The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 14th August 2013

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

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Provide updated description for insurgent outside US city
AAcross 5:	Made nasty statements in second piece
AAcross 9:	Part of tomahawk found somewhere on the Missouri
AAcross 10:	Coats I see being altered? China uses them to keep warm	TEACOSIES
AAcross 11:	Very fast way to cope with lack of corkscrew?
AAcross 12:	Compare Liberal former president with new
AAcross 13:	Noise made by chains in prison
AAcross 15:	How scholar gains recognition, gradually	BYDEGREES
AAcross 18:	Reduce burden at university to become more relaxed
AAcross 19:	Check writer's material for gap
AAcross 21:	European seen in London club, a place that attracts many
AAcross 23:	Restricted middle section used to be soft, then it was revised
AAcross 25:	Musician has material for strings, including one form of sitar
AAcross 26:	Epic poem in which one macho man eclipses another one
AAcross 27:	Listener stirred with no end of emotion — that's how theatre should be
AAcross 28:	Doctor moved carefully and cleared out bed
DDown 1:	Like diamonds making corrupt mob rich
DDown 2:	Raising dough, pound area in later part of day
DDown 3:	Jet — to get hence to 24 via 5 down, 7 etc, 18 across, 15?
DDown 4:	Garbage collector's brood born at home
DDown 5:	Empty space left in row
DDown 6:	Use an axe, I note, to argue contentiously
DDown 7:	React with surprise as bachelor's put on tie
DDown 8:	Tansies stewed, making medicinal drinks
DDown 14:	I talk nonsensically about Maori dance, Indian dance
DDown 16:	Unfinished lair located south of river, placed in bank
DDown 17:	Drawing out, for example, about legal measure, briefly
DDown 18:	Alkaline substances holding up attempt to make porcelain	LIMOGES
DDown 20:	Insect, at very end, finally caught by child
DDown 22:	Cut of meat in lunch in eatery
DDown 23:	Plaintive cry from husband entering port, perhaps
DDown 24:	Why is tea endlessly combined with milk?