The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 26th February 2013

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 26th February 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Sweet Spooner's to plunder headquarters
AAcross 9:	See 10
AAcross 10:	Sweet nothing, passion about right
AAcross 11:	Sweet Queen Elizabeth, perhaps, protecting herself, Elizabeth and daughter	SHERBETDIP
AAcross 12:	See 22
AAcross 14:	Done with credit? Then idle
AAcross 15:	Doctor meeting fate lacking in reserve
AAcross 17:	Special gift, flower, for support
AAcross 20:	Sweet to speak of brace and bit	PEARDROP
AAcross 22:	Sweet evidence of bull in china shop?
AAcross 23:	Bird hosting party let off, as sweet	COLABOTTLE
AAcross 24:	See 25
AAcross 25:	Carrying drugs primarily, a suspect not to be trusted popping sweet in mouth
AAcross 26:	Top bird nursing full stomach
AAcross 26:	Top bird nursing full stomach
DDown 1:	Above zero, oxygen and radium in frozen state
DDown 2:	You after vacated seat? This for a viewing restriction
DDown 3:	Great military leader, one driven to catch marine up
DDown 4:	Figure something happening in outskirts of Sydney
DDown 5:	Eye from Magdalene, Trinity and Clare — this area?	THEBACKS
DDown 6:	Burps, one coming up through taste for fine dining
DDown 7:	Discovery — vehicle on which Scott's setting out
DDown 13:	Cassius claims Van Gogh's surgical instrument possibly makes things tidy	CLEARSAWAY
DDown 16:	Work routine going up, strange being in plane
DDown 18:	Evil in punching nun
DDown 19:	Sound of rain at leaving an inscription in what provides the final tribute
DDown 21:	’E with oversized head in essence?
DDown 22:	Weak charge down, uranium dropped
DDown 24:	Christian partial to Hindi, ordained