The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 20th October 2016

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 20th October 2016. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Running eccentric kind of swindle
AAcross 9:	Strength of company data starts to convince you
AAcross 10:	Church stopping dubious sexual activity
AAcross 11:	Her pa heads off for a time
AAcross 12:	Summer activity?
AAcross 13:	Noticed his revelling is devoted to pleasure
AAcross 15:	Ladies' fingers and thumbs up Rihanna's clothes
AAcross 18:	Revolutionary from the Right is wrong
AAcross 20:	Flatters dull single females
AAcross 23:	Idealistic, bone idle male seething in discontented netherworld
AAcross 25:	Sister, in turn, nipped out regularly
AAcross 26:	Cryptic clues are mostly profane
AAcross 27:	Nice solvers hug Arachne on edges of Edmonton Green
AAcross 28:	During marvellous tar sands trip espied colours of America
DDown 1:	Spooner's pawned pet for something to wear
DDown 2:	Scrooge briefly pulling up
DDown 3:	Shame of short little chap, embraced by couple extremely naughtily
DDown 4:	Perhaps unknown port in African country
DDown 5:	Student pass many picked up
DDown 6:	It's semaphore, of course
DDown 7:	Daughters lost to dice and drink in place where blades are used
DDown 8:	Woman scrubbing edges of most floors
DDown 14:	Doggedly continue what ironmonger did, conserving energy	SOLDIERON
DDown 16:	They burn croissants, scraping off carbon vigorously
DDown 17:	Discard port, subject to legal constraints
DDown 19:	Novel cocktail of beer and cocoa, but no eggs
DDown 21:	Dog returned, holding letter and pen
DDown 22:	Anglo-Saxon supporting angry cry: "Greece for the Greeks!"	HELLAS
DDown 23:	Bouquets of new flowers right away
DDown 24:	Clobber Doctor Seuss, gutted about end of tale