The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 29th September 2011

There are 15 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 29th September 2011. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Whale — something inclined to break wind when tail cut off
AAcross 5:	Racket's centre starts to buckle under bombardment
AAcross 9:	See 18
AAcross 9:	See 18
AAcross 10:	Having to live with hump, a whale
AAcross 12:	"Melange of Entrails" is OK as meat dish
AAcross 15:	Bathroom items showing bum a lot
AAcross 17:	Dreadful situation for mechanics?
AAcross 19:	See 18
AAcross 20:	Hostile sun a planet goes round
AAcross 22:	Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance
AAcross 26:	Until now there's little rotating through something nailed on one's foot
AAcross 27:	Feminist hiding as one gets more slimy
AAcross 28:	Mind chap's lesson read out?
AAcross 29:	Reserve accommodation for animals, by the way
DDown 1:	Sand in guts
DDown 2:	See 25
DDown 3:	See 4
DDown 4:	21 7's creation, time which goes slowly?
DDown 6:	Hard then to appear nervous?
DDown 7:	See 21	BLUMENTHAL
DDown 8:	Medieval killer ordered city to restrain miss, due to be disembowelled
DDown 11:	Roman writer's watch going round end of finger
DDown 13:	Those such as 11 up in swear words, manipulating people
DDown 14:	US horseman hurried off to grab first of guns after uprising in Oregon
DDown 14:	US horseman hurried off to grab first of guns after uprising in Oregon
DDown 16:	Peak time, touring university, for 21's work	BENHUR
DDown 18:	21 7's creation concerned with magic, a nonsense to eat say (a degree over the top)	BACONAND
DDown 21:	Menus on the table virtually absurd, into hysterical extremes — is he?	HESTON
DDown 23:	Rhythmic sound heard initially in jazz performer, pet scarpering
DDown 24:	See 17
DDown 25:	Part of hippo, perhaps, revealing woolly patch?