The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 21st December 2017

There are 13 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 21st December 2017. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 4:	Senior officer I covered with dirt-like slimy stuff
AAcross 6:	Hybrid child receiving letter from Athens
AAcross 9:	Want the French to be annoying
AAcross 10:	Is like "running water", infiltrating bogus food item
AAcross 10:	Is like "running water", infiltrating bogus food item
AAcross 11:	Musician to make off with most of capital
AAcross 15:	Not beginning to flag pain
AAcross 17:	Get rid of bouncer and hawker
AAcross 18:	Time to wake up, accepting Flynn's cross-dressing persona	TROUSERROLE
AAcross 22:	Put at risk, adopting a system of measurement
AAcross 23:	Half of hair lotion put around part of London	BALHAM
AAcross 24:	Very devout, hot and reportedly sour
AAcross 25:	Socialist revolutionary eating pub lunch
DDown 1:	Rising operettist excising an intestinal growth
DDown 2:	They expose limbs, given sweets — is drink included?
DDown 3:	Womaniser reluctant to go to a South American city …
DDown 4:	… or mental (crazy) North American one
DDown 5:	Gap between outstanding features of holiday mostly in prison
DDown 7:	A vote for German 10, or Greek hero
DDown 8:	Dance to cast a lustful eye over
DDown 12:	Colourless church with scent outside
DDown 13:	Work hard to penetrate punctuation mark by which publisher may be recognised
DDown 14:	Radish top getting into cooking vessel results in severe cold
DDown 16:	Pause for popular insect with no bottom
DDown 19:	I adore getting drunk with member of band's crew
DDown 20:	Old friends bringing equipment to hospital
DDown 21:	Aquatic animal losing month's work