The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 31st July 2013

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 31st July 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Squirm, making dog endlessly fetch
AAcross 4:	Book leaving Doctor of Divinity into theologies unmoved?	THEGOD
AAcross 9:	Business cracking in image
AAcross 10:	What is written in the first half of November?
AAcross 11:	European capital I appreciate that encapsulates the nation
AAcross 12:	Excruciating listening to a brat on television starting out — here?	BRITAINS
AAcross 13:	Gift: English wine, drained
AAcross 15:	Surrender a month after retreat, end of battle
AAcross 16:	Soft stuff, romance, for Tarantino film
AAcross 17:	Gibbons' thing to have dined in US city, informally
AAcross 21:	See 4
AAcross 22:	Leave precious little time to collect piano
AAcross 24:	16 across 1 down pre-qualified?
AAcross 25:	Something I force backwards
AAcross 26:	Cashier, the sneak?
AAcross 27:	Meal has gone by rouge lips
DDown 1:	See 16 across
DDown 2:	See 23
DDown 3:	Catch last of criminals in Queens after uprising
DDown 5:	Wind thatch around books
DDown 6:	See 12	GOTTALENT
DDown 7:	Poet reserves minutes 31-60 for old comic
DDown 8:	"Fat-faced" as is a synonym of "bottoms up"?
DDown 14:	Foul drunk about to look threatening under Conservative leader, so rich
DDown 16:	Clown I offend, punching stomach
DDown 18:	Character not quite securing promotion for less than charming girl
DDown 19:	Most great least great, only 40% off
DDown 20:	O for a group of friends, perhaps?
DDown 23:	Difficult woman in the years before the Material Girl, say?