The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 12th August 2011

There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 12th August 2011. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Delivery woman, as if?
AAcross 5:	A flower put in shoe, medicine in it
AAcross 9:	"Sabre", "scimitar" or "steel"?
AAcross 10:	Companion: the first man, perhaps, to hug royalty
AAcross 11:	Tories' rule hopelessly weak
AAcross 12:	Sporting body partial to mischief, I fancy	FIFA
AAcross 14:	See 28	OFTHEABSURD
AAcross 18:	Appear more stupid secreting drug, when cared for	LOOKEDAFTER
AAcross 21:	Silence a lady of pop!
AAcross 22:	Game taking record capital
AAcross 25:	Classic ballet leap — cut the chat, where's the earth moving?
AAcross 26:	In a day, beginning to grow
AAcross 27:	Lot more feverish, rapid bowing
AAcross 28:	Unreal drama suggesting hater of teeth?
DDown 1:	Supernatural U for __, say, if polite?
DDown 2:	Foreign body or thingummy	DOOBRY
DDown 3:	Ill at home, given medicine, drinking another sip
DDown 4:	Caesar's forty said to perform well
DDown 5:	Leave people under a tyre, primarily to get flat
DDown 6:	Hot in seat, how hot it is!
DDown 7:	Deeply fond of one's better half, you kiss and love, right? I love you so, not half!
DDown 8:	Attractive person caught feeding a needy sort of guy, finally
DDown 13:	Grammatical term brought up, one in decline, cut short
DDown 15:	Weak lifts around a strong building, taking old, old air	TEAFORTWO
DDown 16:	Around start of fracas, gutless frantic series of heavy blows
DDown 17:	Sustained melting catastrophic surrounding Circle
DDown 17:	Sustained melting catastrophic surrounding Circle
DDown 19:	Able to get radio broadcast on time
DDown 20:	For example, Russian mouth organ
DDown 23:	Bankers' daily crime?
DDown 24:	Set up zero bricks