The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 8th January 2018

There are 16 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 8th January 2018. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Animal in a shopping centre turned round
AAcross 10:	Without preparation, extreme confusion surrounds Post Office
AAcross 10:	Without preparation, extreme confusion surrounds Post Office
AAcross 11:	Protection used before the French strike fundamentalist part of America
AAcross 12:	Relative enters sleepy land with person of no fixed abode
AAcross 13:	Polish punishments extremely severe!
AAcross 15:	Made box containing Europe's last old penny
AAcross 17:	Loosely state preference
AAcross 18:	Returned rotten fish
AAcross 20:	Area of swamp drained by expert
AAcross 22:	Beans, maybe, grown from sticky stuff found in sediment
AAcross 25:	Spouse in hospital visited by American musicians
AAcross 26:	Spot tail of largish New World mammal
AAcross 27:	"Satisfactory" secondary school getting Ofsted's fifth X at beginning of term
AAcross 30:	Popular report's shocking treatment for great thinker
AAcross 31:	Celebrity holding middle of musical instrument
DDown 1:	Float up and down round large shapeless mass
DDown 2:	A new boss upset surgeon
DDown 3:	Listened to chief with long hair
DDown 4:	Clergyman is always upset by "RIP"
DDown 5:	Still using second strategy, not Conservative
DDown 6:	Scribe has last word about a new university attended by relative
DDown 7:	In favour of rug design
DDown 8:	Bow out of second-rate finale
DDown 13:	Lard deal (with 50% off) is disastrous
DDown 14:	Spanish and English troops heard cry by very large swimmer
DDown 16:	First part of Dan Dare broadcast causing terror
DDown 19:	Huge creature found in shell of bizarre male insect?
DDown 21:	A tipsy mate restricting Rex to Italian liqueur
DDown 23:	Animals eating farmer's last cereal product
DDown 24:	Private clubs hidden in trees, oddly
DDown 26:	Lose balance, upsetting lager
DDown 28:	Lexicographer seeking to preserve minority language
DDown 29:	Black stuff found on top of Turkish dessert