The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 25th August 2016

There are 17 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 25th August 2016. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Setter, perhaps, a big hit in the East End?
AAcross 1:	Setter, perhaps, a big hit in the East End?
AAcross 4:	Pound on smart card about to beat online and high street retailing
AAcross 9:	Sound proposal for old king	OFFA
AAcross 10:	Airborne shooter in range, until shot	TAILGUNNER
AAcross 11:	German order for a cab
AAcross 12:	Russian war machine's flipping ace trifle!
AAcross 13:	Outstanding feature, beauty inspiring nothing by German author
AAcross 15:	See 1 down
AAcross 16:	1 down 15, humour lacking in me
AAcross 17:	Stage set in extra large retail outlet
AAcross 21:	Great pass, catcher on the turn
AAcross 22:	Stench from a red flower in washbasin
AAcross 24:	Skeletons in the closet try rattling chain in uproar
AAcross 25:	European president once of Harlech (Wales, apparently)
AAcross 26:	Supporter embarrassed by tackle from behind
AAcross 27:	See 25
DDown 1:	US showman, one settled in upstate New York?
DDown 2:	Asking how to create starter in a stew, tell me the plan!
DDown 3:	Too much land for an empire?
DDown 5:	What might make bird stick up for a vegetable?
DDown 6:	Criminal charge implicating Turkish leader in country after uprising
DDown 7:	Nicest forms with right angle for design template
DDown 8:	Withholding Christ's teaching, God is upset with incantation
DDown 14:	See 4	ANDMORTAR
DDown 16:	See 2
DDown 18:	US city putting worker in reference book, shortly
DDown 19:	Novel about German tennis player recited
DDown 20:	Wagnerian character may be drawing a pension before end of cycle
DDown 23:	Opener taking so long to secure victory