The Guardian Quick Answers - Thursday, 22nd December 2005

There are 22 across clues and 22 down clues for the The Guardian Quick crossword on Thursday, 22nd December 2005. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	See 7	JUDYSHOW
AAcross 5:	Cut — piece of film
AAcross 5:	Medway town - hero of ...
AAcross 8:	... novel by 19 10
AAcross 9:	Tree — figure — aircraft
AAcross 9:	Opening
AAcross 10:	Skilled worker
AAcross 10:	See 19
AAcross 11:	Inlet north of Edinburgh
AAcross 11:	Separate
AAcross 13:	Send back into custody or bail
AAcross 13:	Mark by overheating
AAcross 14:	Medicine man
AAcross 15:	Civil
AAcross 16:	Senior churchman - bird
AAcross 17:	And that's regrettable	MORESTHEPITY
AAcross 18:	See 8
AAcross 19:	Yorkshire novelist
AAcross 20:	Tan (or an unsuccessful attempt at it)
AAcross 21:	Precise
AAcross 22:	Basis for new plant
AAcross 23:	Blowing strongly but unevenly
DDown 1:	Practical joke
DDown 1:	Person in charge of colony, prison etc
DDown 2:	Belief in two basic entities
DDown 2:	Group of words
DDown 3:	Sauce in Chinese cookery	SWEETANDSOUR
DDown 3:	Climb
DDown 4:	Speaker
DDown 4:	Thaw
DDown 6:	Device for concentrating light
DDown 6:	Aristocrat
DDown 7:	Knockabout puppet entertainment	PUNCHAND
DDown 7:	Grasping and exploitative
DDown 8:	Rumsfeld's comment on collateral damage	STUFFHAPPENS
DDown 12:	Pledges (often repeated!)
DDown 12:	Novel by 19 10	VILLETTE
DDown 14:	Needing food
DDown 15:	Marsh gas
DDown 15:	Cushion
DDown 16:	No help (anag) — antiseptic
DDown 17:	Roald, writer
DDown 18:	Swill
DDown 19:	Remain — support