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    The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 1st January 2015

    There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 1st January 2015. View the answers below..
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    Number# Clue Answer
    AAcross 9: Mate rounded Cape unnot­iced
    AAcross 10: They worship former Tory leader, full of lies or nonsense
    AAcross 11: Had better drug previously, it seemed to Arachne
    AAcross 12: Split from husband, heading off to give birth in cowshed
    AAcross 13: Grey matter with a laminated cover
    AAcross 15: Cold meal wrapped in foil
    AAcross 17: Date of road tax moving forward
    AAcross 18: Mo's audible nervous habit
    AAcross 20: Perfectly embodies the ultimate in courageous soldier material
    AAcross 22: Do successors occupy country, having ousted last PM?
    AAcross 25: Lure fish in a westerly direction and downwind
    AAcross 26: Show indifference and keep quiet, when confronted with wig
    AAcross 27: People who undermine subordinates slyly, but noiselessly
    AAcross 30: They went in search of sheepskin, as bottled gas ran out
    AAcross 31: Chat show host walks on water
    DDown 1: Buddy and Charlie don't know the words?
    DDown 2: Passing mention of sex in broken Yoruba
    DDown 3: Rookie Conservative, upside down and back to front
    DDown 4: Six ducks living on Scottish islands, one with more than one tongue
    DDown 5: Chemist stocks drug for stars
    DDown 6: Shadowy figure trashing hotel suite
    DDown 7: Friend tied knot round wattle
    DDown 8: American female tennis legend
    DDown 13: Ram's purpose, in sum
    DDown 14: Styptic band inserted into a temporary splint
    DDown 16: Esteemed journalist is buried under grass
    DDown 19: A centre for research into breadfruit
    DDown 21: You can count on these four Swedes swearing out loud
    DDown 23: Ends of Rice, Brown and Garner? Time for anger
    DDown 24: Hit squire near the knuckle
    DDown 26: Most of matchmaker's meeting with male went smoothly
    DDown 28: Booze off limits to birth control enthusiast
    DDown 29: Really big sizes are in the ascendant, OK?
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