The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 20th May 2009

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 20th May 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Gym instruction by top man in place of games once
AAcross 4:	Woman taken back from Paris to a state capital
AAcross 9:	Where peace accords were reached, for some too slowly
AAcross 10:	Lively dance disheartened star of many epics
AAcross 11:	Pagans he initially abandoned in capital
AAcross 12:	Built as arranged around northern capital at one time
AAcross 13:	Unfortunately, Lima's a poor capital
AAcross 15:	Part of capital I reinvested, now replaced by euros
AAcross 16:	Capital of Mogul empire shown in diagram
AAcross 17:	Part of old European capital in south, getting colder
AAcross 21:	Capital invested by Russians during WW2
AAcross 22:	Bold man securing second billion in capital
AAcross 24:	D-day commander seen in state capital
AAcross 25:	Industriously, but not gently, creating capital in Asia	DILI
AAcross 26:	Poet's pronouncement for Commonwealth state's capital
AAcross 27:	Surgeon holding an obsolete kind of capital
DDown 1:	Old form of capital in Europe set aside
DDown 2:	King and queen over one bit of Scandinavian capital
DDown 3:	Capital is raised in form of a coin
DDown 5:	Flint artefact? More than one may be found in the soil
DDown 6:	European city that is, at least initially, indispensable
DDown 7:	Point in moon orbit, one with a reduced pull involved
DDown 8:	Excellent references I included, many being found herein	CAPITALCITIES
DDown 14:	Create bad upset, having released repressed emotions
DDown 16:	Kind of humour found in pupils' surroundings
DDown 18:	Decorator I nearly made crazy
DDown 19:	Pasta — Italian's finishing with a lot
DDown 20:	Pro entering work meeting ahead of time
DDown 23:	Signed agreement is overturned in Middle East city