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    The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 27th April 2012

    There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 27th April 2012. View the answers below..
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    Number# Clue Answer
    AAcross 1: Composer starts losing tempo, say, gutted
    AAcross 5: Performers are childless reformers
    AAcross 9: Rare working party piece that's repeated
    AAcross 10: Traditional Gaelic music performed with delay now and then on riverDIDDLYDEE
    AAcross 11: Mercurial character in book: it's set in turbulent Italy
    AAcross 12: Woman doesn't finish change
    AAcross 14: 1 across piece, a version of Cinderella, captivates its composer's heartCLAIRDELUNE
    AAcross 18: An opera is rewritten to include Queen's instrumentSQUAREPIANO
    AAcross 21: Radical Paris edition of the Pink ’Un?
    AAcross 22: Engineer made Freudian slip describing middle of tune, 1 across pieceLAPRESMIDI
    AAcross 25: Steak went off stuffed with duck (extra large)
    AAcross 26: Not as convincing as 1 across piece
    AAcross 27: Played together better stripped — Moore's outstanding
    AAcross 28: Use it to trace letters from angry clients
    DDown 1: Trace source of echo in Verdi orchestration
    DDown 2: British and German article abroad makes a pile
    DDown 3: Initially, stiff drink damages penile extensions?SPORTSCARS
    DDown 4: This is not art, perhaps — and trained Tyroleans do it
    DDown 5: Check old song picked up in music halls
    DDown 6: Rang, say, and drove home
    DDown 7: Rolls here supported with drink
    DDown 8: Step unsteadily over tiny adult plant
    DDown 8: Step unsteadily over tiny adult plant
    DDown 13: Dragonfly from French-German river I caught
    DDown 15: A very quiet Scottish singer nearly died, clapped out?
    DDown 16: I worried about short solo by daughter, being unaccompanied
    DDown 17: See 22DUNFAUNE
    DDown 19: Black Magic represented as fast foodBIGMAC
    DDown 20: Irish Republican breaks law over in part of MerseysideWIRRAL
    DDown 23: Seizes women leaving bars with no music?
    DDown 24: 2 of banknotes offering security
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