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    The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 23rd December 2014

    There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 23rd December 2014. View the answers below..
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    Number# Clue Answer
    AAcross 1: Guardian's put through edited parody, being sorry?IBEGYOURPARDON
    AAcross 8: A range of Italian desserts
    AAcross 9: Mother, perhaps, is unable to do/does dressing
    AAcross 11: Back at university, London one, after writer's urge to act
    AAcross 12: Paint not thinly applied is gone in one second
    AAcross 13: Lining of coat's easily lost
    AAcross 15: Hertz clients taken out for some food
    AAcross 17: Showing admiration, Enigmatist is doing Mr Rusbridger's job!
    AAcross 20: Liking condition No 1 to become No 3
    AAcross 21: Feather-brain needs help to catch leggy bird
    AAcross 23: Unnecessarily wily fleeing rocks
    AAcross 25: Honey and lemon's first sipped by loathsome author
    AAcross 26: Not quite full backing for Queen and Country
    AAcross 27: Declaration from elocutionist who won crown, movingly taking in bowHOWNOWBROWNCOW
    DDown 1: One's opening is always repeated twiceISAYISAYISAY
    DDown 2: Nude dancing? Take a little Peter Pan out!
    DDown 3: Leader having dropped right down, scrutinises excuses rather!YESPLEASE
    DDown 4: Diabolical ruses employed to get around North Dakota, "The Altogether State"
    DDown 5: Quite esurient, rather like a 1962 Oscar winner?
    DDown 6: A low approach shot towards the hole, presumably to come second
    DDown 6: A low approach shot towards the hole, presumably to come second
    DDown 7: Such as XL and I zero in on nameless poetry
    DDown 10: Does such an attraction have no point? One, actually, for each sideGOALLESSDRAW
    DDown 14: Very posh, a woman's in Kent, say
    DDown 16: Rip centre of kitchen out today and fly!INTHEKNOW
    DDown 18: Pessimistic canon's portion of ground cabbage salad
    DDown 19: Arty male performer excited 70% of Sun readers
    DDown 22: Self-willed velocity witnessed in dash
    DDown 24: Correct reasoning traps soldier in mountain pass heading north
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