The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 17th January 2014

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 17th January 2014. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Flying ace meets tennis champ in town	BIGGLESWADE
AAcross 9:	Release John and Bob in a foreign setting
AAcross 10:	Huge statues: unfinished seconds, originally Italian
AAcross 11:	Verbal adjective in "poor undeserving pair of Poles dismissed"
AAcross 12:	Soprano's profession, reportedly self-confessed, is killing
AAcross 13:	Small jumper? Medium? John's the smallest
AAcross 14:	Principal thing for a poser to say: "It's all brawn in LA"
AAcross 16:	Model beaten up in poorly lit backstreet nearest the centre
AAcross 19:	What upset John — possibly …
AAcross 21:	… his bottom being pinched by Richard in class?
AAcross 22:	Part of car where electrician briefly has trailer attached
AAcross 22:	Part of car where electrician briefly has trailer attached
AAcross 24:	Surprised if Iceland keeps building
AAcross 25:	Perhaps reading or writing about boring, boring writer
AAcross 26:	Late-night "entertainers" mangling Gay Gordons outside church? Not unknown!	GOGODANCERS
DDown 1:	"Strictly" does it for Rambo — LOL!
DDown 2:	Filled out a complaint, say
DDown 3:	Delete one broadcast — it's Gone With The Wind, currently
DDown 4:	Follow first of delinquents before stuttering copper's turned up
DDown 5:	Holding hands — get off, OK?
DDown 6:	One that wrote of Irish rights, including related English issue	ERSKINECHILDERS
DDown 7:	One that hits on the cuddly type in secret
DDown 8:	Hippy movement using horses, reportedly, in Western Isles and Wales (never the South)
DDown 15:	Short-lived navy beheaded John, perhaps
DDown 16:	See 7
DDown 17:	Fool is at first taken in by damsel in distress
DDown 18:	Wrong about function taken by daughter substitute
DDown 20:	See 8
DDown 23:	King lying in state? That is for Requiem Mass, partly