The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 17th October 2018

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

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Not many voters out in storm: it could ruin the night	LIGHTPOLLUTION
AAcross 8:	Satisfy a companion to S. Beauty?
AAcross 9:	Everything carried round is smashed
AAcross 11:	Groundbreaker I used in wharf
AAcross 12:	TV station securing opera about to broadcast
AAcross 13:	Last piece of music recorded twice by a UN secretary-general?
AAcross 15:	Dispose of foolish nonsense in contrasting volumes
AAcross 17:	Unmarked fruit kept in college is pulled out
AAcross 20:	Messenger's spoken, having lesson in two parts
AAcross 21:	Over time, sailor gets trim	TOSPARE
AAcross 23:	Power couple return to America as sex symbol
AAcross 25:	Think tooth — it chewed
AAcross 26:	Fail badly with a Japanese verse
AAcross 27:	Act superficially, ordering makeshift cures	SKIMTHESURFACE
DDown 1:	Repossessed house and office	LOSTPROPERTY
DDown 2:	Working month taken up with fertiliser
DDown 3:	That elementary particle finally revealing signature in air
DDown 4:	Produce more veg than what pokes out of the ground
DDown 5:	Shoot dead, holding automatic at first in both hands
DDown 6:	Worked in bathroom perhaps — it's over light
DDown 7:	One attending Macbeth in poorer age made to suffer
DDown 10:	Hurried up a stay in bed, worried for the NHS etc
DDown 14:	Assessed situation of a Hobbit clan	TOOKSTOCK
DDown 16:	Sentimental actor in summertime is captivated by rambling rose
DDown 18:	Bay where it all comes out?	THEWASH
DDown 19:	Regularly tempt to cut garment lower
DDown 22:	A kiss lifts me in Paris, as a rule
DDown 24:	Letters from secretary, a Chinese native