The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 16th October 2012

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 16th October 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Cleft in the German bum?
AAcross 5:	Potentate ditching ambassador is leading character in Moslem religion
AAcross 9:	Elegant wee hinny (man's or woman's — available to all!)
AAcross 10:	Dominant savage worries about interrupting
AAcross 11:	Reinforce Regent Street's conclusion with NHS reforms
AAcross 12:	Objectionable progeny born to traitor
AAcross 14:	Wimp's last quote I'm revising
AAcross 18:	Town's sink grammar school given illicit puff	BASINGSTOKE
AAcross 21:	Pretty Polly's slip
AAcross 22:	What to do with an acute etc?
AAcross 25:	Singer for whom each tune's different
AAcross 26:	Fury about spacewoman	IRENE
AAcross 27:	Former member of vegetable kingdom carrying men beyond the fringe
AAcross 28:	Labour to keep arbitrator in clover
DDown 1:	Corrupt scholars in river
DDown 2:	Being one of 12 getting hurt
DDown 3:	Solicitor nabs service people, securing title in contest
DDown 4:	Appointed task — turning back the clock?
DDown 5:	Drawn-out tune (Tchaikovsky's first?) rearranged in mediocre setting
DDown 6:	Kingfisher ditching Queen's boat?
DDown 7:	Damned growth infecting broken nail
DDown 8:	Tell partner to keep Shed drunk
DDown 13:	Savvy East tires West out
DDown 15:	Parasite consuming castaway — it's on a road to nowhere
DDown 16:	Let jazz fans into joint, endlessly upset
DDown 17:	Sloping round pub, raised walking stick
DDown 19:	Apply sense of sight and smell to garden feature
DDown 20:	Have a good time, taking in a show …
DDown 23:	… happening while there's still time
DDown 24:	Complaint that's left out of fashion