The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 18th August 2011

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 18th August 2011. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Four-and-twenty blackbirds in sour cream! F-word recipe?	AMURDER
AAcross 5:	Puzzle is Boatman's tale: love lost, embracing life at last
AAcross 10:	Lover's letters leave us emphatically with value and purpose
AAcross 11:	Eponymous songbird suffered distress	TITLETRACK
AAcross 12:	He killed off a detective — not at all sinister
AAcross 13:	Detective's first to remove uniform in US venture
AAcross 14:	Swing, dead after coil set round sergeant's head
AAcross 16:	Clash with faction leads to an end to shooting
AAcross 17:	Detective left out of scrap
AAcross 19:	Give a wide berth, taking a berth with a fish
AAcross 23:	Plans a scam involving the forgery
AAcross 24:	Got together with everyone in the club
AAcross 26:	Location of shooting craps etc: no moral outrage?
AAcross 27:	War is wrong; peace begins with an end to shooting
AAcross 28:	How to sit on bike: quick spin uses no force
AAcross 29:	Trap for attacker in fields of lost middle England
DDown 2:	Men: those who give nothing away receive violent end
DDown 3:	Restore state of sapper on location of shooting
DDown 4:	Entrance hall rent collected, a pound off
DDown 6:	Yard is led astray and gives up
DDown 7:	Boatman's cover is partial, unsurprisingly
DDown 8:	Beast firm on sitting under overturned vehicle
DDown 9:	Drama at no stage gives way over police search among some trees	STREETTHEATRE
DDown 15:	Detective uses bug to catch copper with gold
DDown 18:	See 1	OFCROWS
DDown 20:	Backstage sound effect for killing casually
DDown 21:	Starting crisis in denial upset bankers' host
DDown 22:	Carried on with detectives in bad taste
DDown 25:	Exceptionally wise novice first to make sergeant