The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 4th August 2011

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 4th August 2011. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Extract from channel by excellent former laureate	ANNEFINE
AAcross 5:	Cover in partly foreign aircraft
AAcross 9:	Protective expression of disapproval at upsetting beer on line
AAcross 10:	Temporary relationship with a b-blonde?
AAcross 12:	Exclamation (from Plumstead) promising to the 7?	GOODHEAVENS
AAcross 15:	Moved like a serpent losing something of its shape in birthday suit
AAcross 17:	Havoc as played, alternative to 12 to please the 7?	MERRYHELL
AAcross 18:	High ball concealing uncertain treasure, more like fatty bacon
AAcross 19:	Connect for safety in 13
AAcross 20:	Second name of Sikh swallowed by fish in Norfolk garden centre	BRESSINGHAM
AAcross 24:	Article evoking protest
AAcross 25:	Not breaking barrier for us — nobis in translation, more or less
AAcross 26:	Make toe the line, suppressing union by force
AAcross 27:	Backing 1 down leaving (for ever) Sale
DDown 1:	Enemy social worker has a go on Ulster street
DDown 2:	Those linked at home know trees spread around river
DDown 3:	Sewage put the wrong side in estuary
DDown 4:	Romanesque correspondent responsible for the 15 and the 7
DDown 6:	Tate's mate accepts one-party conduct
DDown 6:	Tate's mate accepts one-party conduct
DDown 7:	Useless people in the Black Hills
DDown 8:	Not often still red?
DDown 11:	Lord in France near having certain difficulty with nonconformity	PEERPRESSURE
DDown 13:	Be told rumours of domestic setting in grammar school	HEARTHINGS
DDown 14:	I leave Saddam's henchman as indexed relating to elixirs
DDown 16:	Snags with Spooner to make holes in Yorkshire power station
DDown 21:	Poet of the sweet spring has direction about tree	NASHE
DDown 22:	See 7
DDown 23:	A container with an opening