The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 29th August 2013

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 29th August 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Heading west, curve around port
AAcross 4:	Moving in the right direction, having several training sessions?	ONCOURSE
AAcross 8:	Question asked by someone comparing Christmas presents etc?	ANDWHATHAVEYOU
AAcross 10:	Economist's suggestion for a cannibal's feast?
AAcross 11:	Some holy stranger encountered in place on missionary journey	LYSTRA
AAcross 12:	Security person with hairy bits at the front of University Hospital
AAcross 15:	Fine instrument dramatist uses
AAcross 17:	Liberal request made by independent political theorist, once	LASKI
AAcross 18:	Guy of 7 in short-staffed group	MANNERING
AAcross 19:	Make a killing, maybe, as murderer keeping quiet
AAcross 21:	High priest's casual greeting, unusual around church
AAcross 24:	Message from 7 undone by a plod, a graft with sun, gales, ice	GREATGODTHISIS
AAcross 25:	Cooks of now and yesteryear?
AAcross 26:	Hollow bishop with a thing to be confessed?
DDown 1:	See 24	ANAWFULPLACE
DDown 2:	Portions from the chippy? Lunch boxes no longer have them!
DDown 3:	Pest starting off fast, hard to catch
DDown 4:	Exclusion of drunken sot with display of unacceptable bigotry
DDown 5:	Bird to sing, missing note
DDown 6:	See ad and buy product, finally to be cooked now?	USEBYDATE
DDown 7:	Explorer beginning to suffer with cold, excessively
DDown 9:	Enjoying fine weather? Something our readers probably won't be doing!	TAKINGTHESUN
DDown 13:	Reliable but losing heart — is worker, in terms of self-image?
DDown 14:	Sidney had curled up nice and warm, maybe
DDown 16:	It's not just the workers they look after
DDown 20:	Casual society set up in the country
DDown 22:	Therapy that could come from a herb
DDown 23:	Fruit not looking so good, a third wasted