The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 12th December 2011

There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 12th December 2011. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Depicting characters performing in play, or art
AAcross 6:	Frenchman in a grubby vest	YVES
AAcross 8:	People wanting a new landlord
AAcross 9:	Got close, earned review
AAcross 10:	Add pages in a final section?
AAcross 11:	Girl will entertain no alternative site for Hamlet	ELSINORE
AAcross 12:	Yet one may be at one's lowest on them
AAcross 15:	Lively parties given by mum in lodgings
AAcross 16:	Love in the air? Stick around for marriage
AAcross 19:	Gets satisfaction out of religious work
AAcross 21:	When people can look forward to retirement
AAcross 22:	Reasons for which people fight
AAcross 24:	Expert — for a doctor, nothing to it
AAcross 25:	Prepare for take-off?
AAcross 26:	Travel after star of film and TV
AAcross 27:	In some respect a clever presentation
DDown 1:	Fruit, soft and well-rounded
DDown 2:	King and two biblical characters free of duty
DDown 3:	Account being overdrawn, had to move fast
DDown 4:	Keen, say, to make bets	YANKEES
DDown 5:	What could make a party go with a swing
DDown 6:	Longed for time to take up study
DDown 7:	This military order looks fine	EYESRIGHT
DDown 13:	Dog under piano consumes remnant of food
DDown 14:	They may be found working in steamship at sea
DDown 17:	Used for hanging pirate captain on vessel?
DDown 18:	Greet us, perhaps, with a wave
DDown 20:	Acquit a drunk, now living on water
DDown 22:	A young animal has it in some measure
DDown 23:	Call up a woman, a case for approval