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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 10th December 2010

There are 16 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 10th December 2010. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: The naval disaster in which Boatman is eaten by a whale?
AAcross 6: Takes in endless parodies
AAcross 8: Colleagues' inspiration: say barren block gone
AAcross 9: Winter footwear with metal inside — wow!
AAcross 10: Boatman's work is usually in the Mediterranean
AAcross 11: Costume formerly worn by oriental tart?
AAcross 12: What I should make, for my sins, at noon?
AAcross 15: Drops the shattered piece of a vessel
AAcross 16: Where, you might say, disk-breaking leads to sudden reversal?
AAcross 19: Hate for Guardian boss back on trial
AAcross 21: First entry in old book of songs about fish behind ship's stern mid-ocean!PSALMONE
AAcross 22: Divers use natural heat to remove water
AAcross 24: Droop like dead fish
AAcross 25: Boatman's report on whale found in the MediterraneanMALLORCA
AAcross 26: Sex kittens slipping an unreasonable extent in winter footwear
AAcross 27: Split up — admit mistake on reflection and give in
DDown 1: Wood-roasted char after lobster starter
DDown 2: A vain imposter? Creative prose wasted, perhaps
DDown 3: Pungent? Sour? That's about right
DDown 4: Poncho folded round centre pleat in place of layers
DDown 5: New leader chosen: Gordon's first in, then left out
DDown 6: Not in everyone's interest to market cod: could be left wanting?
DDown 7: Cod, sprats, flounder typically found at the seaside
DDown 13: Deadly sea creature runs amok, followed by silence as boat goes under
DDown 14: Naval nations exude water (yours and mine, say)SEAPOWERS
DDown 17: Floods spread sludge around Mile End
DDown 18: Vessel attending in the Mediterranean, perhaps French marine zone
DDown 20: Starting to embrace a lot more
DDown 20: Starting to embrace a lot more
DDown 22: What you need to do with a fish to take victory
DDown 23: Cruiser is abandoned, sunk, only to be seen again later
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