The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 2nd May 2011

There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 2nd May 2011. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Witty saying has some point with animals
AAcross 5:	Enigmatic, keen and in charge, set about exercising
AAcross 10:	Stake for backing a mount
AAcross 11:	Put up defence and tie game
AAcross 12:	Fashionable school for cricket, say?
AAcross 13:	It's discharged in battle during action
AAcross 14:	Instructing or admonishing
AAcross 16:	Edits a translation that is in Latin
AAcross 17:	Music of the Depression?
AAcross 19:	Void contest?	SPACERACE
AAcross 23:	Saw baton wielded in Africa
AAcross 24:	Display by top-class band
AAcross 26:	How people may call us in explosive competition
AAcross 27:	Perfect but inconclusive thought
AAcross 28:	It's used to compose pieces of music
AAcross 29:	Ship's sails etc split a lot
DDown 2:	Last character leaves Cornish town in humiliation
DDown 3:	Look back in Middle Ages for capital savers
DDown 4:	His is a searching examination, by all accounts
DDown 6:	Brush off and polish again
DDown 7:	Dine with Ralph, prepared to flirt
DDown 8:	The way in which a French painter finally got the point
DDown 9:	Espy an admirer, perhaps the answer to this?	MAIDENSPRAYER
DDown 15:	Bound to be in step — and rated highly
DDown 18:	Cave used as an observation post
DDown 18:	Cave used as an observation post
DDown 20:	Pipe of pipes
DDown 21:	Voting against, told to go and vote for
DDown 22:	Wild herb found around Virginia
DDown 25:	Being sorry, one called out