The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 27th December 2013

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 27th December 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Press employee to have a half of real ale
AAcross 9:	Striking achievement of American flier returning to base
AAcross 10:	Gallery in New York, for example, unopened
AAcross 11:	Constitution's supporter supplied ruler with an agenda, for example
AAcross 12:	Seeker of proof getting nothing in maths wrong
AAcross 14:	Part of chore very onerous for people, without exception
AAcross 15:	Wordsmiths assembled work, in theory, so oddly
AAcross 17:	One with shattered nerves? Just the opposite
AAcross 20:	Endures being torpedoed by a submarine
AAcross 22:	Proposal to bring it back in satellite
AAcross 23:	State capital
AAcross 24:	Quest, the conclusions of which you can reject
AAcross 25:	British vessels in Scottish waters
AAcross 26:	Note added to novel Thoreau wrote
DDown 1:	Rhetorical device encountered once before in speech
DDown 2:	Religious leader as father figure, ultimately
DDown 3:	Lots of teachers in part of England cut
DDown 4:	Links good, when embraced by some forming unions
DDown 5:	Strange rite in earlier time a number regarded as ominous
DDown 6:	Part of problem — ploy men typically use
DDown 7:	Parties regularly selected, happening in place with bars
DDown 13:	Steep mountain presenting dire threat in early part of day
DDown 16:	Lack of care skin problem on head required
DDown 18:	Hoaxed over name, given stuff to swallow uncritically
DDown 19:	False alarm — it is related to war
DDown 21:	Hearing organ bishop in US city installed in neighbourhood
DDown 22:	Record time
DDown 24:	Outlaw or gangster? It depends on the initial case
DDown 24:	Outlaw or gangster? It depends on the initial case