The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 18th August 2017

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 18th August 2017. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Silly me, sure a fiddle featured in opera	DIEFLEDERMAUS
AAcross 10:	Cross capital, say, to give evidence
AAcross 11:	Court summons gangster caught having sex earlier
AAcross 12:	Strategy No 11 for an idiot
AAcross 13:	Found one soldier in elaborately decorated housing
AAcross 14:	Doctor pays out to this examining body?
AAcross 16:	Nuts about you, said film star
AAcross 18:	Heavenly choir's first seen after DIY mishap leads to bad back
AAcross 20:	Provision for baby agreed during brief correspondence
AAcross 21:	Absorbing content from singer-songwriter
AAcross 23:	Tips off cruel schoolmaster? That's odd
AAcross 24:	Love rat often providing inspiration for poet
AAcross 25:	A choreographer's entertaining friend that's French statesman
AAcross 26:	Führer's edict ruined unknown opera	DERFREISCHUTZ
DDown 2:	Tiny Tim's first single, oddly playing around America right now
DDown 3:	Where Puck gets a lot of stick, stalking female sculptor	FRINK
DDown 4:	Saving money excited holding company
DDown 5:	Muesli, a little yogurt, nuts — heaven!
DDown 6:	Plant herb, not rose, around ravine
DDown 7:	17 stuck halfway through Paul, Tramp, Vlad, even Rufus? Yes, initially
DDown 8:	More work required on song that's included with German opera	UTOPIALIMITED
DDown 9:	Bass has warning about fish in opera	ALBERTHERRING
DDown 15:	Murder, with bad language beforehand
DDown 17:	Setter, I'm cross about 7
DDown 19:	A newly invented word, eg acoge?
DDown 20:	Book by author with no energy blockages
DDown 22:	Brilliance of one of Elgar's Variations
DDown 23:	Having no starter, drink Scotch