The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 30th April 2009

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 30th April 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Time for wild party at swine's place? It's nothing like that!
AAcross 5:	Swine's flesh eaten by group that's sent back flower
AAcross 9:	Actor's reversal of purpose to produce swine	MIAFARROW
AAcross 11:	Red stickers need little internal change
AAcross 12:	What's resulting in cinders? I am
AAcross 15:	More work? That's clear to us in more than one case
AAcross 16:	Self-appointed police given tails for disguise
AAcross 18:	It's nice to go round the garden with a busy companion and not make decisions	BEECHHEDGE
AAcross 19:	Cheese is shorter than short
AAcross 21:	God etc off to the borders of heaven with picture that's for removal
AAcross 24:	Start of harmless shot at billiards	INOFF
AAcross 25:	Swine heard to master predator with mythical sculptor
AAcross 26:	Change diarist John's name's place in a regular way
AAcross 27:	Refuse to go back — that's a first
DDown 1:	See 15
DDown 2:	See 22
DDown 3:	The "Lily Maid" is in denial except when climbing	ELAINE
DDown 4:	After the endless dance I need a hip replacement: defy me at your peril!	THREELINEWHIP
DDown 6:	Homo sapiens chasing swine, a year's beginning — and end
DDown 7:	Semi-simultaneous disaster for Conservative at car park
DDown 8:	Opening word to selected player or oil producer
DDown 10:	Left 4, in digital terms, bothered Fringe after union takeover	WEDDINGFINGER
DDown 13:	Drink round through rip-off: it goes to the last
DDown 14:	Cut name for swine, say, that will rush up river	SEVERNBORE
DDown 17:	Rise of Free Church over turn to the left in good spirits
DDown 20:	Sphere in which to commit matricide
DDown 22:	Abandon with a stroke of the pen, for example: I'm like a rodent inside
DDown 23:	Precipitation is, for swine, about the end of it