The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 18th July 2013

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 18th July 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Computer puzzling no work for a monkey
AAcross 5:	Channels being employed on board
AAcross 9:	Scrubber taking a plonker from behind
AAcross 10:	See 27
AAcross 11:	Conventional way, say, to find 2 of 4, perhaps?
AAcross 12:	See 26
AAcross 14:	Blooming quality not as good among delicate seamless fringes
AAcross 18:	See 27
AAcross 21:	One's blown old plane in half
AAcross 22:	Choppy sea more confused, we hear, in part of England
AAcross 25:	Establishment of Rome not entirely anti-revolutionary
AAcross 26:	Jay catching birds beginning to warble seasonal song	LETIT
AAcross 27:	President taking circuitous line in consultation with me, I'm stretched out, tired and exhausted
AAcross 28:	Third wife has to be extra watchful, they say
DDown 1:	Attack underground workers heading for tunnel
DDown 2:	Taking credit and responsibility, he brought up his children
DDown 3:	Four leaflets for it, equal after distribution
DDown 4:	Mathematician starts to expand upon Lagrange's extraordinary results
DDown 5:	Dozy trio of neighbouring characters screened by Hampshire channel
DDown 6:	Sense the superpower's gone then?
DDown 7:	More slight risk with nine labours
DDown 8:	Budgerigars, perhaps, rising like owls in flight?
DDown 13:	Part below zero literally empty, however
DDown 15:	Time alternative cases in process
DDown 16:	Small number of hens, you might say, for an ice cream serving?
DDown 17:	Joiner taking gold fled from the country
DDown 19:	Drunk left in the end, cut short
DDown 20:	Beam first on roof then
DDown 23:	Beer container is capital
DDown 24:	Held up by hook, a monster shark