The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 3rd February 2012

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 3rd February 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Where apples found, it's said, one has an advantage
AAcross 5:	Having touched base, 7 behind swimmer
AAcross 9:	Nureyev or I keep holding back ballet company	KIROV
AAcross 10:	11 extreme characters, revolutionary, capturing leader of unstable nation
AAcross 11:	See 19
AAcross 12:	Exhaust, something on 7 car?
AAcross 14:	Compound, where Shed and Paul found drunk, getting in after midnight?	LEADSULPHATE
AAcross 18:	Heroes reduced pain in amoebae, say
AAcross 21:	Kitty flips, seeing ring
AAcross 22:	Fresh in retirement, put out about the limits of youth finding very little accommodation
AAcross 25:	I send over daring man, old politician Cyrus, getting ahead
AAcross 26:	Little room with love, one between your legs?
AAcross 27:	Cat returning to cross river, came across eyelet
AAcross 28:	Show false claim about 7
DDown 1:	Uplifting Japanese healing absorbing indefinite number, so darker
DDown 2:	Guarantee fatty swipes last of dinner
DDown 3:	Bundle of money raised to cover errant lover in court, primarily — this deciding who gets it?	DIVORCELAW
DDown 4:	Dog runs on
DDown 5:	Roaming as cousins, carefree	SANSSOUCI
DDown 6:	Cutter says more in conversation
DDown 7:	Gray as a part of 17 down, say, whose unfinished elegy criminal pans out
DDown 8:	First of six quickies — they're out of this world!
DDown 13:	Random tests making mark on 7 bank orders	SPOTCHECKS
DDown 15:	Go crazy wriggling nose into 7 confection	DOONESNUT
DDown 16:	See 7
DDown 17:	A party's undertone (7) reaching 7 river
DDown 19:	Having turned up, leaders in blue lingerie instantly focus (7) to force government initiative
DDown 20:	Shrink from bacterium, turning tail, under bottom of sewer
DDown 23:	King had one hand, finally, on paper
DDown 24:	Egg emu voted to gobble up