The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 24th March 2017

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 24th March 2017. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Sugar, perhaps, needing part, say, for complete payment
AAcross 5:	Gold, auric edges in pen containing a metalloid
AAcross 9:	Groups of bones in this ratio passed to the left
AAcross 10:	Lower seams burst as tight on both sides of tanga
AAcross 11:	Scot, a head welcoming lecturer in religious education
AAcross 12:	Relish decline
AAcross 14:	David was his second outstanding challenge, I suspect
AAcross 18:	Deliver position that's autonomous
AAcross 21:	Weed in pool
AAcross 22:	Wood given pen to outline role of someone directly involved	FIRSTPARTY
AAcross 25:	Downtrodden thing in the way, a solver	SCARPETTA
AAcross 26:	Capital given stick by artist
AAcross 27:	Unseeing as a 25-letter alphabet, did you say?
AAcross 28:	Eventual consumer always touring state in Midwest America
DDown 1:	Possibly toxic sanction well short
DDown 2:	Solver left a bit
DDown 3:	Tell tales about duke on starter of tempura being least fat
DDown 4:	Solver, member of secret society
DDown 5:	Like a rabbit, say, albeit modified in corporeal form
DDown 6:	Piffle on a list
DDown 7:	Solver a shade upset about Paul, ultimately, as writer
DDown 8:	Best solver embodying Holmes, initially
DDown 13:	Eliciting a yawn perhaps as beginning to nod, rip undies off
DDown 15:	Last of money on account invested in reminder to put on his evacuated bloomers
DDown 16:	It suggests I step on virgin snow	OFFPISTE
DDown 17:	In general, violin required for solver	LESTRADE
DDown 19:	Ending in ignorance, solver finds god in the dark
DDown 20:	Conclusion of narrative in unfolding story, a world of possibilities?
DDown 23:	Solver as pack member
DDown 24:	Copy walls in southern part of church