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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 5th December 2012

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 5th December 2012. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 8: Jaunty, emergent person broadcasting
AAcross 9: See 2
AAcross 10: Platinum-coated vessel that is said to gain attention on the quiet
AAcross 11: Nuts queue hours (not OK socially) to catch premiere of major work of 22 across
AAcross 12: Waste fluid and Sweeney's foot dripping
AAcross 14: Bucket on TV bulb
AAcross 15: See 13INPARIS
AAcross 17: Setter's just the thing, having polished off ape
AAcross 20: City, central European situation, tops for perfumery ingredients
AAcross 22: Dark, sad, very oxygen-enriched creator of 4 26
AAcross 23: Unfussy as a consumer, Novello's put in one-off threatening surroundings
AAcross 24: See 21
AAcross 25: Force out? That's nice
AAcross 26: See 4
DDown 1: Scorer managed, in absentia, football team's home success
DDown 2: Strove in speech with moral excellence for US city
DDown 3: Has dances confined by eg square dance movement
DDown 4: Month spent with Dr Werewolf, whence 13 15?FROMTHE
DDown 5: Member employed to split the opposition?SWORDARM
DDown 6: Ham actor, losing lead, is put off love
DDown 7: Force Faith to eat hat (just the top)
DDown 13: 1's work could be, say, Warhol at the Louvre?ANAMERICAN
DDown 16: Rudimentary travelling to China on back of horse
DDown 18: Restraints of public transport around one third of the city
DDown 19: Has to undergo housing shock
DDown 21: Adder stretch standard from 1
DDown 22: Lives in blue abandon
DDown 24: God — soften sound!
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