The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 9th February 2012

There are 17 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 9th February 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Freak has the occasional party
AAcross 5:	See 14
AAcross 10:	Service block
AAcross 10:	Service block
AAcross 11:	Lean outlines a number of points, personal, in film location	TINSELTOWN
AAcross 12:	Characters representative of the 17 on trial, legs akimbo, as attendants off piste?
AAcross 13:	Elgin having lost marbles, horse half gone, revealing habit
AAcross 14:	Building is sensational pad, this 17 edifice	PALAISDES
AAcross 16:	See 12
AAcross 17:	Second dark man, fool, laid back in embrace of the missus, as multitasker
AAcross 19:	See 17	ARMYKNIFE
AAcross 23:	Long-distance traveller *** cool!
AAcross 24:	Barmy notice that may be 17?
AAcross 26:	Reused manuscript most bleached, devils inscribed
AAcross 27:	Noise primarily in boor — or boar?
AAcross 28:	17 location in 17 centre for Italian sculptor
AAcross 29:	Difficulty with infusion of one's own blood going this way and that
DDown 2:	Flip over king, say, and queen, perhaps on a now obsolete coin
DDown 3:	17 place bottom on top of lap
DDown 4:	Contents of a pack including drink — that's ironic, to say the least!
DDown 6:	In time sell short — or pay back
DDown 7:	Gut feeling it's how teachers make money?
DDown 8:	Roosevelt's initiatives exposed something slippery, by the sound of it
DDown 9:	Constant return generated a little money to feed one side of Manchester
DDown 15:	No one with hair on end underwrites a claim
DDown 18:	Power demonstrated by a hollow tyrant cutting pay
DDown 20:	Mexican state currency protecting the queen, say
DDown 21:	Disapprove of loud argument over French veto
DDown 22:	Feature about work, one of his taking a minute?
DDown 25:	See 24