The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 18th January 2013

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 18th January 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Singer's second note in series of 1 down 5?
AAcross 5:	Close to Gordon Brown in recession — No 10 dividing country
AAcross 9:	Secures in advance unfinished press boxes, mostly vacant
AAcross 10:	Rings of gold chunks
AAcross 12:	Once more supplied grass without John's partner
AAcross 15:	Copper imprisons idiot (on the contrary) in enlarged cell
AAcross 17:	Drink and drink, cocktail of lager and last bit of wine
AAcross 18:	Rate current police coppers: no pressure
AAcross 19:	Characters in 11 make footballer
AAcross 20:	Clubs excite Beatle — Ringo's not old and is at party …
AAcross 24:	… Beatle, on Radio 6 — go live outside
AAcross 25:	Plant one in 11 in leaves, so given Alan's tip
AAcross 26:	See 19
AAcross 27:	He doesn't appear in tabloid writer's main dangers
DDown 1:	3 might move him — with name, he could fly to next Olympics?	SUPERMARIO
DDown 2:	Caffeine reduced in treatment during cold — lack of capacity to work
DDown 3:	Golf in the morning, let me see one playing
DDown 4:	American series on hospital department initially leaving you in a severe way
DDown 6:	They shorten game in topless bars
DDown 7:	Fish catcher? Source of the runs around India
DDown 8:	Kitchen, Rope, Miss Scarlet — finally a set that fits together
DDown 11:	Burnt dish — red after cooking show that used 1 down 5?
DDown 13:	This puts it bluntly, one left Mac to play with Sonic
DDown 14:	Writer to stuff in names of magical figures
DDown 16:	Charming Spanish golfer interrupted by Channel 1
DDown 21:	Fireball cast? Unusual end from creator of 1 down 5?
DDown 22:	Hands over in trade
DDown 23:	Poet Virgil's last letter to head