The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 13th December 2016

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 13th December 2016. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Archdeacon returning to a tribe as US resident
AAcross 5:	Cook has little time left to join in ceremonial feast
AAcross 9:	Men switching sides in a city of trials
AAcross 10:	Lose time offering support
AAcross 11:	Way of speaking not unusual in one country
AAcross 12:	Eagle shortly crossing island, a poetic land
AAcross 14:	Tubes bringing a form of medication to stop decay
AAcross 18:	Subatomic particle in nature not transformed
AAcross 21:	Irish poet contributing to event at Easter
AAcross 22:	Outside shelter there's rain so terribly loud and powerful
AAcross 25:	Good foreign deity with strange instrument
AAcross 26:	Weapon in sack
AAcross 27:	Demanding type, discarded player
AAcross 28:	Horse keeping dry, put back as before
DDown 1:	Monster that is spotted south of headland
DDown 2:	Men in street returning after farewell
DDown 3:	Party with small booze containers for the monks	DOMINICANS
DDown 4:	Man said brief word of farewell at end of day
DDown 5:	Cop having to get round? Simple with quality car
DDown 6:	Peg, little wife held to be quaint
DDown 7:	Excellent waste pipe trapping carbon pollutant
DDown 8:	Fellow in criminal activity as one looking for kicks
DDown 13:	Sail with a thousand on a cruise at sea
DDown 15:	One may give smashing Yule report with no end of turkey supplied?
DDown 16:	Noticed upturned furniture item fit for the skip?
DDown 17:	Kid in ruin needing a bit of money in Bulgaria
DDown 19:	Is head of French in university an oddball?
DDown 20:	Home nurse being mean
DDown 23:	This person in hospital sent up labels
DDown 24:	The measure of a Labour leader