross 12:	Half-heartedly refrain from seasonal performance? That's unusual
AAcross 13:	Author's irritation about endless bias
AAcross 15:	Ie NATO's new country
AAcross 17:	12 by 13, 5 26 down, 26 across 27, or 9 plus 31, possibly
AAcross 18:	See 17
AAcross 20:	See 17
AAcross 22:	Is going back a long way for such rhetorical devices
AAcross 25:	International base where engines are checked
AAcross 26:	Cut back a radius in kind of circle
AAcross 27:	Come and go, say, in workplaces around river
AAcross 30:	A client I'd represented, lacking distinction?
AAcross 31:	Be quiet? Wrong
DDown 1:	This starts swelling, troubling your eye
DDown 2:	German, for example, like Berlin
DDown 3:	Experience no sound
DDown 4:	Arm with bullet, mostly arranged for protection
DDown 5:	Irishwoman cut part of nose
DDown 6:	Makes attractive new version of message in short time
DDown 7:	Religious leader producin' new bull, perhaps
DDown 8:	Prepared fir or pine to divide deck
DDown 13:	A lot of species of antelope seen round East
DDown 14:	Enliven with strange tale I hear about kiss
DDown 16:	Pest one introduced to a high degree
DDown 19:	Go out with friend, initially meeting under tree
DDown 21:	Release victim held in plebeian uprising
DDown 23:	Tropical novelist and playwright
DDown 24:	Put an end to place for rest of children in school
DDown 26:	Three, four, or five, say — over one or two
DDown 28:	Across a shoulder — that's where you'll find it
DDown 29:	Adjust temperature in animal's home