The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 7th August 2014

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 7th August 2014. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Quiet French writer recalled trees
AAcross 5:	Person robs poor to make cut?
AAcross 9:	Bed solicitor missing wife
AAcross 10:	Thinks too much of Gove (prat) — he's sacked heads about reading?
AAcross 11:	The split, without a majority, it could turn to red or blue
AAcross 12:	"Perhaps we give money to poor now?" (Shapps, surprisingly)
AAcross 14:	Drop off in calls after bank's closure — protection for consumers rolled into these?	NAPKINRINGS
AAcross 18:	Act while describing series of holes in changes of policy
AAcross 21:	Hunt ignoring hospital patient
AAcross 22:	Fliers distributed; sheet contains mockery
AAcross 25:	Balls is mad near Pickles
AAcross 26:	Campaign entry
AAcross 27:	More poor in northeast, back on dole, have had it, right?
AAcross 28:	Give up place: pile
DDown 1:	Left shows contempt about cuts
DDown 2:	Home secretary's border chaos
DDown 3:	Formal lie — Cameron after Labour
DDown 4:	See 12
DDown 5:	Start to squeeze proportion working
DDown 6:	Writer cut Boris off
DDown 7:	Focuses on leading schools again
DDown 8:	Sick feeling question avoided, it's simple
DDown 13:	Time to deteriorate? Quite, in a way that might be naïve
DDown 15:	Supplies spin round seller in US
DDown 16:	US warehouse guy and soldier after part for gun
DDown 17:	Can head to pound store
DDown 19:	It might make polls, we hear? Con: missing last three
DDown 20:	Clarke perhaps backing a vote against African
DDown 23:	Warsi's allowed house plant
DDown 24:	Lord's letters, partly 14	INRI