The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 2nd May 2008

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 2nd May 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Old Indian joining riots is secretly collaborating	INCAHOOTS
AAcross 6:	Talented Lib Dem, no longer the leader
AAcross 10:	Problem bedeviling undercover war reporter
AAcross 11:	Herb is added to meat stews?
AAcross 12:	A rebel, once head of mystical eastern community of scholars
AAcross 13:	Reduced the rent and prospered
AAcross 14:	Legal institutions risk causing alarmist panic	COURTSMARTIAL
AAcross 17:	Truman, initially experiencing choler, exploded a bomb of this kind
AAcross 21:	Part-time copper is in pain, having been slashed and cut
AAcross 22:	Kafka character's short existential statement about to give us the vapours
AAcross 24:	Iodine found in assorted unstable heavenly bodies
AAcross 25:	Sauce with fish making you fat?
AAcross 26:	Old fogey read the same thing again and again
AAcross 27:	Excavated old remains constructed of stone
DDown 1:	Diamonds shimmer in this performance	ICEDANCE
DDown 2:	Swan and rook overcome a reptile
DDown 3:	It's controversial, but a valuable secret	HIDDENTREASURE
DDown 4:	Spoilt, flash and wrongheaded	OFFBEAM
DDown 5:	Poe's ghost creeps shapelessly round the centre of Seattle
DDown 7:	EU can reverse support for reserve and net capital worth
DDown 8:	Moving gradually to lose a third of the old colliery
DDown 9:	Cocaine, crack and lithium finally ruin movie star
DDown 15:	Student, confused about the organisation of women, gets straightened out
DDown 16:	Exercised authority, power, plus inordinate desire, and then died
DDown 18:	Revolutionary cardinal imprisoned at Queen's address, perhaps for leftwing ideology
DDown 19:	Closures of once prosperous mines provoked one to take revenge
DDown 20:	The key, perhaps, is to gain ground
DDown 23:	I'm optimistic about this African city	MOPTI