The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 26th December 2019

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 26th December 2019. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Painting by eccentric Somalian	MONALISA
AAcross 9:	Imagine dense carbon transmuted into nitrogen
AAcross 10:	Tip from financial institution
AAcross 11:	Student gets top grade, enrolling in less busy cooking courses
AAcross 12:	The Spanish wait is over — it's safe to eat
AAcross 14:	Like the colour of an ape?
AAcross 16:	Delicate newspaper has smooth cover
AAcross 18:	10 + 100 + 1 + 50 follows special pattern
AAcross 21:	Government service ready with independence in writing
AAcross 23:	Doctors injecting drug, a thousand get hallucinations
AAcross 24:	Theresa's annoyed about revised version 22s
AAcross 26:	Female soldier's extremely regimental
AAcross 27:	The soul of Great North Run returns to Bury	ENURN
AAcross 28:	One bishop, perhaps
DDown 1:	'It smells nice in Sydney' (Englishman and his queen)
DDown 2:	Vehicle honked after bonnet's lifted
DDown 3:	Used, it's blown and finally discarded
DDown 4:	Liberal and Labour upset over working party item
DDown 5:	Advance up a mountain
DDown 6:	Down clue given cryptic revelation
DDown 7:	They take risks travelling outside end of slope
DDown 13:	Ask for help second time around: 1 + 5 divides 4?	BEGAFAVOUR
DDown 15:	Garfunkel's method
DDown 17:	Garland wrote in invisible ink
DDown 19:	Famous person playing god?
DDown 20:	License produced peace
DDown 22:	Rare accident involving exercise, one gathers
DDown 23:	Leave pudding? Gutted!
DDown 25:	Secret police admit fashionable offences
DDown 26:	Expression of annoyance when there's no tea