The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 15th August 2017

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 15th August 2017. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Svelte supermodel turning 51, previously
AAcross 5:	Unfinished request to get reflux set in stone
AAcross 8:	Policy changes party leader welcomed as improvements
AAcross 9:	Salad's defect incurs punishment, going west	WALDORF
AAcross 11:	Fenland hero's English dessert — muscle coated with fish	HEREWARDTHEWAKE
AAcross 12:	Respite during cellulite reversal
AAcross 13:	Caper about, leg bone's blood group being altered by drug
AAcross 17:	Dance from Switzerland to city in France at 100 mph
AAcross 18:	Poet turned dull
AAcross 20:	Unimportant painting involving point of order
AAcross 23:	Violent crime in connected cells
AAcross 24:	The greatest love traduced inside air sacs
AAcross 25:	Musicians send naughty messages to alien
AAcross 26:	Tries tablets and speaks
DDown 2:	Bury one storyteller, mostly, among others
DDown 3:	Second stroke results in untidy writing
DDown 4:	Rush to interrupt teacher's Grauniad hallmark?
DDown 5:	Exercise intelligence of bird
DDown 6:	Dance-related dance quote upended
DDown 7:	Back scrubber turning a trick
DDown 8:	Concoction of chilli and black plum proves hard going	UPHILLCLIMB
DDown 10:	Composer, one carrying big picture with nothing on top	FRESCOBALDI
DDown 14:	Protect against wild speculation (odds off)
DDown 15:	Dread adopting digital applications on unknown ground
DDown 16:	Mournful map chap
DDown 19:	Wherewithal to cut music man's topknot
DDown 21:	Pretty girl's copper neckwear
DDown 22:	Implausibly good type ruined country