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    The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 11th December 2014

    There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 11th December 2014. View the answers below..
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    Number# Clue Answer
    AAcross 1: 502 shillings invested in plant covered the wound
    AAcross 5: A flipping flat-bottomed vessel?
    AAcross 9: West Country town mine, its gold going west?FROME
    AAcross 10: River, one in West Country town — yes, yes, yes!
    AAcross 11: Hitter, jumper and flier
    AAcross 12: Policeman left inside whales
    AAcross 14: See 22NAMEISWOMAN
    AAcross 18: Harmless drunk missing wife, figure touring the bogs
    AAcross 21: Advantage held by landed gentry
    AAcross 22: Words from Hamlet confusing family with satyr in the West CountryFRAILTYTHY
    AAcross 25: Cryptically, what might one do with a Cornish pasty and where? That's bliss!
    AAcross 26: Abandoned ship's first to enter West Country town
    AAcross 27: Draw away from Land's End, England trailing rapidly away, Cornwall too, for starters
    AAcross 28: Greek character taking drug with the ability to say "sausages" backwards?
    DDown 1: Imperfection in desert
    DDown 2: Aphrodisiac — it's in the heart, rising
    DDown 3: Meat cutter that's fast and keen I suspect, cook finally put away
    DDown 4: Point about record store
    DDown 5: Opera coming over in doubly twisted old maestro
    DDown 6: Time in West China
    DDown 7: Retro lighter in the toilet resembling memberLAVALAMP
    DDown 8: Currently in office, office in further test
    DDown 13: In some parts of the plant, little troublemaker initially uses insincere praiseSWEETTALKS
    DDown 15: Beneath top of mainmast, cast-iron case for the quarterdeck, perhaps?
    DDown 16: Something dynamic, perhaps, in horribly dire wet bottom?
    DDown 17: Moving out of Paignton?
    DDown 19: Street, then turn for promenade
    DDown 20: Mythical flier, wacky with vulture and raven wings
    DDown 23: Byzantine empress turning up in TenerifeIRENE
    DDown 24: Not entirely green, a South American capital
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