The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 17th September 2003

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 17th September 2003. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Girl beaten, but by no means confounded
AAcross 10:	Not seldom met with in soft endearments
AAcross 11:	Tone down a paint
AAcross 12:	Dream of clergyman on lake
AAcross 13:	Contended for backing of French four
AAcross 14:	Direction taken by front vessel?
AAcross 15:	Having more relish, trite as it may seem
AAcross 17:	Bird which fawns?
AAcross 19:	Leave soldiers to start division in France
AAcross 22:	See the French one on low marsh ground
AAcross 23:	He is notoriously hard on former player
AAcross 24:	Secret container in a strange setting
AAcross 26:	Fix again part of state servant's retirement
AAcross 27:	Instrument to measure study in Hertfordshire	HARPENDEN
DDown 1:	Precious stone for refined girl?	CULTIVATEDPEARL
DDown 2:	Inoffensive weapon left in Nazi leader's possession
DDown 3:	Watery pigment?
DDown 4:	Bird finding warmth in river
DDown 5:	Worshipped by a party radical
DDown 6:	The opposite of talk
DDown 7:	Formality of leading performer at church
DDown 8:	Might Pinter later mean to become an MP?	ENTERPARLIAMENT
DDown 16:	Provoke girl to take part in strange rite
DDown 17:	One in a hundred may be a weed
DDown 18:	Retraction by friend in poem
DDown 20:	Reconstruction of Paris with energy wins commendation
DDown 21:	Market expression for a girl	MARTHA
DDown 25:	Boasted to the ship's company