The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 27th January 2016

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 27th January 2016. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Ulcers a problem over a very long period
AAcross 5:	Bird loses right wing, American casualty of bigger gusts
AAcross 9:	Platinum tongue-piercing
AAcross 10:	Platonic relationship initially producing this hormone
AAcross 11:	Conductors preferred batons to include beech core
AAcross 12:	See 6
AAcross 14:	Return to cover sermon on a way the state changes
AAcross 18:	Settles deal — building to be decorated with mosaics
AAcross 21:	Horse managed to cross ring
AAcross 22:	A farewell drink before riding iron vessel
AAcross 25:	Oxygen, say, emerges from parts of estate
AAcross 26:	Football team familiarly finishing season fifth in table
AAcross 27:	Lead and phosphorus sink
AAcross 28:	Trees here tend to wither, if pollarded
DDown 1:	Plate one exchanged for a set of cutlery
DDown 2:	Peasant farmer caught acting even more flamboyantly?
DDown 3:	Drew out pin around noon — after that, read intermittently
DDown 4:	Imitation piece about inclined neon light
DDown 5:	Poet eating nothing with daughter, blooming exhausted	POOPEDOUT
DDown 6:	Firm to pay for copper
DDown 7:	Grant entry to Mass, absorbed by hymn
DDown 8:	Nitrogen affected sound of handset
DDown 13:	No salt left! A terrible b-blunder
DDown 15:	Grant painter graphite, perhaps
DDown 16:	Features prominently on joint enterprise?
DDown 17:	At a function, carrying shabby clothes
DDown 19:	Start with carbon sequestration — it's lacking
DDown 20:	High-spirited double entendre has to stop — heavens!
DDown 23:	Synthetic compound controls essential movement of sulphur
DDown 24:	Oddly coloured lead