The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 8th June 2006

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 8th June 2006. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Schemer has design said to come to nothing	FIGARO
AAcross 4:	What they did to choose Matthias -- a saint among idiots?	CASTLOTS
AAcross 9:	With a muscular problem an athlete has little power
AAcross 10:	Journalist has bottom pinched by would-be lover
AAcross 11:	Go spare -- paid badly
AAcross 12:	Volume in Christmas wrapping could be a bestseller
AAcross 13:	Employee testing seafood quality possibly not an Oxford type	WINKLEPICKER
AAcross 17:	State what this, in short, might be? Shan't!
AAcross 20:	Name of man participating in the thanksgiving?	ETHAN
AAcross 21:	Most illustrious footballer of yesteryear -- outside right
AAcross 23:	Get cross sewing, issuing simple expression of annoyance	PLAINDARN
AAcross 24:	Rhetorical device in formal statement not right on reflection
AAcross 25:	Troubles in old area of land -- countryside's not flat here
AAcross 26:	See 14
DDown 1:	Overcome by aggressive action -- thus king and queen may be invisible
DDown 2:	Place where lawyers are heard to define a wrong in other than black-and-white terms?	GRAYSINN
DDown 3:	Toe of slipper -- one little dog gets shred
DDown 5:	Detective and policeman struggling with brat	ALBERTCAMPION
DDown 6:	Set meals	TVDINNERS
DDown 7:	Days of celebrating in wide street at end of month
DDown 8:	In a painful way, only changing sides about half way through
DDown 10:	Workers ultimately cry and chairman, MD et al get everything that's going	SWEEPTHEBOARD
DDown 14:	Situationally the uvula must be very deceptive	LIEINONES
DDown 15:	Let's now leave issue that's upsetting country	TIMETOGO
DDown 16:	Conscious of emotion when maiden's jilted
DDown 18:	High-protein food -- what office worker needed first
DDown 19:	Loveless god wanting everybody to be a slave
DDown 22:	Brood in straw etc beginning to fly off