The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 9th March 2012

There are 12 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 9th March 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 4:	States circumvented by hasty retreat of gay character
AAcross 6:	Mutant 2 transmuted metal
AAcross 9:	Inquisitor wrecked Manx army jeep	JEREMY
AAcross 10:	Ecstatic about coiffure for prom
AAcross 11:	Monarch caught by his opponent on air
AAcross 15:	Discriminatory fifth-rankers catching seventh note
AAcross 17:	Eg fungus-scavenger initially multiplied by 20
AAcross 18:	Dance mistress and dissolute priest on the job
AAcross 22:	What Syrinx did in 8? Yielded!
AAcross 23:	Yob getting hold of New Order's 22 garment
AAcross 24:	Unfashionable subject's popular favourites
AAcross 25:	Polish writers wanting head of Polish painter
DDown 1:	See 9	PAXMAN
DDown 2:	Receivers receiving setter's payment, initially, in coins
DDown 3:	Bulb in lift lifted in house
DDown 4:	Terrorist (cyber-criminal) embracing leaders of Islamic jihad
DDown 5:	Pasquale, perhaps, cross-culturally cross-dressing, cold and dry
DDown 7:	One-trick artist's creation
DDown 8:	Yen to interrupt thousandth tall tale?
DDown 12:	Discouragement of French dramatist adopting recipe
DDown 13:	Feel bad about turning on gas in beleaguered economic area	EUROZONE
DDown 14:	Kind of ancient Roman people keeping half of 13 confused
DDown 16:	Hobby generating unearned income
DDown 19:	15 circle needing brains to crack this?
DDown 20:	Idle, maybe, being possessed of infinite riches
DDown 21:	Weasel docked in colonnade