The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 20th September 2018

There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 20th September 2018. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Take off underclothing, finding impurities
AAcross 5:	Humourless dandy recalled getting beaten by racketeer
AAcross 9:	Under discussion, heart unit
AAcross 10:	Bean soup, nothing less, for seconds?	RUNNERSUP
AAcross 11:	Note: I appreciate that award for a city on the Bay of Bengal
AAcross 12:	Material sensed
AAcross 14:	Relationships entered into by male artist with desire to eat after smoking a joint	THEMUNCHIES
AAcross 18:	Kind that's legally able to score in the box
AAcross 21:	What melts?
AAcross 22:	Shoe, shocking pink, that is for a dish
AAcross 25:	Repeating time after time after time, I love breaking in
AAcross 26:	Lake where a bore recedes
AAcross 27:	Lift near the ground
AAcross 28:	Tube ending in passage alongside canary, say, in mine
DDown 1:	Two months to boil down
DDown 2:	Fix round vessel for cake
DDown 3:	Following closely, a lot on site for development	NOSETOTAIL
DDown 4:	Shoot gun if really pressurised, snipers all heading northward
DDown 5:	Complex in Naples welcoming university in Calabria, say?
DDown 6:	Maverick offering drinks on the house?
DDown 7:	Shutting up gutless egotist is immense, as lippy perhaps?
DDown 8:	Stand in river maintaining exercise, upright
DDown 13:	Raise your voice about staff making errors	SCREWINGUP
DDown 15:	Performance killing act
DDown 16:	Maybe Celtic sofa initially like a bed?
DDown 17:	Illicitly, a romance being filmed
DDown 19:	See 6
DDown 20:	Soldiers one threat
DDown 23:	Star in Canis Minor goes round
DDown 23:	Star in Canis Minor goes round
DDown 24:	Dull gospeller to his familiars?