The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 21st May 2003

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 21st May 2003. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Pig entertains lieutenant on a ship
AAcross 10:	Spare time right during cutback
AAcross 11:	See 23	SHILTON
AAcross 12:	Fizzy drink with pork and apple, perhaps, as drug source
AAcross 13:	See 21
AAcross 14:	Cut centre page out
AAcross 16:	As a substitute, one sent off before promotion
AAcross 17:	Training brought back in call for sporting event
AAcross 17:	Training brought back in call for sporting event
AAcross 19:	Nature's big, bad engine
AAcross 22:	'en party's pronounced language
AAcross 24:	Singer, one spotted holding note
AAcross 25:	Menace should carry ecstasy then
AAcross 26:	School detention for cocaine abuse?
AAcross 27:	Criminal skirting round prayer, beheaded
DDown 1:	For whom indulgent acts no problem!	CONSENTINGADULT
DDown 2:	"I spell wrong" is a grammatical omission
DDown 3:	Refuse the middle, say
DDown 4:	White boy finds nearest man in blue
DDown 5:	Cancer, for instance, is right in issue
DDown 6:	Missing excuse, hiding nothing, no fuss, so America to step down when dismantled?	WEAPONSOF
DDown 7:	A ploughman sounded a menace once
DDown 8:	See 6	MASSDESTRUCTION
DDown 15:	Once more fit out on vessel during search
DDown 17:	Some people sit in a sauna upside down to get clean
DDown 18:	Pizza topping doubly average having eaten seconds
DDown 20:	Paul's in the record business - "It's a Sin"
DDown 21:	Flower that's been laid into red bouquet
DDown 23:	Keeper of hotel safes, formerly