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The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Thursday, 2nd February 2012
There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 2nd February 2012. View the answers below..
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Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Old dictator gives a fig, when nudged, about count
AAcross 5: Indian sage that's been topped and crushed by child's mother
AAcross 9: Cathedral city lacks large, double height, freestyle rap instrument
AAcross 10: Protection of two "names" separately included in a cruise at sea
AAcross 11: Small folded paper sheets cover landed gentlemen, generally
AAcross 12: Old composer's chat, say, on the radio
AAcross 14: Race got up — a classic beautyENGLISHROSE
AAcross 18: Certain people have fun with Shakespearean drama, discreetlyTHESCOTTISH
AAcross 21: See 18
AAcross 22: Deprived community's song of work comes to nowt, sadly
AAcross 25: Make something of prisoners transported by lorry, it's said
AAcross 26: Foul's legal, if starting line's cut
AAcross 27: Top grade butter in lounge, somewhere in Wyoming
AAcross 28: Theatre director wants Rye converted for a location in The Sound of Music
DDown 1: Advice to ambitious young man — "get lost!"GOWEST
DDown 2: He assembled scores of shops round Nassau's east end
DDown 3: Here carbon emission produces disgust
DDown 4: Part of eye hospital instant? Here's a drink
DDown 5: Dictator forcing poor souls into a small car
DDown 6: See 9
DDown 7: Poet figure associated with New York's performing
DDown 8: City of Lincoln? Right — need to change
DDown 13: Those people crossing High Andes peaks triumph, taking a pictureTHEHAYWAIN
DDown 15: Lodge's The Usage, novel about love
DDown 16: Unusual element of "floaty" pi calculation
DDown 17: Old servant's not a giving type
DDown 19: See 4
DDown 20: Acting on the stage, so no need to call faultINPLAY
DDown 23: Unacceptable, going up or downNOTON
DDown 24: It's been split, the first half of dictionary?