The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 17th April 2008

There are 17 across clues and 12 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 17th April 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Clambers up to sign
AAcross 5:	Buckle isn't worn to show defiance
AAcross 9:	Decline to take the easy way
AAcross 10:	Alternative queue for Americans going to town?	UPLINE
AAcross 11:	Ponders initial loss by customs
AAcross 12:	Gaudy old pulpit traced by knowing worker
AAcross 13:	Token of love interrupting part of service: touching!
AAcross 14:	Settled to live as a theologian, bounded by eastern sea
AAcross 16:	Sailor is withering about passenger
AAcross 19:	A modicum of personal covering provided by the recess
AAcross 20:	Concealed weapon in jam, catching verbal row
AAcross 20:	Concealed weapon in jam, catching verbal row
AAcross 22:	Offend greatly at first and confess
AAcross 23:	Passionate desire to party in country interminably retreating
AAcross 24:	Wimp accepts success that's due to formal dress
AAcross 25:	Competently keeps back clutter in meeting
AAcross 26:	Bold lawyer with quirky grin
DDown 2:	Poor show? So do encores! Be careful what you say	CHOOSEONESWORDS
DDown 3:	Joins with beginners to learn in new kids' school
DDown 4:	Stays, as of old, for a drink
DDown 5:	Remarkably few real creature comforts
DDown 6:	River with unpleasant smell: note the course
DDown 7:	Squinting, start off with back lanes
DDown 8:	No Verne? No Tintin comic? No meddling!
DDown 15:	Jet flier?
DDown 17:	Held back from warning about globe
DDown 18:	Lines that complain bitterly at Method
DDown 21:	Cancel cleanup?
DDown 22:	Quarter taken in by the palmist's curl of the lip