The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 26th September 2013

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 26th September 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Irish rebel catches novelist in surprise attack
AAcross 5:	Composer joins extreme characters back in the capital
AAcross 9:	Officer receiving cautionary signal from light unit
AAcross 10:	Green English boy taken in by trick
AAcross 11:	Bottle takes no time — after seconds it's clean
AAcross 12:	Spooner's treasure bank — food
AAcross 13:	Through which ships may, go taking direction without deviation, we hear
AAcross 17:	Anarchy with credo disturbed church office
AAcross 20:	Bit of poetry is translated with hi-tech program, ultimately
AAcross 22:	A woman who does pickle	ACHAR
AAcross 23:	Maybe we say the Established Church should go?
AAcross 24:	A chapter within short read offers insights
AAcross 25:	Moral quality associated with house group	THEWHO
AAcross 26:	Blocking in passage when old-fashioned secretary and young girl meet
DDown 1:	A pound in ready money secures carriage
DDown 2:	Man's foremost god?
DDown 3:	Lead and fruit buried with the man in grave
DDown 4:	Put off married state, one's bound to show firmness of mind
DDown 6:	Note the requirement of student looking for accommodation?	AFLAT
DDown 7:	Tree chopped up I removed to put in the back
DDown 8:	What may have been slashed, outburst of rage ensuing?
DDown 10:	Hater? Maybe he needs it	CHANGEOFHEART
DDown 14:	"Caustic zone" — name of hell
DDown 15:	Little cottage in which there's cheap, nasty ornamental container
DDown 16:	School matron's first to exude gossip
DDown 18:	Hairy things producing upsets
DDown 19:	Emergencies mount in the Civil Service
DDown 21:	Shut up about OT character's sin!