The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 22nd December 2010

There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 22nd December 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Something clutched at, with the way unprepared to take half of us
AAcross 4:	As Scott's wretch would finally be with peacekeepers dismantling guns
AAcross 9:	Spur on first of parrots on perch
AAcross 10:	What the compere will do with stunted beast and how he's removed	RUNTHESHOW
AAcross 11:	Oddball wants to perform on dam
AAcross 12:	Perfect order, but not before bed
AAcross 13:	Fellows get credit for something soothing
AAcross 15:	Call children requiring transport
AAcross 16:	End of film out now? Cut!
AAcross 17:	(Making a commotion in bed?)
AAcross 21:	Shire rents?	HIRESOUT
AAcross 22:	Unexpectedly, he's leaving her on way to the country
AAcross 24:	Following little brother, boy takes it on nervously having entered illegally	BROKENINTO
AAcross 25:	Food is taken in by Lawrence
AAcross 26:	A miner's pick?
AAcross 27:	He reversed clamp around the bottom
DDown 1:	Scream coming from church under landslip
DDown 2:	Horseman's qualification
DDown 3:	Resolve to have some exercise
DDown 3:	Resolve to have some exercise
DDown 5:	Hoon improved by exercise? No chance!	NOHOPE
DDown 6:	After taking a turn, upset listener is liable to become infected
DDown 7:	Like 8, I long to be travelling with Georgia
DDown 8:	Locking up in vehicle, reacting strangely
DDown 14:	Keep word about government initially — it's potentially explosive!
DDown 16:	Readmit tipsy restaurant manager
DDown 18:	Turn a blind eye to scam fellow employed at the start
DDown 19:	Passed by, pleased to be moving
DDown 20:	Bob, a bachelor, carries little weight
DDown 23:	More than one spoke of Roger's plug on TV — two!