The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 2nd October 2012

There are 17 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 2nd October 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Strip club number
AAcross 4:	Uproar as facilities limited by regressive cut
AAcross 9:	Reprobate Wooster briefly in bosom of family
AAcross 10:	Stuffed with chopped dates
AAcross 11:	Front half of cat only — it has no bottom
AAcross 12:	It may cause rash woman to pursue tipple
AAcross 13:	Ace place to find fish fingers?	DABHAND
AAcross 15:	He'd bib ale not primarily fit for consumption
AAcross 17:	Dutch beauty queen?
AAcross 19:	A bit tight-lipped about being responsible following overdraft
AAcross 22:	No atropine used during surgery
AAcross 24:	Prize setter, to many a sex god
AAcross 26:	Italian cathedrals arouse odium
AAcross 27:	Industrial and kind of foul
AAcross 28:	Dull, hard, faceless men make female grouse
AAcross 28:	Dull, hard, faceless men make female grouse
AAcross 29:	Playboy stereotypically gobbling reputed aphrodisiac
DDown 1:	Poet's written about Flanders, heading off for post at sea
DDown 2:	Bulging belly with blocked tubes, it's said
DDown 3:	Early Europeans cast runes, when uncertain	ETRUSCANS
DDown 4:	Byzantine Empire's assumption
DDown 5:	Catch girl brooding?
DDown 6:	Hate-filled violent riot during civil disorder
DDown 7:	Rudd's overnight flight?
DDown 7:	Rudd's overnight flight?
DDown 8:	Hairy man's sanctimonious daughter
DDown 14:	Future wife belatedly beginning crash diet to fit into dress
DDown 16:	Around Christmas nurse's chaotic party ends in unseemly behaviour
DDown 18:	Beaten, Romney enters Senate
DDown 19:	Risk being regularly engulfed by tear gas
DDown 20:	Butter in fruit, reportedly
DDown 21:	Furious to find rat in fast food
DDown 21:	Furious to find rat in fast food
DDown 23:	Scotsman kicking drug, becoming strict Protestant
DDown 25:	Picture books' decorative border