The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 25th September 2009

There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 25th September 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Before "heavy" singer loses central mass, turn over astronomer
AAcross 5:	Cup-carrying individual's introduction to nurse in liquor store
AAcross 10:	Emperor gets around shaving more on the right than the left
AAcross 11:	Tight young women — we might as well have been a mile away	NEARMISSES
AAcross 12:	Having liquorice to cook with her — an extraordinary dish!
AAcross 13:	See 12
AAcross 14:	Promise in future to have long boxed details of TV programme
AAcross 16:	See 14
AAcross 17:	Harden case having got supply, inhaling H
AAcross 19:	See 17	THEDRAGON
AAcross 23:	Most bachelors need a varied source of personal morning reading
AAcross 24:	See 23
AAcross 26:	Use a cuff, eh? Mad, she drives me
AAcross 27:	Fur supplier has head shaved precisely
AAcross 28:	Suppose the answer isn't "a positive Hell"?
AAcross 29:	Southern comic getting a bung
DDown 2:	Air-raid shelter impressing oriental boss shut outside!
DDown 3:	Joely Richardson's giving up the theatre
DDown 4:	Compiler's cover for "Listener" — or I'm a Dutchman
DDown 6:	Spanish chap welcoming a couple of brothers in
DDown 7:	Measure from Rio, say, gives excellent analysis by statistician …	BOSSANOVA
DDown 8:	… and others describing source of riches that is forbidden for ever
DDown 9:	Is this why people hang out at the Comedy Club?	GALLOWSHUMOUR
DDown 15:	It'll dry moist places with little adjustment at last to seal you in
DDown 15:	It'll dry moist places with little adjustment at last to seal you in
DDown 18:	Unbeliever put chicken in microwave?
DDown 20:	Fool, say, with hair put up
DDown 21:	So the enemy's winning nothing — area's within limit
DDown 22:	Egghead's departing in vessel
DDown 25:	Play partly over — misbehave