The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 27th February 2015

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 27th February 2015. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Where you might find sheep to hug
AAcross 5:	Tamper with gold or silver, by the sound of it?
AAcross 8:	Erratic leader of London embroiled in capital cock-up
AAcross 9:	Artist admitted to revolutionary artist's workshop
AAcross 11:	Sorrowful musings, having called honeymoon off	ODEONMELANCHOLY
AAcross 12:	Food from cooks in Hackney
AAcross 13:	New home, tax-free, that is housing five
AAcross 17:	Love plumpness? It's a puffed-up quality
AAcross 18:	Force back cold brandy
AAcross 20:	Imprisoned old fellow given sentence before it's too late
AAcross 23:	Intended, without waiting, to break ruler
AAcross 24:	Miserable wretch in sort of cloth hat
AAcross 25:	A setter — one in the money!
AAcross 26:	One won't stand for teacher penning dry English
DDown 2:	Cracked town walls in dark shade offering a short cut?	NUMBERTWO
DDown 3:	Southern and Indian cane so in need of cultivation?
DDown 4:	Round object made without a saw
DDown 5:	Tea from the south Tuscan town
DDown 6:	Politician's curse about rejected advance
DDown 7:	Zip up coat of gigolo making speech
DDown 8:	Reason to fall out of boat one scuttled with sharp tool	ABONETOPICK
DDown 10:	Maybe ABBA anthem cut short amid wild cheers by yours truly	RHYMESCHEME
DDown 14:	Clearly not straight bypasses in suburbia?
DDown 15:	Put slant on current story — one Conservative is involved
DDown 16:	Spooner's in favour of county, it's guaranteed
DDown 16:	Spooner's in favour of county, it's guaranteed
DDown 19:	Rancid milk on the turn? Exactly	OFFPAT
DDown 21:	Figure in time line
DDown 22:	Metal block's hot, with raised thermal resistance