The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 18th August 2014

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 18th August 2014. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Burn slowly, soon beginning to turn to dust
AAcross 9:	You can count on it being at the top of a column
AAcross 10:	They support British artists
AAcross 11:	Fixed new date for back garden makeover
AAcross 12:	Way change of date may be expressed
AAcross 14:	It's very hard, yet maths revision is essential
AAcross 15:	Arch is rough cast on the outside
AAcross 17:	A way to be on a horse? Yes
AAcross 20:	Records where St Joan kept bees?
AAcross 22:	Religious book for a young lady — a student
AAcross 23:	Set tone with appropriate neckwear for college students
AAcross 24:	The idiot got left in a spot
AAcross 25:	Orange mashed up for a wild animal
AAcross 26:	Making ends meet for a sailor?
DDown 1:	Lover Romeo, at Juliet's end becomes distraught
DDown 2:	Shades of an ex-poet laureate, we hear
DDown 3:	Loved song and dance and colour
DDown 4:	A jolly girl's joining the fighting ships
DDown 5:	The beauty of justice
DDown 6:	Arousing songs?	DAWNCHORUS
DDown 7:	Not subjects needed at school?
DDown 13:	Close but brief contact
DDown 16:	Enjoys embracing one's rescuers
DDown 18:	Closing date for journalist's lifeless column
DDown 19:	Economise in vain
DDown 21:	Tear in distress, seen in one's eye
DDown 22:	One of the Rolling Stones?
DDown 24:	Cut the end of a weed