The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 7th October 2008

There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 7th October 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Pain conveyed to the audience by playwright	AYCKBOURN
AAcross 6:	Can move around
AAcross 8:	Old woman takes lift from time to time
AAcross 9:	Risk going out with extremely tiddly girl	KIRSTY
AAcross 10:	Writer holding court in a study regularly	ATWOOD
AAcross 11:	Apparatus signalling abuse of a steroid
AAcross 12:	Superior rating given to the "Black Horse"
AAcross 15:	One with a big gob, perhaps, ordered pints when excessively drunk
AAcross 16:	Fish with spinning flies somewhere in Lancashire	GARSTANG
AAcross 19:	Tuck into pudding at hermitage
AAcross 21:	Probably halfasleep, a yokel isn't stirring	ASLIKELY
AAcross 22:	Setter's a dog - a point to challenge?
AAcross 24:	Number one tube network in old city
AAcross 25:	See 7
AAcross 26:	See 3
AAcross 27:	I'm a cement mixer that's been given the chop
DDown 1:	See 21	ASNOT
DDown 2:	Forgive prisoner that's cheated
DDown 3:	Hippy woman lit up
DDown 4:	Displays frisky fun in online locations?
DDown 5:	Seriously, it's what nanny's done if young ones don't show up	NOKIDDING
DDown 6:	Deal with irritated solicitor's report
DDown 7:	Hippest chocolate spread outside Italy? Need you ask?	ISTHEPOPE
DDown 13:	Bread-and-water restaurant
DDown 14:	Caught odd instrumental set piece?
DDown 17:	Timothy follows this around in a biblical wood
DDown 18:	Okaying chart-topper for the King, reworked by Elton John?	GAYICON
DDown 20:	First-class hotel ruined as rising river breaks in
DDown 22:	See 3	INTHE
DDown 23:	Sparkle briefly during eight-nil going over