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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 18th September 2014

There are 16 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 18th September 2014. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Down with runners fitted with electronic part of 8 21 25BLUESKIES
AAcross 6: See 16
AAcross 8: Possible allusion to Fitzgerald's work about dynasty: "A major 20th-century contribution to culture"THEGREAT
AAcross 9: Timber-lined housing contributor to 8 21 25
AAcross 10: Start a new paragraph: "Accepted depression ..."?
AAcross 11: Made upright again, so not officially recognised by the Stock Exchange?
AAcross 12: Religious choir leader causing prison uprising on Dartmoor, say
AAcross 15: Fort put right inside specially constructed moatTHEALAMO
AAcross 16: You name it, it's acceptable as part of 8 21 25
AAcross 19: Peelers' practice of immersing the underworld in biblical content, briefly
AAcross 21: See 8
AAcross 22: Old drink, one much represented in 8 21 25
AAcross 24: Violet almost lodging with love
AAcross 25: See 8
AAcross 26: Great interpreter of 8 21 25 (but not the one mentioned therein)ELLA
AAcross 27: Record past, up to yesterday's ultimate revelation
DDown 1: Playwright: "I didn't get that in bar"BEHAN
DDown 2: Gunshot tune played as preparation
DDown 3: Sensed salmon
DDown 4: Battered tin (result of too much rain) being cared for
DDown 5: Officer getting vessel to change direction
DDown 6: Gloria's sporting fine opal
DDown 7: Fancy rim is deep, which is not skin-deep
DDown 13: A word to the wise exemplifies such usage of a retuned mandolin
DDown 14: Fixed, in-car, flashy water holder
DDown 17: "Matron, I developed stomach pains"
DDown 18: Kelly and relative forming group?
DDown 20: Persistent Egyptian god breaks twice as much, having no oxygen
DDown 22: Lowbrow entertainment — god, turn over!
DDown 23: Perverse old you, catching a viral disease which is connected with resin
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