The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 13th December 2013

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 13th December 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Fruit is dear — women led off …
AAcross 10:	… to shop around, with little time for critical remark
AAcross 11:	Hotel in Canning person finds less gross
AAcross 12:	Small girl nearly returned fruit
AAcross 13:	Second XI has one chap that's good for an evening out
AAcross 14:	Bother reaching last of tomato sauce
AAcross 16:	Like PDFs, can be speedily run off first?
AAcross 18:	The answer when fish swallows snake? Making a run for it
AAcross 19:	Arrived and left in a biplane
AAcross 20:	Function without garden implements — hard thing for 8 part 2 to accomplish?
AAcross 23:	Jars of fruit
AAcross 24:	Address for Turkish man, if prime of figs need re-ordering
AAcross 25:	One setter's into fruit!
AAcross 26:	A number down fruit squash, ultimately getting sick	BLUEBERRYHILL
DDown 2:	Making pie, I'd most bananas made best use of
DDown 3:	Spirit found in a set sweet hospital provides
DDown 4:	Sees fruit cooked instead?
DDown 5:	Dying to be thin, I grew monstrously
DDown 6:	Cryptic crossword started after setter drinks gin served up at lunchtime
DDown 7:	One who has oranges with "navels", eaten regularly for starters
DDown 8:	Parish people annoyed about Liberal toady
DDown 9:	What some brides wear, fixed on large bosoms	ORANGEBLOSSOM
DDown 15:	Order is one half-quince? Respect!
DDown 16:	Like 19 and 23, eating it with 4 is uncivilised
DDown 17:	It'd be a big surprise, dropping this stunning woman
DDown 21:	Waste a bit of fruit loaf, sadly
DDown 22:	One rousing game sees opener dismissed for 8 part 1? If so, it could be Jonathan
DDown 23:	Farm producing a batch of Andorran cherries