The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 1st May 2014

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 1st May 2014. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Sprinkler required after Penny gets border plant
AAcross 5:	Members of the aristocracy lounge on Sunday
AAcross 9:	Begin hostilities in a hot place
AAcross 10:	Wine stored in port and aged	PASTIT
AAcross 12:	Seeds taking some beating
AAcross 13:	Pinochet's muddled analysis of speech
AAcross 14:	A place for cropping trials in Slough	SHEARINGSHED
AAcross 18:	Ambitious and venomous reptile, one that's intelligent
AAcross 21:	European's gone? Put away
AAcross 23:	Promiscuous European after the toilets
AAcross 24:	Doctor broke tureen
AAcross 25:	Wayward congressman rejected poetry
AAcross 26:	Mention hiding earl's jacket
AAcross 27:	Pioneer showed the way in a state of shock
DDown 1:	Quick and easy victory in gymnastics
DDown 2:	High standards of ladies become corrupted
DDown 3:	Drink in training review
DDown 4:	Presently about to fall over transport — drawing amusement?	STRIPCARTOON
DDown 6:	Saw one’s daughter get on
DDown 7:	Absolutely impossible Conservative
DDown 8:	Dismiss Greek characters in team
DDown 11:	Chain of events making me infect food, accidentally
DDown 15:	German aristocrat always found in a car
DDown 16:	Lady reading about writer is a spoilsport
DDown 17:	Primate accepts Paul's dubious accolade
DDown 19:	Enclosure puts Rex in the pink
DDown 20:	Ambassador in sight of guillotine
DDown 22:	Foreigner is initially Sheffield United player