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The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 20th September 2017

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 20th September 2017. View the answers below..

The Answers

Number# Clue Answer
AAcross 8: Poet, otherwise sister to poet and painter
AAcross 9: American who had four sisters in family in rural cottage
AAcross 10: Humorous writer, tragic figure abused by children
AAcross 11: Poet and novelist whose father was a detective
AAcross 12: Brothers putting together macabre writingGRIMMS
AAcross 14: Mother dismissing the recorder of minutes for legal writer
AAcross 15: Novelist repeating conclusion reached by member of 22 across's family
AAcross 17: A book revised in new volume for son of Russian statesman
AAcross 20: Source of novel combination of children and partners
AAcross 22: Novelist finding little energy in dotty aunts
AAcross 23: He wrote about brothers in party changing votes — heavens!
AAcross 24: Friends of French literary father and son
AAcross 25: Etonian yearbook author whose elder sibling saw everything
AAcross 26: Martin's father, 19th-century novelistKINGSLEY
DDown 1: Happen in company encountered on way from ParisCOMETRUE
DDown 2: Ruler initially used in producing triangle, square and rectangle
DDown 3: Spears and bows
DDown 4: Cover up work of 22 across that's problematic
DDown 5: Cause of illness in kind of camel endlessly needing drug injected
DDown 6: Offensive son, eager to learn about right, left separately
DDown 7: Performer's assistant goes to pieces when given new order
DDown 13: Relatively small groups one newcomer upset in digs
DDown 16: In loving way, making proposal, with lady taking no notice
DDown 18: Singular craft seen in short humorous piece
DDown 19: Clearly produces Hawaiian instrument or Japanese ornament
DDown 21: On vessel overseas with king going south
DDown 22: In a US city married undistinguished person
DDown 24: Fail as boy, being oddly deficient in addition
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