The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 12th December 2013

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 12th December 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Long odds of tango and cha-cha foes dancing together	AGHOST
AAcross 5:	See 10
AAcross 8:	Awful, stumbling hag on dance programme missing trick, you say?
AAcross 9:	Harass people involved in wrongdoing
AAcross 11:	Much to-do from zealotry at heart, on and on, using psychic powers on dead?	ALOTONONESPLATE
AAcross 12:	See 10
AAcross 13:	Communicate with those we miss, who bequeath £10?	LEAVEANOTE
AAcross 17:	It's not vital to get tipsy from potion	OFNOIMPORT
AAcross 18:	Seance appears really inexplicable at first but, as you say, it's a fabrication!
AAcross 20:	Blame the frost? He's upset about a Xmas bloom
AAcross 23:	Morse, perhaps, out in sound and vision
AAcross 24:	Hollowly beatify dead souls? From the start, let them be
AAcross 25:	Phantoms from below, heralded by sulphur
AAcross 26:	Number (one transcending 50) and one of its qualities
DDown 2:	’70s rock instrument used in Wales	GLAMORGAN
DDown 3:	Perhaps put Boatman in work — a lot of it!
DDown 4:	Back pointless meeting: the man is after nothing? That's a record	TRYTOHELP
DDown 5:	It returns the part the Church keeps
DDown 6:	French perhaps sing solver's one anthem
DDown 7:	Irrigation for Zimbabwe at last: an answer to prayers sent up
DDown 8:	Creepy ghoul eats beast, exploits socially unacceptable growth promoted here
DDown 10:	Solver taking on psychic sees, as might appear hazily, the power of subliminal suggestion	THEMEDIUMIS
DDown 14:	After victory, reconstruct (liberate outright)
DDown 15:	See 1	OFACHANCE
DDown 16:	Presented headless first, it's said, for the dead came back
DDown 19:	Soaring mountain road missing from visitant's haunt
DDown 21:	A historic drink at pub
DDown 22:	Potions said to cause livid hue