The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 29th December 2016

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 29th December 2016. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	TS Eliot's timeless "Gnostic, quixotic sect member"	SCIENTOLOGIST
AAcross 10:	A case of what should properly be used to cover a floor
AAcross 11:	Field of European football team not banner-free?
AAcross 12:	Evacuation: one leaves before last of Tory Opposition
AAcross 13:	Find oneself getting round Aintree (beaten, outside time)
AAcross 14:	Allowance: Southend, given space, takes hint
AAcross 16:	Gruesomely large openings on total wreck of part of larynx
AAcross 18:	British sort of insult: "Camp outfit!"	BUTLINS
AAcross 20:	Cordial poured over hot body support
AAcross 21:	Not one initial interaction with USA, which went down controversially
AAcross 23:	Ray: gather name's changed to Miles
AAcross 24:	Stockhausen wasn't a heavyweight — a Lambert!
AAcross 25:	Tip over mock seaweed
AAcross 26:	Whose patients are laid back? Yes and no
DDown 2:	Not first winter transfer taken by Price, the player
DDown 3:	Reflective lines of energy on stage yard
DDown 4:	Rag label cover protecting ring
DDown 5:	Trailing insulation
DDown 6:	Radius covered by diagonal shaped candleholder
DDown 7:	Indian songbird — medicine man removes tail
DDown 8:	A drug-taking bicyclist is transforming ease of comprehension
DDown 9:	Decorating audacious men libels them
DDown 15:	English politics constituted of letters
DDown 17:	Ease up as a master sommelier? That's rude
DDown 19:	Plant used science to change carbon to oxygen
DDown 20:	Charing Cross? Exasperation!
DDown 22:	Star lives over a narrow cavity
DDown 23:	Greek pain container of legend