The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 5th November 2013

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 5th November 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Second-rate pre-watershed link
AAcross 4:	Old republic's sport one's gripped by
AAcross 9:	Wood-turning not hard to copy
AAcross 10:	Leisure or time initially wasted sitting on the fence?
AAcross 11:	Burn energy, conserving electrical resistance?
AAcross 12:	Broadcast treated people as an operatic creation
AAcross 13:	Current commercial opportunity meetings held here
AAcross 15:	Eagerly take slates back
AAcross 16:	Medical procedure having returned energy, have a spring in your step
AAcross 17:	Diamond version of 12
AAcross 21:	Large body: dieted desperately but no different
AAcross 22:	As my internal organs are firm on the inside, pay?
AAcross 24:	Worker with fair, tortuous folds covering muscle
AAcross 25:	Game requiring two cups and small weight
AAcross 26:	Nothing new, nothing old
AAcross 27:	Playing cello heartlessly to cat
DDown 1:	Tube of butter spread with end of knife
DDown 2:	Squeezing bum roughly, that is to permeate
DDown 3:	Hint of good associated with northern rogue
DDown 5:	Wonders at Zermatt housing fake
DDown 6:	Note modulating all nine periods
DDown 7:	To highly regard a national player was to impose a limit in the old days	RATECAP
DDown 8:	Oh, topper should be removed before loudly feeling up a pessimist	PROPHETOFDOOM
DDown 14:	Big city Persian, say, with gold-plated salver?
DDown 16:	Floating supporter quickly right away gets working
DDown 18:	Nuts impair delicate internal leads of the ear
DDown 19:	Drive home and go off Embankment
DDown 20:	Fix sort of case that's curtailed
DDown 23:	Classes of society recruited by state political faction