The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 21st July 2017

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 21st July 2017. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	These people in set, facing rogue, avenged	THEMAGNIFICENT
AAcross 8:	See 1
AAcross 9:	Admonishing slap here — ow! — for a change, I hypothesise
AAcross 11:	A very short distance to track one's initial letter
AAcross 12:	Direction taken from A Man with Razor, cut around snout
AAcross 13:	Strip left zilch to imagination (sniggering at the back)
AAcross 15:	Year One singled out for concessions
AAcross 17:	Went back up tree, say, where children play with branches
AAcross 20:	Animal groups lecturer and academician meet at back of pub yard
AAcross 21:	Those held most dear live in a home
AAcross 23:	Dealing with discord in ranks?
AAcross 25:	Plunge nervously taken together with TV show stopper	VENTPLUG
AAcross 26:	Equal chance of gibe (just one) from Gavin Williamson?	AFAIR
AAcross 27:	See 26	CRACKOFTHEWHIP
DDown 1:	Analyst nails big time with a "male" product
DDown 2:	"… and they all lived happily ever after"?
DDown 3:	Having undergone changes one rang in 1954 for Queen Elizabeth the Third!	ANNOREGNI
DDown 4:	Given bar tabs, you'll craftily show	NOTONLY
DDown 5:	Want means he left daughter destitute	FEELTHE
DDown 6:	Zero sugar, say, coating chocolate substitute
DDown 7:	Coke tin framed by doyens off the wall
DDown 10:	Outside ground depart to catch a noon carriage	HORSEANDTRAP
DDown 14:	Annual scrambling race on fringes of course	ONCEAYEAR
DDown 16:	Double up refashioning citadel walls
DDown 18:	See 4	BUTALSO
DDown 19:	See 5
DDown 22:	Blade that struggles to cut edges
DDown 24:	Poet's unworthy of town in South Wales