The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 24th June 2015

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 24th June 2015. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	With vacuous smile, see dope
AAcross 4:	Lamb possibly filling pies, say, is tasty
AAcross 9:	A position to get behind shot?
AAcross 10:	Strikers here in game: the penalty area
AAcross 11:	Operations devised primarily to interrupt an explosion of impotence in gibbons, perhaps?
AAcross 13:	Arty with brains, terribly brilliant couple here?
AAcross 14:	Gone, a king long ago	OFFA
AAcross 16:	Vulgar couple beginning to lech from behind
AAcross 18:	One causing friction excluded in report of what's binding?
AAcross 21:	A Tory authoritarian in brute that may squeeze the life out of you?
AAcross 23:	Car, one in a hundred for trial
AAcross 24:	Small mammal contracted disease, unfortunately
AAcross 25:	Vain prince informally introduced to beauty
AAcross 26:	Scorer for European city
DDown 1:	Story with Ottoman commanders written up
DDown 2:	Evidently mortal god, communicating little
DDown 3:	Writer coming up with score for soap, perhaps?
DDown 5:	Formality a warning sign, where justice was rarely served
DDown 6:	An unfinished assignment as a mainstay
DDown 7:	Concisely written ultimately, French produce cracking poem
DDown 8:	Rank outsiders in Tunisia requiring some of the stadium to support team
DDown 12:	See 17
DDown 13:	Hoarding? William Shakespeare hoards nothing!
DDown 15:	Odd bits to unclip in box, like a cross
DDown 17:	Sex sounding as spurious, an event to be covered up
DDown 19:	Excitement, seeing America in a shortlist?
DDown 20:	Left and left again, lorry finally gets round
DDown 22:	Strap which comes down, by the sound of it?