The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 24th December 2008

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 24th December 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Sporting ploy of taking left back past first of strikers, if organised
AAcross 5:	Happy as the carpet beetle?	SNUGASA
AAcross 10:	A little wind from the rear, producing tune
AAcross 11:	Essay penned by school square, a killer
AAcross 12:	Put in little round object, old coin
AAcross 13:	French comic written in twelve symbols
AAcross 14:	Beginning to advance, a sharply shifting stream of charged particles	ALPHARAYS
AAcross 16:	Flying boats
AAcross 17:	How W-H-E-A-T is?
AAcross 19:	See 5	BUGINARUG
AAcross 23:	Flatter bottom, straight back!
AAcross 24:	Maybe solar power applied to car
AAcross 26:	Soaks approaching Arab with a serious drink problem
AAcross 27:	See 1
AAcross 28:	City light filled with gas, exploding
AAcross 29:	See 3
DDown 2:	Stray snatched up by young animal, certainly	FORREAL
DDown 3:	Doubly caddish musician?
DDown 4:	Is padre in disguise? Give up
DDown 6:	Detail of Germanic etymology
DDown 7:	Facts on nation, as they say, cobblers, say
DDown 8:	US city judge so upstanding, insane?
DDown 9:	Not entirely glorious state with short, fat person left out in relative abandonment	GRANNYDUMPING
DDown 15:	Scrabble sloth (ai) exists to create social problem
DDown 18:	Intimate about love, one appearing wet
DDown 20:	Find fault with constituency allocation?
DDown 21:	Wail in grief as South African executed, dead
DDown 22:	Messiah initially placed in manger getting nothing for his birthday!	CRIMBO
DDown 25:	Apple warmer, though not hot