The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 24th October 2002

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 24th October 2002. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Jolly good fellow interrupted by lush, it may be, of which 25 is wished	BRITISHLUCK
AAcross 9:	Try a salute with silver in the house
AAcross 10:	Everything in the present is likely to go up
AAcross 11:	Tending to tend towards victory fed by broken rules
AAcross 12:	Knife used in kitchen, say?
AAcross 13:	Look for man with turban, say?
AAcross 14:	Grey holds container turning oil to custard
AAcross 16:	C 24 - auctions in trouble
AAcross 19:	Shoes for horses? On the contrary
AAcross 21:	When a Sikh has an honoured place among Hindus	NASIK
AAcross 22:	Well content with favourite part, a classy number
AAcross 24:	See 25	AREFREE
AAcross 25:	Old city races hinge around wrongdoing by learner, I'm afraid, not being detained: love, for example, is nothing	THEBEST
AAcross 26:	Manually challenged, perhaps, with not enough people
AAcross 26:	Manually challenged, perhaps, with not enough people
DDown 1:	Singers from Yorkshire town caused one stress	BEVERLEYSISTERS
DDown 2:	Buccaneer having lost his head - and his rag
DDown 3:	Am I a Scots endearment for a West Indian climber in the Pacific?
DDown 4:	Dutch painter on rustic rostrum	HOBBEMA
DDown 5:	Turn oven up at cathedral? I wouldn't bet on it
DDown 6:	Suppresses non-task - he choked, possibly	KNOCKSONTHEHEAD
DDown 7:	See 25
DDown 8:	See 25	INLIFE
DDown 15:	Cowboy raised young creature on South African plateau
DDown 16:	Where there's a charge for a Scotsman in Greek
DDown 17:	Advance while the devil's on holiday
DDown 18:	Number for Venetian painter detailed in register
DDown 20:	Homework, as it were, comes round with German cotton
DDown 23:	Exhortation to study "The Maid of the Mountain"