The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 8th September 2011

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 8th September 2011. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Bed lice make some noise
AAcross 5:	FH for one making meringues, perhaps
AAcross 9:	Defence gets beast to leave
AAcross 10:	A model for an artist needing a drink
AAcross 11:	River out of churchyard meandering into Austria, perhaps
AAcross 12:	Name for beast makin' beer, do you hear?
AAcross 13:	Ploughing with lean horse?
AAcross 15:	FH of computer operator accepting informal chat
AAcross 17:	FH as conceit used by poet
AAcross 19:	Rich man goes down rapidly
AAcross 22:	In a cathedral a service requires concentration
AAcross 23:	Nothing new devised in poet or — mortgage company?
AAcross 25:	Roman two with Latin twist to start with
AAcross 26:	Shaker near to Dickensian whose charity began abroad	JELLYBY
AAcross 27:	Period of The Caretaker?
AAcross 28:	R for Rebekah
DDown 1:	Beetle having married insect is sleeping
DDown 2:	Funny fuel frames Rufus's final full year
DDown 3:	FH for 12 having died
DDown 4:	Trenet's song about the heartless supermarket hasn't been here long
DDown 5:	The Guardian has a line that isn't fresh
DDown 6:	Restrained at home and didn't show hurt inside
DDown 7:	He was beat and needed a cure all right
DDown 8:	Elevation of monarch about to join followers
DDown 14:	Winter ate away Scot and Irish	HIBERNIAN
DDown 16:	Great 12 using top of juggernaut as armour
DDown 17:	Sun to depart, right, traditionally without 3
DDown 18:	Spirited gadabout swallowing bone
DDown 20:	3 painter consigns vehicle to ditch
DDown 21:	Fiddle encompassing solvers went wrong
DDown 23:	Something of Christmas left among the sacred
DDown 24:	Worked without leader so that all should go smoothly?