The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 2nd November 2001

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 2nd November 2001. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Where academics relax with copy of "The Predicament"
AAcross 4:	Strategy requiring force field
AAcross 9:	Workers' assembly's turned tail
AAcross 10:	Ministers' unlucky choice?	SHORTSTRAW
AAcross 11:	Quarter turn in the river
AAcross 12:	Mnemonist recalls legendary footballer and hard worker
AAcross 13:	Get a grip, seizing backside and doubling up
AAcross 15:	Largely unrefined filth
AAcross 16:	Censors wisecracks
AAcross 17:	A second volume about Stewart's sporting venue
AAcross 21:	Unremitting claptrap on the way in
AAcross 22:	Take time to feel at home
AAcross 24:	Minute investigator of comic prose
AAcross 25:	Cold, cold belly
AAcross 26:	Afterthought about material medical support
AAcross 27:	Twirl ponytail in the fireplace
DDown 1:	Support that's thoroughly clean holding copper up
DDown 2:	Turner's alternative to compost
DDown 3:	Mathematician drinking hogshead during Passover
DDown 5:	Learnt about capital growth
DDown 6:	Save revolutionary socialist from being massacred
DDown 7:	Rock 'n' roller to fall in, getting drilled
DDown 8:	Updating original sin in reasonable quantities
DDown 14:	Expert on wind securing silver
DDown 16:	Architect King George I kept in work
DDown 18:	Gemstone with 60% beryl content is pretty tough
DDown 19:	Also covered by partner's authorisation
DDown 20:	Quietly firing the incumbent
DDown 23:	Fabric that's fairly crass, but not entirely