The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 5th February 2009

There are 17 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 5th February 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	One weighed down by scruples
AAcross 5:	Horse among mules out for run
AAcross 10:	Keen little prince
AAcross 11:	Where bank directors make their cuts
AAcross 11:	Where bank directors make their cuts
AAcross 12:	It's pretty to behold what Platonic friends discuss at leisure	LOVEIN
AAcross 13:	See 12
AAcross 14:	Edge of the tennis court?
AAcross 16:	Original trees at forest's end
AAcross 17:	Close blind
AAcross 19:	They have pockets for cigars and change
AAcross 23:	Very nasty food after fine cocktail
AAcross 24:	Exotic sacred trees
AAcross 26:	Badly arranged sailing in familiar sea
AAcross 27:	God's hybrid rose
AAcross 28:	Almost general tutorials
AAcross 29:	Swear word
DDown 2:	A Scottish couturier returns without mercury
DDown 3:	Fruit that's big in New York
DDown 4:	Where the government is on display?
DDown 6:	Central one of 28
DDown 7:	Confining a child, but not upstairs!
DDown 8:	Players and poets
DDown 9:	Singer's invention sounds like a drill
DDown 15:	Were these Marathon winners possibly Asian, then?	ATHENIANS
DDown 18:	Primary part of a monogram
DDown 20:	Translator of "The German Eating Fish"
DDown 21:	New directions signs for Channel
DDown 22:	Excellent wine in decline
DDown 25:	King had this one ambition