The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 9th April 2018

There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 9th April 2018. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	More open as a poker player?
AAcross 5:	Stay with the wretched Daniel, say
AAcross 9:	Did butterfly, perhaps, lead to illumination for mystic?
AAcross 10:	Kitty finally got fit in leisure facility
AAcross 11:	Mum and daughter collect underwear I dropped and put it on
AAcross 12:	Blue-eyed boy's rebellious action
AAcross 14:	Actor representing genuine class
AAcross 18:	Grasses break up topsoil at last, taking ages	STOOLPIGEONS
AAcross 21:	Adolescent's first kiss touching a bit of a nerve
AAcross 22:	Stroke heads of beagles eagerly advancing in anticipation
AAcross 25:	One helping Turkey and half of Uzbekistan start to thrive
AAcross 26:	Conclusion of movie, Three Kings, skirting over inaccuracy
AAcross 27:	Expand section of integral network retrospectively
AAcross 28:	The Spanish shunning sex and food
DDown 1:	Buxom little Maureen's turning into lad
DDown 2:	Ready for service, nuns gambolled every now and then
DDown 3:	Amicably finish with girl after 24 hours
DDown 4:	Regret eating extremely purgative Indian bread
DDown 5:	Multi-faceted dons exercise and do legal work
DDown 6:	Curse love, a source of troubled hearts
DDown 7:	They are frequent visitors, but he is a vagrant
DDown 8:	Very French attempt to seduce is wrong, legally
DDown 13:	Yankee puts on silly voice, regardless of what happens
DDown 15:	Arachne cries, seized by desire for surge of naughtiness
DDown 15:	Arachne cries, seized by desire for surge of naughtiness
DDown 16:	Mescal made skipping maidens go up the wall
DDown 17:	Massive column with rope around
DDown 19:	I hoard bananas in beehive, perhaps
DDown 20:	Worships alto and soprano after quarter of an octave
DDown 23:	Scotsman's armpit bitten by fox terrier
DDown 24:	Roots of St Ignatius Loyola, soldier and absolutist