The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 4th November 2009

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 4th November 2009. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Plant — wrong term for scented root — added by one who served under 25
AAcross 5:	Western town's story about a beast
AAcross 9:	Relation covered in water or ink
AAcross 10:	Sheer compulsion is what supplies water to waterfall	MAINFORCE
AAcross 11:	See 1 down	WORSTENEMY
AAcross 12:	Addition to passport not altogether advisable
AAcross 14:	Nobleman with sword protecting queen from stub
AAcross 18:	Queen at home for some drinks — at home to one who served under 25
AAcross 21:	Prelapsarian journey?
AAcross 22:	"Home when all initiative falters" (18, when told "1 across 7 is 1 down 11")	NOTWHILEIM
AAcross 25:	Ben following his follower in small volume by writer and painter
AAcross 26:	See 22
AAcross 27:	Writer takes to painting — his first is in 23	PENARTH
AAcross 28:	Queen's authority would see ghost if political correctness were exchanged
DDown 1:	Greeting broadcast to back row at gunpoint — setter's chiefly got himself to blame	HISOWN
DDown 2:	Journalist's piece about wine
DDown 3:	Provide flexibility for cities confused after disposal arises
DDown 4:	Athenian name and French one? It's the other way round
DDown 5:	2 of light to test 4 — it keeps cropping up
DDown 6:	Valley of the lute?
DDown 7:	See 1 across
DDown 8:	Advice to games players on confrontational features?
DDown 13:	How we see health food — silver put into nickel (twice)	BRANDIMAGE
DDown 15:	Being no scholar, three pieces of Ban Ki-Moon follow his body — don't tell anyone!
DDown 16:	Toadstool for hanging judge?
DDown 17:	Viv Richards is opposed to a breaking shooter
DDown 19:	See 22	HEAINT
DDown 20:	Bilingual acknowledgement of paternity in a measure
DDown 23:	Monsters out of hospital go to fatherland
DDown 24:	Trauma over borough?