The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 13th January 2009

There are 15 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 13th January 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Second class bank for liquidation?
AAcross 5:	Draws force to give self backing
AAcross 9:	Does woman have odd life on this?
AAcross 10:	Wed at start of last month with 10% off
AAcross 11:	Industry claiming no reform	COALMINING
AAcross 12:	In the Algarve by a long way round
AAcross 14:	Hit land? My goodness!	STRIKEALIGHT
AAcross 18:	Lose courage when disciplined - it's laid down
AAcross 21:	Much the greater part of what was nicked is returned
AAcross 22:	Spoken, not aloud
AAcross 25:	Bush perhaps began in excessive optimism
AAcross 26:	Cook of a sort
AAcross 27:	One is sent to Reform Chapel	SISTINE
AAcross 28:	Firm ground for the US in the twenties
AAcross 28:	Firm ground for the US in the twenties
DDown 1:	Halve a little over 28 part one
DDown 2:	Drunken seamen forced to clean the bottom
DDown 3:	Result of having falsely named one "fat" and "round"
DDown 4:	Sculptor takes perch home
DDown 5:	One's relations can be tedious
DDown 6:	Rage at what goes into the atmosphere
DDown 7:	A lighter version of lead compound
DDown 8:	Lad finds opening in Devon	SIDMOUTH
DDown 13:	Fruit of sin in the Spanish race?
DDown 15:	Brain addled with cryptic clue having no solution
DDown 16:	Wrestles furiously and gets very hot
DDown 17:	Tom starts in sport with Manx cat, an unusual creature
DDown 19:	Town in New York with a Cayuga Lake view
DDown 20:	With leader stepping down it indeed gets corrected
DDown 23:	Collect - there's nothing difficult about it
DDown 24:	Press turns up for seaweed