The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 24th August 2012

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 24th August 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Musicians providing accompaniment to muck?
AAcross 4:	See 10
AAcross 8:	Artist adopting mongrel pup or green bird
AAcross 10:	Furious or thirsty as a result of 24?
AAcross 11:	On your bike with a tungsten stiletto, maybe?
AAcross 12:	Trace second woman smuggling one part of Bible
AAcross 15:	Hat put on head of Canadian subject
AAcross 17:	Called on electronic spectrum
AAcross 18:	Season to compete with leader coming last in Q&A session
AAcross 19:	Light reading facilitator
AAcross 21:	Game keeping female paragon neither up nor down
AAcross 24:	Glum economist (post-8) reconstructing trade union home
AAcross 25:	Happened to be killed in battle
AAcross 26:	Dull but costly recipe included
DDown 1:	Event proves Spooner's anxious and penniless?
DDown 2:	Topless African securing watering hole for newt, perhaps
DDown 3:	Seaman's afterthought about mackerel-catcher?
DDown 4:	Remote 2 introducing female to male singer? Not exactly	FARINELLI
DDown 5:	Help to get a flutter?
DDown 6:	Outweigh hot art's turning point
DDown 6:	Outweigh hot art's turning point
DDown 7:	Erect or flatten, reportedly
DDown 9:	Unenthusiastic worker, one nabbing philosopher reversing direction
DDown 13:	Writer's material impounded by consort returning to camp	TREBLINKA
DDown 14:	Air Force's target — Eastern ruler's lambskin?
DDown 16:	Peculiarly peculiar time for origami, say
DDown 20:	Lachrymose character getting gong first in return
DDown 22:	Celebrated like Beethoven upholding Mozart's first
DDown 23:	Kind of blue, having got a very low score