The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 17th December 2013

There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 17th December 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	The first prize, it's mad
AAcross 10:	Chocolate bar shortened by company sweet discoverer
AAcross 11:	Veruca Salt's second to upset one discharging
AAcross 12:	Sweet chap's beginning to hand out bags
AAcross 13:	Queen to copy her speech rejected draft
AAcross 15:	Bullfighters ruptured, got up, finishing early
AAcross 17:	Film on Charlie's prized possession
AAcross 18:	So chapter is over
AAcross 20:	Animal in river?
AAcross 22:	Fudge leads to young Augustus Gloop saying sorry
AAcross 25:	Mostly with Charlie in European city
AAcross 26:	Got it in mouth back to front!
AAcross 27:	Those that follow notice chosen child in playground yard
AAcross 30:	Doctor's transport contracts head for delay
AAcross 31:	Bar and Mike Teavee's wrapper go around 11?
DDown 1:	See 31
DDown 2:	First person to be professional driver, after car sweets
DDown 3:	Second half of some freak's short list
DDown 4:	Conceals kinky sex with rest
DDown 5:	Doctor right about fungal disease
DDown 6:	Essentially, it's not about odd man — Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's musical song	TOODARNHOT
DDown 7:	Rewriting Roald Dahl's final piece for money
DDown 8:	Spoiled Violet Beauregarde's hollow sign of affection
DDown 13:	Place a 10-point tile on a square
DDown 14:	Like great food, no starter's great
DDown 16:	So work interrupted by Charlie Bucket
DDown 19:	Most blue, Charlie's in bed
DDown 21:	Quiet about sex, if turning up as Mr and Mrs?
DDown 23:	They hold winner, hiding in large packaging
DDown 24:	Endlessly spoke Willy Wonka's last parts, actor recalled
DDown 26:	See 8
DDown 28:	English books section declines
DDown 29:	Peasant's left out of frame featuring Buckets?