The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 9th December 2008

There are 15 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 9th December 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	"We turn for a short time from the topics of the day to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the 12, the 10, the 14, the g24 of ___ 11, the 16 and the 19 of ___ 28" (Macaulay, making the most of his length)
AAcross 5:	Shocking omission of "the plural of mou__e"
AAcross 9:	Bird on pole, no friend to our friend
AAcross 10:	Periodically new American island
AAcross 11:	In a trap? Repeat all but the last letters
AAcross 12:	Cocktail of drugs for liner
AAcross 14:	23 with a stone?
AAcross 18:	Fancy end with hard fact, not out of factory
AAcross 18:	Fancy end with hard fact, not out of factory
AAcross 21:	Be depressed about arrangement of 12's work
AAcross 22:	A very long way to the galaxy's boundaries, tossed around among storytellers	LIGHTYEARS
AAcross 25:	Monkey moving about on the up
AAcross 26:	The land across the sea shows when to see you
AAcross 27:	Indian writer's granny's eaten a fish	NARAYAN
AAcross 28:	Department store wrecked by half 11
DDown 1:	Forties cry that's on the up when winning first gold
DDown 2:	Had no choice with river entering cave
DDown 3:	The unconscious revelation of how fast the Queen goes after a pub	INNERSPACE
DDown 4:	Holds view that prevails	HASIT
DDown 5:	At first, ducks are playing in the well
DDown 6:	I'm unknown, as they say: I have a high life
DDown 7:	Big beasts dropping a subject with rounds in it
DDown 8:	Generalissimo with true twist of belt
DDown 13:	Balcony spattered with mud, but they are far from wet ...	MONDAYCLUB
DDown 15:	... far from that kind of Tory, holding Ulster in an exhausted state
DDown 16:	Jolly good Tory eating meat? Good!
DDown 17:	Commit patricide by one with binding attachment
DDown 19:	Ross's leader following his follower, mostly one that suffers
DDown 20:	Large fish for this bird?
DDown 23:	Dialectician providing hair fixer for men?
DDown 24:	Parrot on top of one of the Roses?