The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 18th February 2016

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 18th February 2016. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 7:	A western pie that's good cooked
AAcross 8:	West Country wench?
AAcross 9:	Solved a clue for part of the West Country	SORTEDOUT
AAcross 10:	Drink, second as chaser, to West Country
AAcross 12:	Where one would go to get food for native
AAcross 13:	Going west and not really caring — OK?
AAcross 14:	People who get together in cars around London's West End
AAcross 17:	From Dakota unto Nevada, somewhere in the West Country	TAUNTON
AAcross 20:	West Country's first to get noticed: mad about it
AAcross 22:	Carried too much from Calais, going west
AAcross 24:	Whence dawn breaks in the West Country	FROME
AAcross 25:	One lies dead, in a way perfected
AAcross 26:	State in Midwest
AAcross 27:	Many went to America — the Wild West — to find something to eat
DDown 1:	Unfairly put upon to confess where an American lives
DDown 2:	A contemptible person undermined by support for political activity
DDown 3:	Looked after some of the West End edition
DDown 4:	Firm stem
DDown 5:	Return to fashion? Expert embraces first principles with a twist
DDown 6:	Criticise nationwide absence of characters composing in style	WADEINTO
DDown 11:	Nixon, weak even in the Midwest?
DDown 15:	Western set in Oklahoma, product of miners hiding robbers' ringleaders	OKCORRAL
DDown 16:	West Country project in part of Scandinavia (not the south-west)
DDown 18:	US drug cops capture one from Mexico — yes, with plants
DDown 19:	Across top of Tombstone, ride up and take bullet; finally bit the dust	ATEDIRT
DDown 21:	Leader of thieves is out of time holding up miners, resisting attacks
DDown 22:	Marshal Earp is given commendation
DDown 23:	What would you call Boatman, if he retired in the West Country?	EXETER