The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 12th July 2016

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 12th July 2016. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 7:	Redress nature of regressive Right	MAKEUPFOR
AAcross 8:	Race shows guts of rider, Byelorussian
AAcross 9:	Rider penalised, prepares for a fight: conduct ultimately improper, they say
AAcross 10:	Personal opinion expressed here on podium finish by bike
AAcross 12:	Rider, a man of iron, grabs opportunity	FROOME
AAcross 13:	Depressingly, rider lay injured
AAcross 14:	Anticipating feverish duel, Europe embraces the crossbar!
AAcross 17:	Wheeler-dealers substituting one of riders after start of Tour
AAcross 20:	Brassica, some brown cabbage and cauliflower heads and cooking oil
AAcross 22:	Reply exposing fallacy, using tenets extant ab initio
AAcross 24:	An Englishman in France, perhaps unknown during record comeback
AAcross 25:	They race across France, starving, beaten on top of the Tourmalet	TGVTRAINS
AAcross 26:	No! Time flies before hard grind
AAcross 27:	He was close to a beast and, in a way, closer	ANDROCLES
DDown 1:	More sporting provisions in report on rider's backers
DDown 2:	These French, on a roll, find no place to swim
DDown 3:	Spaced-out Boatman lost bearings around Paris
DDown 4:	Contador, top undone, working up a storm
DDown 5:	Where riders in fleet race round all over the place	LETOUR
DDown 6:	Boatman (Boatman?!) said to be a descender?
DDown 11:	Go quickly on descent: evidence of regret?
DDown 15:	Copying style? Ignore two times
DDown 16:	See 11
DDown 18:	See 5	DEFRANCE
DDown 19:	Rider triumphs, taking on Italian legend with force	WIGGINS
DDown 21:	Perhaps rider in lead to take on large entry
DDown 22:	King of the Mountains' features: most fans need them
DDown 23:	Where more than one rider is seen in A & E