The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 17th January 2020

There are 16 across clues and 13 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 17th January 2020. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Boatman catches a crab — strangely shocking
AAcross 5:	Saucy postcard, not right to publish to online audience
AAcross 10:	Sauce from the heart of Czechoslovakia's capital	RAGU
AAcross 11:	First to try lead part with singers in audition: they get a good reception	TVANTENNAS
AAcross 12:	Cyclisme à vélo?
AAcross 13:	Motley beast or bad boy once
AAcross 14:	Pole loses ice, melting first
AAcross 16:	Cleaner to hearten lady? Quite the opposite
AAcross 17:	Boatman — to relish, ultimately, or detest
AAcross 19:	'Cheap digs', opined resentful Spooner
AAcross 23:	Cruets of liquid sugar
AAcross 24:	Herbs: bases for sauces, say
AAcross 25:	Game animal, endangered (about the last in Punjab) in organised slaughter	CUPANDBALL
AAcross 26:	See 16
AAcross 27:	Rising at first, but getting smaller overall
AAcross 28:	UK citizen stands by Labour leader boxed in by Trotskyite extremes, likely to snap
DDown 2:	Baffled by sensational wordplay with nine letters missing
DDown 3:	Initially, Alexander's charming
DDown 4:	Lower part of rigging cut from triangle, part of a ladder
DDown 6:	Love, dropping its first subtle shimmering
DDown 7:	Trick to snort some drug in
DDown 8:	Get to the top on Tyneside?
DDown 9:	Evergreen version of pea, encased in pot
DDown 15:	Initially sleepy, got up, then tea: in winter you may need more than one of these
DDown 18:	Permit one to move after damaging allegations
DDown 20:	Two left arms waving?
DDown 21:	Set the trend, able to ignore the odds
DDown 22:	Little information about vintage
DDown 24:	Change of direction in match