The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 18th November 2011

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

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Private school head's not initially remote
AAcross 5:	Luggage carrier, originally from vehicle back into castle
AAcross 9:	Increase number in layer
AAcross 10:	A display of inexperience after cancelled service? Hatchback is deadly
AAcross 11:	Tool returning chez Dad for a bit
AAcross 12:	Downpour (cf. spurt)
AAcross 13:	Part of Liverpool 9, say	HUYTON
AAcross 14:	New Brighton? Head off about the distance from equator given by grid reference
AAcross 16:	Two rock bands of the ’70s, one halving drug use, take time showing expressiveness
AAcross 19:	Threaten to go out with head of government, say
AAcross 21:	Soldier's messing about in task
AAcross 23:	Some oddities of uncertain recollection
AAcross 24:	Almost 5 or 10, with 10 the turning point?
AAcross 25:	Informed about husband reportedly drunk in foreign city
AAcross 26:	Get rid of black snot I produced
AAcross 27:	Foreign agreement embraced by parties in folk dance movement
DDown 2:	At first agreed to lug old case round Englishman's castle for PM	ALECDOUGLASHOME
DDown 3:	Eg pork pie given to a model carrying little weight
DDown 4:	Eccentric characters mostly surprised by English reserve
DDown 5:	Weak summary
DDown 5:	Weak summary
DDown 6:	Cooked topless when tipsy
DDown 7:	Make fresh contact with outreach organisation, after adult goes missing
DDown 8:	Old French epic song from one of the Rat Pack?	CHANSONDEROLAND
DDown 15:	Sort of man that can be relied on to be far from sinister
DDown 17:	Band in which piano takes up odd bits of tune
DDown 18:	Turncoat's foremost pretext for disloyalty
DDown 20:	Walks wearily as a Dickensian in outskirts of Totnes
DDown 22:	Vetoes the other trendy set-up