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    The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 23rd October 2013

    There are 16 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 23rd October 2013. View the answers below..
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    Number# Clue Answer
    AAcross 1: Step down first of stairs to break rule
    AAcross 4: Having turned back nearly half way across ocean, explorer leaves from the Americas
    AAcross 9: Where glasses sit precisely
    AAcross 10: Thread attaching fringes of lungi and shawl to back of cape
    AAcross 11: Shroud city featuring shrouds
    AAcross 12: Islanders on Martinique not once seizing vesselJAMAICANS
    AAcross 13: Snack, Spooner's filth of the filth?
    AAcross 15: See 27
    AAcross 17: Compassion some weeks after conflict
    AAcross 19: Some leaves to make cha?
    AAcross 22: Like viruses having a rest, lying back inside maple
    AAcross 24: Tidy, maintained without muck for a start
    AAcross 26: See 25
    AAcross 27: Fairy, perhaps, raised just over half a ton of cash to support tree strangled by branch
    AAcross 28: Stop propaganda happening
    AAcross 29: The wrong way for TV presenters to pour wine
    DDown 1: Upper house covering little Australian paperwork
    DDown 2: Dog or worm is up an instrument
    DDown 3: No thanks to Garbo, Monroe wandering in space backstage
    DDown 4: Current king in approach to palace, scratching bottom
    DDown 5: Curry from Lithuania? Not quite!
    DDown 6: Nation supporting lead player in Chad every so often
    DDown 7: Port, after lid removed, passed round the wrong way
    DDown 8: Thug eating up junket for starters — it's coated in breadcrumbs
    DDown 14: Earth, say, on English sycamore
    DDown 16: Setter with water living on fruit
    DDown 18: Fool Oscar but not Wilde?
    DDown 18: Fool Oscar but not Wilde?
    DDown 19: Most painful? Then put your feet up
    DDown 20: Somewhere dangerous, exciting to see
    DDown 20: Somewhere dangerous, exciting to see
    DDown 21: Rash appearing as potty put on head
    DDown 23: Contract required while in shelter
    DDown 25: Old document, Reform Act (anagram)MAGNA
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