The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 26th May 2017

There are 13 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 26th May 2017. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	A small drink including minimum of table wine for starters
AAcross 10:	Scrub backs in the lower area, various vertebrae
AAcross 11:	Utter fool to get help
AAcross 12:	More war-wounded, number hard to forget?
AAcross 13:	Channel slips by this?
AAcross 14:	Extreme agony among legation trained to embrace sport
AAcross 16:	Man of God in Ireland, eg reformed chief executive	DIRECTORGENERAL
AAcross 19:	Army rank rejected in case of gerund being a lexicographical oddity
AAcross 21:	Small group covering article in soil, turned over
AAcross 22:	See 14
AAcross 23:	See 25
AAcross 24:	Man bit arm
AAcross 25:	Cutting hedges optional — sense avoiding the thorny bits?
DDown 1:	Long canine in Dracula, I guess, as long when oddly shaped?
DDown 2:	Label outlining conclusion of anal pedant
DDown 3:	Weird seeing something brown in blue
DDown 4:	Druggie into Jailhouse Rock
DDown 5:	Free design smeared on grey
DDown 6:	Slowly drain English river and Irish county
DDown 7:	Thespian, one supporting someone with a ladder
DDown 8:	See 23
DDown 14:	Faith being questioned in party heading for office, amid dubious claims
DDown 15:	Avaricious type like godhead coming in earlier after greedy principal
DDown 17:	Salts with it in boxes
DDown 18:	Having scratched bottom, chance to embrace scent around rear of khazi, causing inflammation of nose
DDown 20:	Specialist with bat or jemmy, perhaps?
DDown 21:	Suspicion surrounding Beethoven's Ninth in electronic music
DDown 22:	Mistake reporting Italian river in Bangkok?
DDown 23:	Break in end of paragraph where N-Z found to include L