The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 18th August 2021

There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 18th August 2021. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Crime writer — one with wicked output
AAcross 6:	Flamboyant jumper worn by choice, oddly
AAcross 9:	Mushroom feast
AAcross 10:	Rover corporation's retaining a lawyer with personal hygiene issue
AAcross 11:	Credit petrol company over bioenergy reserve fund — ultimately, it's inward-looking
AAcross 13:	How's your father after little brother sent back cycle?
AAcross 15:	Insect breaking in to ferret's food store
AAcross 17:	Swedish on vacation love cycling to clear stuff away
AAcross 18:	First part of play has touching effect
AAcross 19:	Temporarily take refuge — appropriate for all to ring
AAcross 21:	Transport runs on iron railway
AAcross 22:	Ant ’n' Dec say really good jokes without cracking
AAcross 25:	Nurse fits in coil, say, rejecting all potential for breeding?	GENEPOOL
AAcross 26:	2 and 4 expressed as a 12	INLIEU
AAcross 28:	Suspended journalist on board
AAcross 29:	Perhaps Shearer offers this nose around German and Italian training for starters
DDown 2:	Make changes to help pair secure operation
DDown 3:	Essential items named before marriage (introductions to dating sites)
DDown 4:	Spill lime and soda over men returning to supply toilets
DDown 5:	Stuck-up doctor eating egg I cooked
DDown 6:	Travel about collecting papers
DDown 7:	Charlie joins a book club — he should know his way around
DDown 8:	Pugilist's complaint about shoulder, essentially — I'm afraid of boxing shame?
DDown 12:	See 2
DDown 14:	The topless ladies' man turned up with an ecclesiastical scholar
DDown 16:	Biden regularly on time visiting Conservative after no bad publicity
DDown 20:	Preen Oscar for university ball
DDown 23:	Put kilo on, occasionally full of fig pudding
DDown 24:	Court date leading to deal, maybe
DDown 27:	See 8