The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 14th September 2021

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 14th September 2021. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Cut short series of performances by contralto in gallery
AAcross 5:	Preserve business degree in wooden frame
AAcross 9:	Former pupil's recovery is uncertain
AAcross 10:	Being practical, puts forward close working style
AAcross 11:	Examine gold divided into three crowns
AAcross 12:	Initial advantage given in race that reads badly
AAcross 13:	Mistaken for a monster, outspoken scientist drops initial interest
AAcross 17:	Dim Tuscan cop gets busted — one might joke about it	STANDUPCOMIC
AAcross 20:	Oath sworn by president once got deleted from the record
AAcross 22:	Rulers erased the central elements, providing means of control
AAcross 23:	Proceeds cautiously as model returns, embracing unconventional poet
AAcross 24:	Promote rebel after American intervention
AAcross 25:	Long boring speech illustrating singular belief …
AAcross 26:	… which helps heel get into Oxford, perhaps
DDown 1:	Cromwell, for example, shot a revolutionary when holding mass
DDown 2:	Advantage gained by leading team
DDown 3:	Came back with European socialist support for census
DDown 4:	Cook ignites the pan, creating minor problems	TEETHINGPAINS
DDown 6:	Take away sign created by head of McDonald's in America
DDown 7:	Idiot reportedly prosecutes moderates
DDown 8:	Single theatrical award shows lack of diversity
DDown 10:	Troubled over Anne visiting moor — it's the perfect place	HEAVENONEARTH
DDown 14:	Form of art devoured by spry elderly setter?
DDown 15:	Old civil orders to detain criminal set producing toxin
DDown 16:	Seed carried in rickety barge — one making lots of noise!
DDown 18:	Like part of anecdote Kathy put up
DDown 19:	Composer spoken of as 'performance god'
DDown 21:	Express strong feeling, using term Goethe oddly rejected