The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 26th August 2015

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 26th August 2015. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Fellow runs away from European prepared to sell his soul
AAcross 5:	Clumsy like Hollande's politics?
AAcross 9:	Show extravagant pictures from east — there'll be scoffing here
AAcross 11:	Gobbles up accompaniment for nuts
AAcross 12:	Deploying sarcasm etc? It's negative campaigning	SMEARTACTICS
AAcross 15:	Gong rings round part of orchestra
AAcross 16:	Dailies to set out to pen paper's conclusion in these
AAcross 18:	Loose woman rejected by respectable novelist
AAcross 19:	Abandon offspring when outspoken
AAcross 21:	Hones cryptic setting to produce brilliant display
AAcross 24:	Female's dressing outside of Dog and Duck
AAcross 25:	Upper seconds by alumni failing in avoiding alcohol
AAcross 26:	Just holding covers for literary chronicler	EVELYN
AAcross 27:	Climb on fairground's chief attraction?
DDown 1:	Cheers up, entertained by extremes of fame and fortune
DDown 2:	Where men go, but not in river	URAL
DDown 3:	I'm off, then I'm back for oriental furnishing
DDown 4:	Song by desert peoples contains constant affectation	AIRSANDGRACES
DDown 6:	Lab re-created a heart for a fish
DDown 7:	Refined schoolboy having one butt in
DDown 8:	Time to leave new US states and the other part of the country
DDown 10:	Sparkling stuff back in print, feature by magazine showing how to save Labour?	ASTITCHINTIME
DDown 13:	Hot dog prepared with English, fatty mishmash
DDown 14:	Group withdrawing pound before bank charge is levied here
DDown 14:	Group withdrawing pound before bank charge is levied here
DDown 17:	Nervous, tense rabbit close to anxiety
DDown 20:	Where money's deposited and left free of charge
DDown 22:	Independent publication's first old-fashioned spellers?
DDown 23:	Last year, contracted medical problem