The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 31st July 2018

There are 12 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 31st July 2018. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 4:	Piece left in social system
AAcross 6:	Old rule initially in play?	ROMEOAND
AAcross 9:	Magic word, in principle, as esoteric
AAcross 10:	Popular old canary
AAcross 11:	First body, you might say, to tour northern French city	CARCASSONNE
AAcross 15:	Fix shower after showering without shower
AAcross 17:	Couplet about — six fewer than this?
AAcross 18:	Place and time to bag an old house
AAcross 22:	Setter noted patterns in reverse
AAcross 23:	See 6	JULIET
AAcross 24:	See 21
AAcross 25:	Basic food in drinking establishment for 2
DDown 1:	State with a petition in US city
DDown 2:	Bum seated, a fanatic about to perform
DDown 3:	Benefit in payment, evocative
DDown 4:	Primate and friar
DDown 5:	Where passengers accommodated cheaply in back of cars, fury among drivers?
DDown 7:	Host certainly not leggy?
DDown 8:	River, run
DDown 12:	New river in Asia designed for old flagship	SANTAMARIA
DDown 13:	Excellent punishment
DDown 14:	Will writer check schedule that's arisen?
DDown 16:	See 21
DDown 19:	Finish wiping bottom after an excess in sticky substance
DDown 20:	Comeuppance for Theresa May and a Conservative party
DDown 21:	6 23 etc to call up among banal and pathetic plays