The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 24th February 2012

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 24th February 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Bringing up a storybook character round about ancient city, getting into trouble
AAcross 10:	Back door user to handle arrow, holding spearhead back
AAcross 11:	Pathetic character wanting women to heave
AAcross 12:	Such figures end in such a figure
AAcross 13:	Recorder thrust right into bum
AAcross 14:	Drinking place where bard reflected about tree
AAcross 16:	Roundhead boarding weary compiler's boat
AAcross 18:	Undistinguished home secured by blade	ONESTAR
AAcross 20:	Heroin embargo almost ruined part of Africa
AAcross 21:	Fat European straddling Germany, having lost crown
AAcross 23:	Max maintains love is a recurring theme
AAcross 24:	Welsh valley spoken of in Spanish city	RONDA
AAcross 25:	So 10 almost bypasses most of county town
AAcross 26:	ENO FAQs peed us off at one of their productions?	QUEENOFSPADES
DDown 2:	Utter cry of delight about lots of Cajun cooking
DDown 3:	Bend, hang and invert
DDown 4:	It's sweet of Republicans to keep banging drum
DDown 5:	Drunk carrying on with Bernstein number
DDown 6:	Dynamic corrosion infecting object
DDown 7:	Piscivore and outrageous queen
DDown 8:	Raised squadron leader, concerned with Children In Need, to adopt Mr Nazi's bully-boys?	STORMTROOPERS
DDown 9:	One singer left in county; another on drug amid unknowns	SHIRLEYBASSEY
DDown 15:	Favourite 20 once involving a death? RIP
DDown 17:	Screwed-up hero getting award from Little Englander?	EUROPHOBE
DDown 19:	Old party spot on time in former capital
DDown 20:	Documents about crazy Dane — or his problem?
DDown 22:	Name written in the water — French or Austrian poet?	LENAU
DDown 23:	Article on origins of troubled adolescent character