The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 1st April 2010

There are 17 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 1st April 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Quick to bracket old taxmen as thieving
AAcross 4:	Design of 11 for fashion
AAcross 9:	So exact
AAcross 10:	Stage performer taking lace finally through shoe fastener
AAcross 11:	Currency taken to bridge
AAcross 12:	Her composure, but ___ (Latin American)
AAcross 13:	Opportunity discouraged failure
AAcross 13:	Opportunity discouraged failure
AAcross 15:	You're PM, but ___ (a religious leader)
AAcross 16:	Don't go, serve!
AAcross 17:	Jane's man becoming her escort
AAcross 21:	You monk, but ___ (time to get fully immersed)
AAcross 22:	Tool for Australian cricketers, say?
AAcross 24:	Understood to go before M — 007, was he?	ROGERMOORE
AAcross 25:	Actually live	ASIT
AAcross 26:	Bleed, as old cake cut
AAcross 27:	Demanding covering, every cloud thus covered?
DDown 1:	Seaside feature entertaining group leader
DDown 2:	Two boys 27 to be separated?
DDown 3:	Man cheated on topless bird, in biting
DDown 5:	Shocked to see old ovens retaining hot temperature
DDown 6:	Resort where priests seen holding drinks up	LASPALMAS
DDown 7:	Element nickel in the cold
DDown 8:	Don't hold back having got cut — gash the swine!	GOTHEWHOLEHOG
DDown 14:	Organisation lamenting being disorganised
DDown 16:	Lose many, but ___ (fair?)
DDown 18:	See 25
DDown 19:	At school, not using head, so in work
DDown 20:	Bang on the Communist standard?
DDown 23:	I ruin one's Japanese porcelain