The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 29th March 2011

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 29th March 2011. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Starting for club and a fight? About time! I'll get you a taxi	CABTOUT
AAcross 5:	Bird of the quickest relative speed
AAcross 9:	Oratory fought fight, beat beast, missing bus at random	THEGIFTOFTHEGAB
AAcross 10:	Head of operations with a knowledge of wood
AAcross 11:	Half a pint?
AAcross 12:	Mexican actor on day one away from insurgent body	MONTALBAN
AAcross 14:	Poor quality drinking water in river
AAcross 15:	Smith's fake
AAcross 16:	Grandma's shot at milk producer
AAcross 18:	React badly in a number of fruit
AAcross 21:	Explorer's name and number for unfinished course	VASCO
AAcross 22:	Auxiliaries inland, first to call
AAcross 23:	Sea, it's said, as religious article
AAcross 24:	Changed agreement performed as reported
DDown 1:	Copper couple with jolly caterpillar
DDown 2:	Doing better than before in destruction of 78s?	BREAKINGRECORDS
DDown 3:	You get nothing for nothing in French pictures to align
DDown 4:	Arch-emperor?
DDown 5:	Unofficial thumping for most of party in Ireland (Northern)	KOFIANNAN
DDown 6:	Where some African countries are off the leash	SAHEL
DDown 7:	Teased Tory leader to provoke left-wing philanthropist	RAGGEDTROUSERED
DDown 8:	Free range item cooked by litre
DDown 13:	Unofficial financiers, one body	BANKIMOON
DDown 14:	Unofficial effort to prove missing one false?
DDown 15:	Cooler part of house, say, for extreme enthusiast
DDown 17:	Couple looked unlike Cyclops	TWOEYED
DDown 19:	A bit of 8 first line of defence
DDown 20:	Life in Rome after English musical	EVITA