The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 3rd July 2013

There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 3rd July 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Book challenging paper
AAcross 6:	See 15
AAcross 8:	See 27
AAcross 9:	Cook dressing in private ultimately for Sunday best
AAcross 10:	See 15	PASUNE
AAcross 11:	Anything but an island, lake is imaginary
AAcross 12:	Fringes back on church soil
AAcross 15:	Paint piece: scene's up for interpretation as work of 26 21	CECINEST
AAcross 16:	Bag with smack sent over — want to lose head?
AAcross 19:	Turn one's nose up at garbage
AAcross 21:	See 26
AAcross 22:	Books in bundle missing the last book
AAcross 24:	Nightmare, describing Greece originally	HELLAS
AAcross 25:	Weird doctor yearning after smelly guts
AAcross 26:	Artist framing "Endless Time" and "Winter Vehicle", not quite a surrealist	RENE
AAcross 27:	As utter misery beginning to advance, use ill-conceived cuts
DDown 1:	Cap in hand over foreign money, a beast picking over carcasses
DDown 2:	One liberating another snooker player's assistant shortly before snooker player?
DDown 3:	It's here or there, perhaps
DDown 4:	Private meeting place where parent and child, one an idiot, say, raised
DDown 5:	Security finally appearing during fast race after a crash — this vehicle?	SAFETYCAR
DDown 6:	Game ending in soup over and over again
DDown 7:	Average assets half lost through less than zero responsibility, this looming large over Greece?
DDown 13:	Neon in its natural state, element initially inferior to fellow element
DDown 14:	Philosophers originally accommodated by the Lhasa New Resort
DDown 17:	A part in exercise for one conditionally released
DDown 18:	Savers look to catch salesman up
DDown 20:	Director hit the water with last of Bacardi
DDown 22:	See 4
DDown 23:	Cheap as nails?