The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 21st August 2015

There are 15 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 21st August 2015. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Shape metal as the Rubicon crossed?
AAcross 5:	Lithuanian capital providing dandy start to long journey
AAcross 5:	Lithuanian capital providing dandy start to long journey
AAcross 9:	Wine staying dry then?
AAcross 10:	Telescope seeing far on the periphery in nuclear device
AAcross 11:	Winning team losing? That's muddled
AAcross 12:	Old South American driving endlessly?
AAcross 14:	Make the truth available to all, probing organic waste
AAcross 18:	All left-hand pages are still to go on book	EVENNUMBERS
AAcross 21:	Noble almost abandoning extremes
AAcross 22:	Train in a particular area requiring less pace, one twice derailed
AAcross 25:	In time, malfunctioning coils put out of place
AAcross 26:	Author elected to keep a tragedy in stock?
AAcross 27:	Pink bottom breaking eggs
AAcross 28:	Hollow cut in back for uniform
DDown 1:	Terrible killer, an idiot
DDown 2:	Too much for two characters, say?
DDown 3:	Old lady of Turin turns up with car after arrival of the Messiah
DDown 4:	Stale when married? That's about right
DDown 5:	Foreign fliers beginning to fly at heads of untold falcons, flew madly
DDown 6:	Weary signal
DDown 7:	Meat giving one gout unfortunately, if unknown amount's consumed
DDown 8:	Japanese vessel may be heading to Newcastle, abandoned
DDown 13:	Sticking a blade nethermost — sliding around, is it?
DDown 15:	Ornate enamel apt for sign
DDown 16:	Back Duke Ellington for a start, on guitar
DDown 17:	Emotional disorder ending in Britain with relative in Brussels?
DDown 19:	Neglect a line in book of prayer
DDown 20:	Note of course, heard
DDown 23:	Seeing revolutionary monarch, shout "hooray"
DDown 24:	One's sat upon in non-U America, as an American might say?