The Guardian Quiptic Answers - Monday, 22nd May 2006

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Quiptic crossword on Monday, 22nd May 2006. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Paid for a bride's exotic, unusually shaped flower from Africa
AAcross 9:	Prepare to stir duck and rice dish
AAcross 10:	They visit cellars, getting tipsy
AAcross 11:	Over in Bergamo, I discussed language
AAcross 12:	I'm international mime artist, extremely versatile but unoriginal
AAcross 13:	Get near to volatile harmful substance
AAcross 14:	Jerks and dolts demanding change of leader
AAcross 15:	Hand over joint, but not Ecstasy
AAcross 17:	Try to run; it will make you fitter
AAcross 20:	Former cricket captain with terribly trying ego	TONYGREIG
AAcross 22:	Girl gets work in old county
AAcross 23:	Allied leaders start to ascertain, by degrees, where Montgomery is
AAcross 24:	Ariel is, perhaps, from Tel Aviv?
AAcross 25:	Popular novelist's written about origins of his association with great physicist
DDown 1:	Lawyer seen in pub with a writ's later made to look silly	BARRISTERATLAW
DDown 2:	More reliable? Not initially, being comparatively out of practice
DDown 3:	Meet actor struggling to deliver line
DDown 4:	Rising quietly and wandering aimlessly
DDown 5:	Criminal in court causing uproar
DDown 6:	Fidel talks about US detention camp
DDown 7:	Place is possibly unique
DDown 8:	Ms Jowell returns, exposing unsavoury business practice	ASSETSTRIPPING
DDown 14:	Minister is a knave to vacuously support improper war
DDown 16:	Attached to insect? That's sweet!
DDown 17:	The Spanish girl finally got free lift
DDown 18:	Doctor, single, originally hailing from part of Britain
DDown 19:	New Israeli composer	SALIERI
DDown 21:	Get hold of good tool