The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 3rd April 2014

There are 14 across clues and 12 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 3rd April 2014. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	C-in-C's talked about provider of light transport
AAcross 9:	A chap interrupting shuts up birds
AAcross 10:	Old city dons a source of chocolate liqueur
AAcross 11:	Confederate colonel with class
AAcross 12:	Hold talks about blocking cheap goods
AAcross 13:	Help — nothing's fair!
AAcross 14:	Housing team on site at fault
AAcross 16:	Catch folk wandering round area not fully prepared	ATHALFCOCK
AAcross 19:	Apple not main fruit
AAcross 20:	Presume more discriminating fellow's moving to the right
AAcross 21:	With them you relish acceptable risks, backing in small amounts	TASTEBUDS
AAcross 23:	Queen has to struggle, cutting navy back with less assurance
AAcross 24:	Statesman unfortunately known as "Nye", originally
AAcross 25:	Agency worker almost the last word in saucy humour
DDown 1:	On leaving dance, drunken serf hit monarch	CHARLESTHEFIRST
DDown 2:	New man on board not first family member
DDown 3:	Obsessive nurses talk up Italian fare
DDown 4:	Shoots gulls
DDown 5:	Pain in rear starts slowing down worker
DDown 6:	What the clumsy window-cleaner did on departure?	KICKEDTHEBUCKET
DDown 7:	Here remote scientists work, as satanists cope badly	SPACESTATIONS
DDown 8:	Currently why children write to Santa?	FORTHEPRESENT
DDown 15:	Gates may display this, a Latin platitude
DDown 17:	Scriptures give rise to anger in church faction
DDown 18:	Vehicle in Pedro's house a means of restoring motion?
DDown 22:	Cheer as Chronicle leader's cut