The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 8th April 2009

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 8th April 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	It's said to get you cleaner
AAcross 5:	Stupid amount for Chinese dish
AAcross 9:	Spin puts paper against the general flow
AAcross 10:	The pictures came in reels
AAcross 12:	OK to work by ignoring the odds, which is odd!
AAcross 13:	Lid covering end of pipe certainly had now to avoid opening
AAcross 14:	Pretentiousness evident after Conservative given order: no reason to grumble	CANTCOMPLAIN
AAcross 18:	Actual place for further distribution
AAcross 21:	Mum, having wiped bottom on toilet paper, troubled as such, always going
AAcross 23:	’e was up to wear down
AAcross 24:	See 20
AAcross 25:	Sounds like important team needed for loading area
AAcross 26:	Delegate deposited in river
AAcross 27:	Narcotic proving gamble, with learner driver cutting strain when reversing
AAcross 27:	Narcotic proving gamble, with learner driver cutting strain when reversing
DDown 1:	Blue joke held to be brave
DDown 2:	Going part of the way, take us to nearby station	EUSTON
DDown 3:	Dividing line sees creative quarter obscured by cloud
DDown 4:	?	IHAVENTACLUE
DDown 6:	Murdoch to her last, as she was born?
DDown 7:	Went into power sport
DDown 8:	Unfortunately, I am short of bread, demanding saucer of milk?
DDown 11:	Prepare to be catty, say, as means of escape	GETOUTCLAUSE
DDown 15:	Convert polyester shifts
DDown 16:	Sit within dig, as suggested
DDown 17:	Overhead locker where witch secretes 6 letters from the grave
DDown 19:	See 21
DDown 20:	Soak outside toilet on plane, say, finding way through central London
DDown 22:	Something going on smooth tabletop