The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 1st March 2016

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 1st March 2016. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Need to hold marines back for airborne advance
AAcross 6:	Black tie initially discarded by firm
AAcross 9:	Leave by plane: deal with article first, or lose it
AAcross 10:	Hear such music unaccompanied
AAcross 11:	Relax: everything difficult has been done?	RESTEASY
AAcross 14:	Have suspicion stream all polluted	SMELLARAT
AAcross 15:	Looking back, hospital worker retired, leaving quietly
AAcross 16:	Hears appeal to Islamic leaders
AAcross 18:	I go ahead, not straight (keeping right twice), boy leading
AAcross 20:	Half-swearing, compulsory to include ’ell, say
AAcross 21:	Like to secure second book
AAcross 25:	Offer doubtful help — we had nothing Cantonese to cook	SEEWHATONECANDO
AAcross 26:	Umpire's call assumed reversible	NOTUP
AAcross 27:	Great distance I travelled with lethargy
DDown 1:	Initially, Gilbert holds back blows
DDown 2:	My husband and I? Just I	ROYALWE
DDown 3:	Dither, as a female among others
DDown 4:	In the grass, succeeded getting sexual satisfaction
DDown 5:	Group on which policeman may be shortly in case	THEBEATLES
DDown 6:	Bangs up doctor feeding jerks stimulating pills	SMARTDRUGS
DDown 7:	Lad just penetrated by tip of weapon that's piercing	BODYART
DDown 8:	Swindle by priest — you cover it up, that's all
DDown 12:	Stopped selling members-only arrangement
DDown 13:	Loose regulation of a branch of medicine
DDown 14:	Curling lip, a snob's finding this on tea tray?
DDown 17:	Distinguished artist seen on Tate Modern visit at last
DDown 19:	Cameron's extraordinary affair
DDown 22:	River that's spilled over track
DDown 23:	Hitch small horse
DDown 24:	Get away with wordless singing