The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 31st October 2003

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 31st October 2003. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Singer offering note in jazz music feature in same production	SEWINGMACHINES
AAcross 8:	Tidy the latter half of where one eats
AAcross 9:	See 27	THISDIST
AAcross 11:	Bow in Peking oddly during minor blast
AAcross 12:	Refuse sat festering in a refuse container
AAcross 13:	Yarn spun around about shows style
AAcross 15:	Bird's exact heart?
AAcross 17:	Might one be touching up the Queen on Christmas Day, perhaps?
AAcross 20:	Study having had face-lift?
AAcross 21:	US and Canada's row gets more odious
AAcross 23:	Where Napoleon Bonaparte delivered source of drug, having admitted the strain of office work
AAcross 25:	Graphical illustration of characters in Chapter 1
AAcross 26:	Dickensian pervert
AAcross 27:	US Civil War general's last words were foolishly apathetic and idle ... then shot instantly - thud!	THEYCOULDNTHIT
DDown 1:	Noted study (ho hum): pedestrian activity	SIGHTREADING
DDown 2:	Singularly I've been clumsy, so cry
DDown 3:	One proposing to the Queen of Jordan (unlikely man it's accepted)
DDown 4:	Little one goes into two, which goes into 1,100 - basic sort of division
DDown 5:	Musical no longer in vogue?
DDown 6:	People making fish fingers heading off to river
DDown 7:	A singer poorly with two new heads - it's catching
DDown 10:	See 27	ANELEPHANTAT
DDown 14:	Reluctant to admit Mick's crook: if he's easily admitted, call one!
DDown 16:	Good character and bad one about to ruin one
DDown 18:	Tempestuous Rent-a-Party?
DDown 19:	Financial centre almost entering tangible performance
DDown 22:	Getting claws out, non-starter, though in need of them?
DDown 24:	Setter may be hard at the end of the rainbow