The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 2nd August 2019

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 2nd August 2019. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Maybe patches up Oxford's medieval road surface?
AAcross 5:	Women's work in underground river in Wales
AAcross 9:	Holy group? Such may be looking to the skies
AAcross 10:	Unhappy lord outside Parliament finally gives indication of imminent departure
AAcross 11:	One's snapped after being asked to do this	WATCHTHEBIRDIE
AAcross 13:	English team facing shoot-out ultimately making this?
AAcross 14:	One skilled in words banishing guilt and sin
AAcross 17:	Attempts to restrict naughty lesbians
AAcross 18:	Not all of you serve an exploitative type
AAcross 21:	Dependent on a number of elements!!! …
AAcross 23:	Time's against jockeys making gallops
AAcross 24:	Tricks of one who proved Fermat's last theorem
AAcross 25:	Fashion again using nasty polyester, not half poor
AAcross 26:	Mark gets caught, snitch in school
DDown 1:	Headgear for big characters
DDown 2:	Holiday region may be conjured up in … in a seabird's call
DDown 3:	Unsophisticated, seeing unexpected creature turning up in lake	LOTECH
DDown 4:	Special unit hides computer program in footwear!
DDown 5:	Answer to waterworks problem? I'd cure it, possibly
DDown 6:	Little boxes?
DDown 7:	Ruddy good place for writer to produce a detective story?	ASTUDYINSCARLET
DDown 8:	Penalty on account of bad ref I oft rue
DDown 12:	Freakish mare, the pet that has seven feet
DDown 15:	Ease of provision
DDown 16:	Buy a biography? Do something more interesting!	GETALIFE
DDown 19:	'Hang around, girl!', we say, in period of inactivity
DDown 20:	Gardener's feature in September to April months in Welsh location
DDown 22:	Queen, but not our Queen, is someone of original Finnish stock	ESTH