The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 4th January 2017

There are 15 across clues and 12 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 4th January 2017. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Secretary — person with importance that tops the pile?
AAcross 9:	New classes seeing how films are recorded
AAcross 10:	Drive back suspect, like top-class fighter of old
AAcross 11:	Freshly crowned leaders of Greece and Rome put down
AAcross 12:	Little devil that's caught cutting part of plant
AAcross 13:	See 14
AAcross 14:	Cereal crop cut at end of season for nominal fee
AAcross 16:	Great sport with deer — sadly it'll set you back a bit
AAcross 19:	See 16
AAcross 20:	Poor journalist longing to get back outside
AAcross 21:	Muse as setter consumes exotic lemon pie I overlooked
AAcross 23:	Eg Boris's message rejected by Scotsman
AAcross 24:	Good place for reception where trouble may flare up?
AAcross 24:	Good place for reception where trouble may flare up?
AAcross 25:	Slips in field, perhaps, chasing cunning wingers
DDown 1:	New Father Ted plot curtly condemned as child's work	PETERANDTHEWOLF
DDown 2:	Authentic sound coming from cockle
DDown 3:	Novelist's career to come to an end
DDown 4:	Chilled dessert served up after rest	EASEDUP
DDown 5:	Grouse, maybe, as valiant effort restricts runs
DDown 6:	Eponymous man of Nazareth appearing randomly in records
DDown 7:	Criminal deferring pint, impressed by police?
DDown 8:	In office, reasonably well placed	SITTINGPRETTY
DDown 15:	Cyclist skirting large metropolis, Rome perhaps
DDown 17:	One state's revolutionary broadcast blocked by another
DDown 18:	First to last, benefit in backing police is hard to fathom
DDown 22:	Bizarre public reaction, battle being lost