The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 5th August 2019

There are 19 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 5th August 2019. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Thoughtful writers I have to follow
AAcross 5:	Leave the ground: why I have to use the stairs?
AAcross 5:	Leave the ground: why I have to use the stairs?
AAcross 10:	Also about to seize island
AAcross 11:	This has one in mansion tossing and turning
AAcross 12:	Delay girl's return
AAcross 13:	Religious leader you once made into cartoon character	POPEYE
AAcross 14:	Stockpiling a large display board
AAcross 15:	From fancy niche one takes a jaundiced view
AAcross 16:	Incompatible ingredients in strong spirit
AAcross 19:	Prepare to forge currency
AAcross 21:	Daughter finished the port
AAcross 24:	Sharp replies to stories circulating about parking
AAcross 26:	An upper-class girl? A girl	ANGELA
AAcross 27:	The high point of a Devon holiday
AAcross 28:	Just this big? Not any more
AAcross 29:	Supports holding large implement
AAcross 30:	Insult a political organisation in speech
AAcross 31:	One inactive as supporter of the railway
DDown 2:	Prudent management shows class of airline
DDown 3:	Period one could see as emptier
DDown 4:	Flower — love it to bits
DDown 6:	Emphatically how contract may be reached
DDown 7:	Swollen stomach: girl's knocked up
DDown 8:	Pottery smashed by fiancee
DDown 9:	Unsightly dirt spread by producers of consumer goods	LIGHTINDUSTRY
DDown 17:	Hypotenuse is close
DDown 18:	A regular figure in defence of America
DDown 20:	Small reduction is unfair	ABITOFF
DDown 22:	General change is swell
DDown 23:	In fish, a length of bone
DDown 25:	Old and sullen by repute