The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 7th May 2018

There are 17 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 7th May 2018. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Complete diplomat excels thus
AAcross 4:	A rolling sea, too
AAcross 9:	My father's son? I don't know
AAcross 10:	A rhyme for elephant? That's incomprehensible
AAcross 11:	Part of opera needs quiet first — it's the law
AAcross 12:	No French can admit another European as emperor
AAcross 13:	Asking is difficult
AAcross 15:	Flat rate?
AAcross 16:	One with obsessive interest about fish
AAcross 17:	Take back on board
AAcross 21:	Suits people to curse
AAcross 22:	Fruit in old kitchen area
AAcross 24:	People such as this feel OK, surprisingly
AAcross 25:	First off, makes dirty picture
AAcross 26:	Dead, by collapsing here in hospital?
AAcross 26:	Dead, by collapsing here in hospital?
AAcross 27:	Purchase bananas, we hear, but not automatically
DDown 1:	Scott's hero in Russian garden	IVANHOE
DDown 2:	Stare goofily, seeing stunner
DDown 3:	Order arms, for example, for the military
DDown 5:	Careless and sentimental about love, primarily
DDown 6:	Very enthusiastic e-bulletin put out
DDown 7:	Scientist's garment of short, dense hair?
DDown 8:	Power behind the throne terrible in emergencies
DDown 14:	Target a friend of the family?	AUNTSALLY
DDown 16:	Suffered possibly painful eruption, by gum!
DDown 18:	Haughtily, ladies entering a horse-drawn carriage
DDown 19:	Regularly drew beer up and feasted
DDown 20:	Heavens! The French abuse a speaker
DDown 23:	Particular smell in Emilia-Romagna