The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 19th December 2012

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 19th December 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Group of officers, heads of naval detachments
AAcross 5:	Old Scotsman's colourful project
AAcross 9:	Nice way of saying Arachne's somewhat vacuous and a bit wet
AAcross 10:	It might drop me, if uninitiated in its use
AAcross 11:	Expert on land usage cultivating margins, too
AAcross 12:	Privileged American used to be attracted to power
AAcross 14:	Of sound mind, ultimately buffered by stout optimism
AAcross 18:	Inspecting, unannounced, what teenagers get up to in bathroom?	SPOTCHECKING
AAcross 21:	Top copy with illiterate's signature
AAcross 22:	Damn it, Twitter, you embody fatuousness!
AAcross 25:	Party line developed into mutual exchange
AAcross 26:	State occasion making a mint
AAcross 27:	This team makes you tea
AAcross 28:	Qualified agreements to rework endless subsystem	YESBUTS
DDown 1:	Struggle to disentangle 16 down
DDown 2:	Relating to fast, tailless fictional bloodhound
DDown 3:	Ace tenant merrily taking possession of duke's house
DDown 4:	On reflection micron's a tiny amount, in fact
DDown 5:	Bouncer quietly getting Oscar to leave club
DDown 6:	Destroys country house, top to bottom
DDown 7:	Admirer's agreement to marry — but not yet
DDown 8:	Wrongly enter hairdressing establishment offering health treatments
DDown 13:	Interest as founder returns to old place
DDown 15:	Freedom fighters beleaguer ill-assorted internees
DDown 16:	Radioactive element, which is used to lower cholesterol in casualty
DDown 17:	Disturbed Harry Lime's last day
DDown 19:	Copper said goodbye	SEEYOU
DDown 20:	Where French children learn to core fruit
DDown 23:	Sardonically mentioning carefree fellow
DDown 24:	Perhaps the elder Turgenev gets noticed periodically?