The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 22nd August 2014

There are 12 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 22nd August 2014. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 4:	Brown wading bird one missed initially? There he goes!
AAcross 6:	Underwear that is covered with fine flowers
AAcross 9:	Taking on leads for Heaton's indie band
AAcross 10:	Remarkable, as sheep but not goats may be
AAcross 11:	A moist Nigella?
AAcross 15:	Remark by Wilde, perhaps, on English livestock?
AAcross 17:	Queen held by another has time for French philosopher
AAcross 18:	Calumny? Snarl and ignore it
AAcross 22:	Isle's shrouded in darkness — it's a naval base
AAcross 23:	Tomfoolery? Not for heads of Civil Service
AAcross 24:	Uncommon sense about our treatment for emotional disorders
AAcross 25:	Bird that's born within West Bank city	HEBRON
DDown 1:	Carla goes round eastern sultanate
DDown 2:	Yielding ape or rigid rodent
DDown 3:	Plot to enclose land that's spoilt
DDown 4:	He is held up by more audacious viewer
DDown 5:	Saint taking Viagra, prepared to wander aimlessly in Scotland
DDown 7:	Unemployed member of comedy team
DDown 8:	Annoyed fly may be heard
DDown 12:	Manage a wedding centre, one in church
DDown 13:	Black Prince with more grey matter
DDown 14:	Is a substitute to tolerate wrongdoing?	STANDSIN
DDown 16:	Wine to accompany beef for pilot	REDBARON
DDown 19:	Attention-seeker with sailors in battle
DDown 20:	Artist employed in the mines	EMIN
DDown 21:	Dutch in Germany no closer to crime