The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 5th August 2009

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 5th August 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Initially an abstainer going round trees
AAcross 5:	Fabrications about remote battles
AAcross 10:	Wasn't a performer in "The African Queen"
AAcross 11:	Forward or circulating, drink coffee I make
AAcross 12:	Bow of sailing boat in outline
AAcross 13:	See 24
AAcross 14:	Hospital on the box which begins in Jerusalem	HOLBYCITY
AAcross 16:	Emphatic refusal of oxygen: "Enjoy!" was misconceived
AAcross 17:	Emphatic refusal, one for Blair: rule only when reformed	NOTON
AAcross 19:	See 17	YOURNELLY
AAcross 23:	Sound of water moved by what steers a lot of ships
AAcross 24:	Emphatic refusal where I might hope for some mourning	OVERMY
AAcross 26:	Gingerbread, good company, empty saloons here in America
AAcross 27:	See 16	JOSE
AAcross 28:	Putting gloss on news by a companion, one of the Greens
AAcross 29:	Abridgment of the first letter to Araucaria
DDown 2:	See 3	THINKSO
DDown 3:	Understated refusal: add "I'm not" for Cartesian inference?	IDONT
DDown 4:	Queer chappies lacking ecstasy for Lesbian
DDown 6:	One sort of letter said to indicate confession
DDown 7:	Table fork used in the soup?	FLATBROKE
DDown 8:	Valley and river of noble descent join up	RHONDDA
DDown 9:	Count about right: an idiot in bother just as always happens
DDown 15:	Literary present from box office with agreement to receive information
DDown 18:	Work keeping unhealthy early hours — it's wicked
DDown 20:	Height nought feet — not good to go up maintaining that
DDown 21:	Single payment to self-employed workers for half a season
DDown 22:	Where to treat one held in endless embrace
DDown 25:	In France I enter cup match backed by fool across the border