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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..

The Answers

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 companyKIROV
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, carefreeSANSSOUCI
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 ordersSPOTCHECKS
DDown 15: Go crazy wriggling nose into 7 confectionDOONESNUT
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
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