The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 7th January 2020

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 7th January 2020. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 7:	Member of the force working on a lead?
AAcross 8:	Writer finds way into literary festival
AAcross 9:	Briefest break since son climbs into bed
AAcross 10:	Cooker at home once more
AAcross 12:	Newspaper feature generates support
AAcross 13:	In revolutionary China, run by Mao, mostly as leader
AAcross 14:	Little Boy Blue's triumph
AAcross 17:	Most elevated dizzy heights
AAcross 20:	Helmsman to steer south-west, carried by third person
AAcross 22:	Small and large specimen
AAcross 24:	Judge an American god
AAcross 25:	Battle 4, perhaps, to stop in London
AAcross 26:	The Guardian and Independent read inside out? Strange
AAcross 27:	Warship's funny story, invading two rivers
DDown 1:	Main chant as cyclist retires — hard to puncture two tyres	YOHOHO
DDown 2:	Noble is 1, 2, 3, 4, say, after 5?
DDown 3:	Finally, when telephone call is on hold
DDown 4:	Fabulous bird raised, literally, on an island
DDown 5:	Pester animal
DDown 6:	Mixed salad around space station leads to butterflies
DDown 11:	Duty on first vehicle
DDown 15:	Setter eats old stew alone
DDown 16:	Collect new paper, missing one page
DDown 18:	Poet finishes regularly ahead of racing driver
DDown 19:	Defenceless woman's right by the sea
DDown 21:	See 25
DDown 22:	Protection, for example, hiding iron shirt
DDown 23:	One idly passing time arranging flora around the end of June