The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 5th April 2018

There are 14 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 5th April 2018. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Unseen decision-maker's habit: getting drunk Earl to join clubs, maybe?	GREYSUIT
AAcross 9:	Medium, right before "goodbye" cut off
AAcross 10:	Drug user represented by a police chief
AAcross 11:	Unvarnished truth that prairie dwellers need to be aware of?	PLAINFACTS
AAcross 12:	Political supporter's note secured in advance
AAcross 14:	Uncontrolled movement in tempered steel nut
AAcross 16:	Shakespearean character's pieces
AAcross 18:	Curios once associated with ears (advanced)
AAcross 21:	To encourage old men, be dishevelled!
AAcross 23:	Understand about the month having turned, so withdraw
AAcross 24:	Inner Greenland is in her itinerary, being cut off
AAcross 26:	Dries out properties that are distressing to be in
AAcross 27:	Run one of the film crowd
AAcross 28:	Dual power priest involved in version of Buddhism that was full of gas
DDown 1:	Badger king's lacking coil-shaped vegetable
DDown 2:	Old composer's lark given voice?
DDown 3:	Place in natural shade
DDown 4:	See 26 across
DDown 5:	The young Thatcher's terrible means of punishment?
DDown 6:	Italicised "twirls" not practical
DDown 7:	Left beside a large, imposing gate
DDown 13:	Church members' ways are about its conversion
DDown 15:	It shows drug's "up" times
DDown 17:	Guided element of a type of display
DDown 19:	Cried out: "Potassium in drink!"
DDown 20:	Major organisation, with Zambia in fore, oddly reacted to global warming?
DDown 22:	See 5
DDown 23:	Exercises, that's the thing between drinks!
DDown 25:	See 10
DDown 26:	Produced a tinkle, inverted and low