The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 25th August 2009

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 25th August 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Absolve old man in former sect heading east
AAcross 10:	Animals banding together is what leads to destruction
AAcross 11:	Reckoned 1 or 8, for example, was important
AAcross 12:	Epic, not totally true, perhaps, such as 1
AAcross 13:	Saint's blemish
AAcross 14:	Person suffering from 3? He's played badly, without energy
AAcross 16:	A bishop and saint contrived to avoid vice, maybe
AAcross 17:	Holy man given cover, protected by mother
AAcross 19:	Manifestations of lust rued by each involved
AAcross 22:	Occur as lapse into sin
AAcross 24:	Concentrates on removing head of church in sect	ESSENES
AAcross 25:	In demo, tersely, they dramatically express anger etc
AAcross 26:	Imperfect, perhaps — with a couple of 8, following part of 1
AAcross 27:	Finished with school, say, showed gluttony by having done this
DDown 1:	Movie in which covetousness is finally denounced
DDown 2:	Secures what's belonging to a part of church, we hear
DDown 3:	Opening hospital for mammal
DDown 4:	College named after sinner — that sounds sentimental
DDown 5:	Some head for place of worship
DDown 6:	Pray with chap after conversion, holding old scriptures
DDown 7:	Work out if urge is wrong
DDown 8:	Bad errors among today's clues and answers	SEVENDEADLYSINS
DDown 15:	Church's including former students in defamatory statements
DDown 17:	Person breaking one of 1, mounted on racehorse
DDown 18:	Misrepresent a very English saint in essay
DDown 20:	Locating envy, say, in begrudging guy, primarily
DDown 21:	Unusually honest player of 23 in 1	HESTON
DDown 23:	He led his race, but fell in sight of the finish