The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 23rd February 2011

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 23rd February 2011. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Royal sultanate has nothing against royal family
AAcross 5:	Gesture deriding the Queen needs six 19s
AAcross 9:	Some said "an eye for an eye" after 19
AAcross 10:	Coming from the Pole — that or the railway?
AAcross 11:	15 — or should it be Queen? — maybe 19
AAcross 12:	Go away to get in with no contest
AAcross 14:	Make a noise like the last trump	WAKETHEDEAD
AAcross 18:	Be a top copper, more than usually mean?
AAcross 21:	Carefully select worker to take from 19
AAcross 22:	Diseased flour cooked and eaten by Liverpudlian missing drug
AAcross 25:	Missing lord keeping some British model smoother
AAcross 26:	One willing to bet at a 7, in part
AAcross 27:	General in burlesque resembling a mouse?
AAcross 28:	Carer finally comes in to nurse novelist	FORSTER
DDown 1:	Skint, having lost capital through painting 4	ROKEBY
DDown 2:	Half time — you nearly made it!
DDown 3:	Eager to embrace quarrel with some elders all about tattooing, say
DDown 4:	Body of little beauty after 19
DDown 5:	Setter out about to compete with wiper
DDown 6:	Emperor with foothold out of crease
DDown 7:	Cover for head, right cheek if needed, or 21 for 19
DDown 8:	Painter only worked in colours
DDown 13:	Most of 7 19 watch one after talent
DDown 15:	Machiavelli's subject, like corruption, includes its leader
DDown 16:	Surfaces roads — so Cleopatra doesn't get bitten?
DDown 17:	Work to give power, having a key
DDown 19:	See 23
DDown 20:	One taking interest in turn for having extra security
DDown 23:	Took up English football club to effect losing money
DDown 24:	See 21