The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 16th August 2017

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

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Spitfire's first fliers circling old planes
AAcross 5:	Illegal recording of John, mostly bent over in toilet
AAcross 9:	Flipping once more given food delay
AAcross 10:	Drunk a lot in Love Me Tender
AAcross 11:	Insists on giving vital supplies in church — payment invested in crosses	FORCEFEEDS
AAcross 12:	Headed over to independent store
AAcross 14:	Scheduling in Graceland tours
AAcross 18:	Broke vow: recorded and jammed
AAcross 21:	Bass: turn way down
AAcross 22:	Concerned with soldier, intellectual, from a group of soldiers
AAcross 25:	Set characteristic cryptic clue; initially missing Nina
AAcross 26:	Go off, that's all right
AAcross 27:	Those screaming as Presley gyrates
AAcross 28:	One thinks about lives one harms
DDown 1:	Provided lift? No chance!	SODOFF
DDown 2:	Kind of blue shoe
DDown 3:	One struts around in terrible film? Rubbish
DDown 4:	Material did rock for the audience
DDown 5:	Carving top of dry bread, one getting spread out
DDown 6:	After passing, notice cycle right away
DDown 7:	Hang on! That is pants
DDown 8:	Row over golf: good golfer admits they don't have balls
DDown 13:	Jailhouse workers struggle with habit (drugs)
DDown 15:	Unfinished business in toilet — how Elvis begins to die in smalls	LOOSEENDS
DDown 16:	Drug ring — Yankee showing sign of overindulgence
DDown 17:	Worst hit: is second record turned over?
DDown 19:	Plays with bodyguards protecting president (ignoring Pence)
DDown 20:	One moving smoothly back to Vegas appearing on top show
DDown 23:	One left European Union — member which might help form motion?
DDown 24:	King originally called for a bit of leg