The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 27th November 2008

There are 15 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 27th November 2008. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Coleridge's salt of the earth? Not exactly!	ANCIENTMARINER
AAcross 8:	Whence comes bread from Holland?	BREDA
AAcross 9:	A mother otter turns to take the biscuit
AAcross 11:	It's a blow having a collection to retire!
AAcross 11:	It's a blow having a collection to retire!
AAcross 12:	Obscure conversion to pound pieces
AAcross 13:	A politician I must follow as an excuse
AAcross 15:	Tramp wrapped in lots of papers holds lots of wine
AAcross 17:	Apologetic, having five to split rent
AAcross 20:	Watch this! Married in the middle of a row!
AAcross 21:	Record class gets smaller
AAcross 23:	Tranquillity, having lost a stone, becomes a complaint
AAcross 25:	Sailor goes to the opera with a pound, which is odd
AAcross 26:	Problems with silver half-groats
AAcross 27:	"No port" response could be the call
DDown 1:	Diplomat's wife in the morning gets fish on frock
DDown 2:	Escape from talk about the end of life
DDown 3:	The issue is me going round a country
DDown 4:	Mortgage for a police dog?
DDown 5:	Strange chap swallows ale and jellyfish
DDown 6:	Fairy-tale wood - I must go first
DDown 7:	Medium substance disturbs poet's calm
DDown 10:	It's sweet to make love together, lying perhaps on the table
DDown 10:	It's sweet to make love together, lying perhaps on the table
DDown 14:	I'm placed at liberty if open to accusation
DDown 16:	Domineering older woman with engagement to cancel
DDown 18:	"Man gone crazy" is my epithet
DDown 19:	Suddenly grasp card game in a makeshift shelter
DDown 22:	They can be played with old bones, but not new
DDown 24:	Hedge sparrows have such lips