The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 1st December 2011

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 1st December 2011. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	See 7
AAcross 9:	Previously ending in disaster, a foreign market here?
AAcross 10:	Party time, charge around
AAcross 11:	Little national insurance in advance, as ancient
AAcross 12:	River filling drier gardening tool
AAcross 14:	Asian controlled borders for European
AAcross 15:	See 3
AAcross 17:	See 2
AAcross 20:	Strain something to contend with, keeping solver's end up
AAcross 22:	Bird's fifty goals scored?
AAcross 23:	A bird cutting dead duck's head went this way, then that?
AAcross 24:	Queens here losing ground before gain
AAcross 25:	Hybrid and lakeside plant
AAcross 26:	See 6
DDown 1:	Spectacular ego, heart lost in the system
DDown 2:	Bank, say, most efficient at breaking out in depravity
DDown 3:	Worryingly precarious thing to package — Cameron's party pessimistic about it
DDown 4:	Leaves cold?
DDown 5:	Sweet singer turning up to plug rubbish — this is flat
DDown 6:	Fixed terms not concerning this 2 17	MORNINGTON
DDown 7:	Unstable state incapable, requiring urban development
DDown 13:	Those providing shelter from bats nipping unruly beard
DDown 16:	Steep incline, nearly always downhill for starters, horse on the outside
DDown 18:	Oxygen and another gas, oxygen and another gas, energy individually matched
DDown 19:	See 4
DDown 21:	See 24 across
DDown 22:	See 25
DDown 24:	Lap speed