The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 23rd August 2010

There are 14 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 23rd August 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	A learner joins class that's strict
AAcross 5:	Mortality figures are a total write-off	DEADLOSS
AAcross 9:	Everyone is absorbed in the trial case
AAcross 10:	Refuse a stretcher
AAcross 11:	Becoming less friendly, drag warpaint out	DRAWINGAPART
AAcross 13:	Sappers in control of cavalry?
AAcross 14:	Setting for clips or decorations on a nobleman
AAcross 17:	One may feel wrongly persecuted because of it
AAcross 18:	Double act no longer seen
AAcross 20:	A challenging demand
AAcross 23:	A port, half an hour later, shows potency
AAcross 24:	Courtesy of the townsman
AAcross 25:	Extinguishes a candle flame and passes on	SNUFFSIT
AAcross 26:	Port required to finish university course	DIEPPE
DDown 2:	Unfasten the duck cage
DDown 3:	Country professor on staff gets first-class write-up
DDown 4:	General means to establish latitude
DDown 5:	An exact report of the "Three Blind Mice"?	DETAILEDACCOUNT
DDown 6:	Go really wild with "Pilgrim's Progress", for example
DDown 7:	A bulb may be a variety of tulip	LITUP
DDown 8:	The points of savage attacks
DDown 12:	One is apart, possibly result of marital trouble?
DDown 15:	As ordered, one goes in the artillery
DDown 16:	Swindle companies and acknowledges it
DDown 19:	One may be prone to use this, following inflation	AIRBED
DDown 21:	Scoring shot in billiards or from batting cricket side	INOFF
DDown 22:	Tread the stage