The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 9th October 2013

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 9th October 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	As a baby, Victor introduces himself?
AAcross 9:	Boy meeting love on the rebound ending in affair, going out now
AAcross 10:	Worry one on board?
AAcross 11:	After horseplay, wake up with mare — cover your face!	WEARMAKEUP
AAcross 12:	Articles removed from one of 7 that's solid
AAcross 14:	Look to entertain European king, after backing vocals in the moonlight?
AAcross 15:	One zooms around Belgian capital, seeing lines on a map
AAcross 17:	Hairy thing faced extinction initially, certainly around US city, ending in death
AAcross 20:	Birds on Jack, they say, in an instant?
AAcross 22:	Number including unity, one or the other
AAcross 23:	Man recently dug up right vegetable consumed by four-eyes, we hear?
AAcross 24:	See 25
AAcross 25:	If Spurs primarily not there, getting confused with the Arsenal 7?
AAcross 26:	A golfer's round including first of putts to get ahead
DDown 1:	7 meets air after a storm
DDown 2:	See 25
DDown 3:	Disheartened, one fleeing landing strip
DDown 4:	’E's looking more sickly after an upset, in return of illness
DDown 5:	Insect eating mollusc, once
DDown 6:	Grave in which a sovereign, 23 found buried?
DDown 7:	Cryptically go for the sod?
DDown 13:	Given failure to trap a number of bees heard circling his potty, its contents discarded	RUBBISHBIN
DDown 16:	Wait to invest in wine, being cautious
DDown 18:	Way has been wild, fine for antelope
DDown 19:	7 — a pitch impressing Liverpudlian, ultimately	ANFIELD
DDown 21:	Brave old giant not quite standing to punch shattered jaw
DDown 22:	7 welcomed by Man United, a hit evidently? On the contrary	ETIHAD
DDown 24:	Long sentence somewhat ungrammatical, if effortless