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The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Wednesday, 4th November 2009
There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 4th November 2009. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Plant — wrong term for scented root — added by one who served under 25
AAcross 5: Western town's story about a beast
AAcross 9: Relation covered in water or ink
AAcross 10: Sheer compulsion is what supplies water to waterfallMAINFORCE
AAcross 11: See 1 downWORSTENEMY
AAcross 12: Addition to passport not altogether advisable
AAcross 14: Nobleman with sword protecting queen from stub
AAcross 18: Queen at home for some drinks — at home to one who served under 25
AAcross 21: Prelapsarian journey?
AAcross 22: "Home when all initiative falters" (18, when told "1 across 7 is 1 down 11")NOTWHILEIM
AAcross 25: Ben following his follower in small volume by writer and painter
AAcross 26: See 22
AAcross 27: Writer takes to painting — his first is in 23PENARTH
AAcross 28: Queen's authority would see ghost if political correctness were exchanged
DDown 1: Greeting broadcast to back row at gunpoint — setter's chiefly got himself to blameHISOWN
DDown 2: Journalist's piece about wine
DDown 3: Provide flexibility for cities confused after disposal arises
DDown 4: Athenian name and French one? It's the other way round
DDown 5: 2 of light to test 4 — it keeps cropping up
DDown 6: Valley of the lute?
DDown 7: See 1 across
DDown 8: Advice to games players on confrontational features?
DDown 13: How we see health food — silver put into nickel (twice)BRANDIMAGE
DDown 15: Being no scholar, three pieces of Ban Ki-Moon follow his body — don't tell anyone!
DDown 16: Toadstool for hanging judge?
DDown 17: Viv Richards is opposed to a breaking shooter
DDown 19: See 22HEAINT
DDown 20: Bilingual acknowledgement of paternity in a measure
DDown 23: Monsters out of hospital go to fatherland
DDown 24: Trauma over borough?