The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 2nd February 2012

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 2nd February 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Old dictator gives a fig, when nudged, about count
AAcross 5:	Indian sage that's been topped and crushed by child's mother
AAcross 9:	Cathedral city lacks large, double height, freestyle rap instrument
AAcross 10:	Protection of two "names" separately included in a cruise at sea
AAcross 11:	Small folded paper sheets cover landed gentlemen, generally
AAcross 12:	Old composer's chat, say, on the radio
AAcross 14:	Race got up — a classic beauty	ENGLISHROSE
AAcross 18:	Certain people have fun with Shakespearean drama, discreetly	THESCOTTISH
AAcross 21:	See 18
AAcross 22:	Deprived community's song of work comes to nowt, sadly
AAcross 25:	Make something of prisoners transported by lorry, it's said
AAcross 26:	Foul's legal, if starting line's cut
AAcross 27:	Top grade butter in lounge, somewhere in Wyoming
AAcross 28:	Theatre director wants Rye converted for a location in The Sound of Music
DDown 1:	Advice to ambitious young man — "get lost!"	GOWEST
DDown 2:	He assembled scores of shops round Nassau's east end
DDown 3:	Here carbon emission produces disgust
DDown 4:	Part of eye hospital instant? Here's a drink
DDown 5:	Dictator forcing poor souls into a small car
DDown 6:	See 9
DDown 7:	Poet figure associated with New York's performing
DDown 8:	City of Lincoln? Right — need to change
DDown 13:	Those people crossing High Andes peaks triumph, taking a picture	THEHAYWAIN
DDown 15:	Lodge's The Usage, novel about love
DDown 16:	Unusual element of "floaty" pi calculation
DDown 17:	Old servant's not a giving type
DDown 19:	See 4
DDown 20:	Acting on the stage, so no need to call fault	INPLAY
DDown 23:	Unacceptable, going up or down	NOTON
DDown 24:	It's been split, the first half of dictionary?