The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 12th April 2018

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 12th April 2018. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 7:	Bawdy author's first mob, so to speak
AAcross 9:	Kind of kitten or cat, one included in bill
AAcross 10:	Appear vaguely in room, where one goes mad unnoticed
AAcross 11:	Part of Atlantic's valuable reserve that's not yet exploited	VIRGINSOIL
AAcross 12:	Flowers return, fed with nitrogen, I detect
AAcross 14:	Be proud of rhubarb that Mrs Grundy's bottled
AAcross 15:	Two blokes meeting pedlar
AAcross 17:	What is in Washington? Start to explore and gape
AAcross 20:	He led miners from cliff to ravine	SCARGILL
AAcross 22:	I have no leisure — almost behind, for example, in verse
AAcross 23:	Huge old quantity halved in a sort of arithmetic
AAcross 24:	Lied about being unemployed
AAcross 25:	For delivery to a force to be reckoned with	CAREOF
AAcross 26:	Keeping wife and Jack working, makes index
DDown 1:	Pen a note: check boxes measuring small dimensions
DDown 2:	European misses out on a new beginning
DDown 3:	Be undecided about one claim forgone
DDown 4:	I make careless mistake in feeble poem, after change of heart
DDown 5:	More than one firm Tory type rejecting Heath from tedium
DDown 6:	Sympathised with one sort of public house under pressure
DDown 8:	In predicament, fight with energy
DDown 13:	Top-class con man?	SUPERDUPER
DDown 16:	Very inaccurate shot (where one saw it coming?)	AMILEOFF
DDown 18:	Vineyard Frenchwoman runs with less compassion
DDown 19:	Some roofs are abused
DDown 21:	Church oversees exam for singers
DDown 22:	According to judges, sons are not consanguineous	INLAWS
DDown 24:	King cobra kills every other Russian	IGOR