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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 8th September 2016

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 8th September 2016. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 1: Not what a good retriever would suffer from?
AAcross 5: Slash well-built American
AAcross 9: Legs before energy gets to run out
AAcross 10: Angstrom bewitched women ultimately, pick-ups being his forte
AAcross 11: Ignorant of one French old coin with English date
AAcross 12: Bob's legs turned over
AAcross 14: Prompt idea for processing Maine silk
AAcross 18: Cool river by college, where memorable items are preserved
AAcross 21: See 6
AAcross 22: Cain converted by a religious person? Wrong
AAcross 25: A mere man's elected — that's unpardonable!
AAcross 26: Car provided with ring of sound
AAcross 27: Paving works at last
AAcross 28: Indulge in too much sex, as printers might do?
DDown 1: Lithium put in a double sulphate to make garlic, say
DDown 2: Relative bearing that's a relief
DDown 3: Risky market trader, ponderous type
DDown 4: Prophet's wife, one splitting tree with axe's leading edgeAISHA
DDown 5: Merest tap-dancing might get you round Nancy, saySTREETMAP
DDown 6: Enduring, so it seems to jaded scholars
DDown 7: A failing of powers of matinee idol's second cast?
DDown 8: Cy soundly sleeps with drugs, forming mental connections
DDown 13: Unsex poor Mae with loveless kiss
DDown 15: Possibly delivered by a GP doing as is ordered
DDown 16: Regular myth set in rich ground
DDown 17: Eve's material contribution to Chinese dish?
DDown 19: Footwear's the making of Sal
DDown 20: Computer feature more suitably stuck in well!
DDown 23: Accommodation swindle presented in two ways
DDown 24: Keen women are sick
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