The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 21st December 2010

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 21st December 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Where guitarist might pause to view navel area?
AAcross 5:	See 28	MOUTHIS
AAcross 9:	Not viewing odds, favour a team which is close to one's heart
AAcross 10:	Roughly speaking, was it the on-screen bone that ___, showing exhaustion?
AAcross 11:	See 28	MONEYWHERE
AAcross 12:	Circus performer shut up
AAcross 14:	Italian flight cut, can I change? Might this have stopped you?	VOLCANICASH
AAcross 18:	Plant needing shade put in vessel
AAcross 21:	Found in book, rare edible plant
AAcross 22:	Workers carry around a link, regularly, as record filed away?
AAcross 25:	Politician, one blasted as rookie
AAcross 26:	Serious plot
AAcross 27:	Treated with contempt, university squeezed, then abandoned
AAcross 28:	To support what one's said, eat bread or suck lolly?	PUTONES
DDown 1:	US city not entirely accepting south has a rotten atmosphere
DDown 2:	Guts, or heart lost in loved one
DDown 3:	State must block Venetian play, whatever happens
DDown 4:	Refuse to take line into attack, heading for home
DDown 5:	Bringing off crime, saint not I?
DDown 6:	It's the whole thing, you fool!
DDown 7:	Poet's written about English medical graduate
DDown 8:	Pilfer your secret
DDown 13:	Empty vehicle needing fresh oil, in power it's flown
DDown 15:	New sale man backed up over crumbling property under contract
DDown 16:	Force of nature brought to skin of frog, stuffing a fish
DDown 17:	Those looking to dress king in the emperor's new clothes?
DDown 19:	Get on with leading empire
DDown 20:	Break for depression
DDown 23:	Speedy boat turned up having caught nothing	TONUP
DDown 24:	See 28