The Guardian Cryptic Answers

Friday, 27th September 2013

There are 17 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 27th September 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Conservative leader punching riffraff, I read — heartless creature
AAcross 5:	"Spinner" translates as which meaning?
AAcross 9:	Plant digit on distance to encompass street
AAcross 10:	Highly strung cross-dresser?
AAcross 11:	"A vile secretion it isn't", hurriedly exclaimed?
AAcross 12:	Losing our screws behind middle of cabinet is shameful
AAcross 14:	Operation, why (lately) soft in voice
AAcross 15:	An allotment of cedar, but usually mayflower
AAcross 16:	Disgraced President Obama caught out touching Miss Universe on two fronts
AAcross 18:	Find swimmer swigging it on closure of boozer
AAcross 20:	Man of noble birth, yet gutless, getting personal in Oxford, say
AAcross 21:	Water, a drink that's not very strong
AAcross 24:	Lay to rest individual indefinite number managed to return
AAcross 25:	Ground-breaking invention carries rubbish, if secured
AAcross 26:	Figure holding painting back to get on vehicle
AAcross 27:	English college, drained of ale, recalled the king's dying moments?
AAcross 27:	English college, drained of ale, recalled the king's dying moments?
DDown 1:	One's carrier? Something more to say? It's a disease
DDown 2:	Detention somewhat like a trifle, say?
DDown 3:	To say it's landlocked is somewhat misleading?
DDown 4:	Run OK, ten stages negotiated, runner up?	GETONESSKATESON
DDown 5:	Contest won hands down?	WHEELBARROWRACE
DDown 6:	Natural phenomenon, magnificent quantity consuming river, one going on and on and on?	SEVERNBORE
DDown 7:	Settle on going into hiding under Iranian leadership
DDown 8:	Item often misplaced by good girls
DDown 13:	Misspell it, "Rumania" — a country
DDown 16:	See 5 across
DDown 17:	Cheer J loudly, but then ____, for the flowers
DDown 19:	Drink booked with 1 across 23, roughly speaking?
DDown 22:	A shade short, shake hands
DDown 23:	See 1 across

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