The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 12th August 2010

There are 15 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 12th August 2010. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Essential element of jam trade
AAcross 5:	Launch of biography (uncompleted) by posh person
AAcross 5:	Launch of biography (uncompleted) by posh person
AAcross 9:	Label report of familiar ex-captain	GUCCI
AAcross 10:	Able to take part in sport, preserving body
AAcross 11:	Night visitor with cash for discarded item of dining equipment
AAcross 12:	Soften back massage, taking in middle of shoulders
AAcross 14:	One wearing tailored "tar" strides, which are awful to get into
AAcross 18:	Scoff at Delhi's odd, non-independent support for capital punishment	THESCAFFOLD
AAcross 21:	Goo: youngster swallows litre!
AAcross 22:	Bush given a life without need, tension and Henry
AAcross 25:	Top of London Eye can't, when revolving without energy/gas
AAcross 26:	Marie Stopes's housing sign
AAcross 27:	There's nothing in waste, having lost US city
AAcross 28:	Nutty quality Dan introduced randomly into jam
DDown 1:	Legless and short? They're just the opposite
DDown 2:	Secure a job, almost
DDown 3:	Line in scrap, which might be cut for a cockpit
DDown 4:	Doubly firm, top grade drink
DDown 5:	Scour rocks after meat and drink
DDown 6:	Charge round opening of roof on the house
DDown 7:	Produced too many eggs with a coating
DDown 8:	Visionary sporting tutu: first time away
DDown 13:	Plastic, offbeat, direct comedian
DDown 15:	Almost sated inside, monarch's stand-in is radiant
DDown 16:	Daughter, hit with much cash, backs dramatist
DDown 17:	Determined underworld criminal
DDown 17:	Determined underworld criminal
DDown 19:	River rats patrol
DDown 20:	"Number's up" is spiritual knowledge
DDown 23:	Finest 50,000 sheets of paper in modern terms
DDown 24:	A spinner's short period in work