The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 28th July 2016

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 28th July 2016. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Writer, illustrator, top farceur and snooker player	BEATRIX
AAcross 5:	Elemental form is uppermost in poet's heart
AAcross 10:	Brave enormous halves switch sides
AAcross 11:	Climbing with difficulty, get lost jewellery
AAcross 12:	See 1
AAcross 13:	It's for picking fruit et cetera, occasionally netted
AAcross 14:	Trunk's for governor protecting social centre
AAcross 16:	Dull Black Country character of 1 12
AAcross 17:	Greens back US city, ousting Liberal
AAcross 19:	Idiot pays criminal for property of 6 23
AAcross 23:	See 6
AAcross 24:	Bane of 26, teacher's pet ultimately
AAcross 26:	Oddly, more mice busily gorge on rare 1 12 character	MRMCGREGOR
AAcross 27:	A country's seabirds
AAcross 28:	Spots wine, then loses it	SEESRED
AAcross 29:	Prepare to print 50-peseta curtains
DDown 2:	European guy mounts Guardian's entrance
DDown 3:	Daily crime perpetrated by 24s
DDown 4:	Leaflets in series that is withdrawn for a short time
DDown 6:	US male's crazy about tiny margin for 1 12 character
DDown 7:	Everyone in the Times drinks? They're incredible	TALLTALES
DDown 8:	English university invested in secure publisher
DDown 9:	Ginger had pics Photoshopped as part of this work
DDown 15:	They give support thus, when they're eaten by 24s
DDown 18:	A short way to get round hardwood supplier
DDown 20:	Picture four rivers, one flowing into another
DDown 21:	1 12 character ignores Iggy — stars do it
DDown 22:	I'm surprised troops nearly block river	DEARME
DDown 25:	Poet, painter and illustrator left to cook hogs