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    The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 27th September 2013

    There are 17 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 27th September 2013. View the answers below..
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    Number# Clue Answer
    AAcross 1: Conservative leader punching riffraff, I read — heartless creature
    AAcross 5: "Spinner" translates as which meaning?
    AAcross 9: Plant digit on distance to encompass street
    AAcross 10: Highly strung cross-dresser?
    AAcross 11: "A vile secretion it isn't", hurriedly exclaimed?
    AAcross 12: Losing our screws behind middle of cabinet is shameful
    AAcross 14: Operation, why (lately) soft in voice
    AAcross 15: An allotment of cedar, but usually mayflower
    AAcross 16: Disgraced President Obama caught out touching Miss Universe on two fronts
    AAcross 18: Find swimmer swigging it on closure of boozer
    AAcross 20: Man of noble birth, yet gutless, getting personal in Oxford, say
    AAcross 21: Water, a drink that's not very strong
    AAcross 24: Lay to rest individual indefinite number managed to return
    AAcross 25: Ground-breaking invention carries rubbish, if secured
    AAcross 26: Figure holding painting back to get on vehicle
    AAcross 27: English college, drained of ale, recalled the king's dying moments?
    AAcross 27: English college, drained of ale, recalled the king's dying moments?
    DDown 1: One's carrier? Something more to say? It's a disease
    DDown 2: Detention somewhat like a trifle, say?
    DDown 3: To say it's landlocked is somewhat misleading?
    DDown 4: Run OK, ten stages negotiated, runner up?GETONESSKATESON
    DDown 5: Contest won hands down?WHEELBARROWRACE
    DDown 6: Natural phenomenon, magnificent quantity consuming river, one going on and on and on?SEVERNBORE
    DDown 7: Settle on going into hiding under Iranian leadership
    DDown 8: Item often misplaced by good girls
    DDown 13: Misspell it, "Rumania" — a country
    DDown 16: See 5 across
    DDown 17: Cheer J loudly, but then ____, for the flowers
    DDown 19: Drink booked with 1 across 23, roughly speaking?
    DDown 22: A shade short, shake hands
    DDown 23: See 1 across
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