The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 17th October 2013

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 17th October 2013. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	No subject gets trim in steel tempered by sun
AAcross 10:	Spot large roomy place
AAcross 11:	Rock ’n' roll classic clue stuffed with wicked content	LUCILLE
AAcross 12:	Superior aid distribution or rapid transport
AAcross 12:	Superior aid distribution or rapid transport
AAcross 13:	Fish-eater's brother close up
AAcross 14:	Glowing with colour, one possibly cycles a bit
AAcross 15:	Which might reveal one's inner thoughts of careless penmanship?
AAcross 17:	China capped electric leads on memory microchip
AAcross 19:	Not a straightforward critic of unrestricted, wide press coverage of Independent
AAcross 22:	See 23
AAcross 23:	Record down in the charts? That can be a real pain
AAcross 24:	Provisional playwright drops leading character: one is contracted
AAcross 26:	Lives in Lille's changed together with a former immigration HQ	ELLIS
AAcross 27:	Darn leisure activity?
DDown 1:	Theoretically, it makes us universally central
DDown 2:	Maligned dove I can keep up in the air?
DDown 3:	See 13
DDown 4:	Creature that's drained of water's, er, done for
DDown 5:	See 26
DDown 6:	Jury briber supporters dividing capital return
DDown 7:	He wrote back to addressee, finally
DDown 8:	It makes Cyclops, cryptically, about the ultimate in crossword's unsubtle humour	SLAPSTICKCOMEDY
DDown 16:	No more fencing for camp men about to retire?	LASTPOST
DDown 17:	MASH director, who wants paying
DDown 18:	Man flu, old style, you could say, post operations here
DDown 20:	Doctor Sorrows is boring
DDown 21:	"Charge" contained by concise reference work?
DDown 25:	See 15