The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 7th May 2021

There are 17 across clues and 19 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 7th May 2021. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Excited cry from oaf
AAcross 9:	Excited cry from oaf
AAcross 10:	I go off pastry sent around by a restaurant
AAcross 11:	Herbivore long ago sorted out grasses, mostly
AAcross 12:	Officers soundly managed area of woodland
AAcross 13:	Visionary returns from hearing
AAcross 15:	Shows emotion and is destructive? Doesn't sound like it	TEARSUP
AAcross 17:	Despotic leader installed without a break
AAcross 17:	Despotic leader installed without a break
AAcross 18:	Role in Henry V sounds like something anyone could play	NYM
AAcross 20:	Ruse that helps player secure contract
AAcross 22:	See 3
AAcross 25:	Help with 24, a couple of 3 23
AAcross 26:	Audibly, complaint increased in volume
AAcross 27:	Legal agreements for shrinks
AAcross 30:	Problem for driver scrambling to reverse
AAcross 31:	Kind of love that's very open, like 8 and 15 exemplifying 3 7
DDown 1:	One or more positive responses viewers stated
DDown 2:	Forcibly removed — it's all over, one might say	THREWOUT
DDown 3:	Term implying wisdom that's peculiarly man's? I hope so
DDown 4:	Put under financial pressure, stop being crooked, we hear
DDown 5:	Sign of something extra, or amount of gold, announced as incentive
DDown 6:	Being governed by chance upset constituents of a Scottish Conservative
DDown 7:	Plots to use G sharp in new composition
DDown 8:	China's tea with pronounced difference
DDown 13:	Diarist has a furtive look, reportedly
DDown 14:	Letters he has put in post to North and South? It's left, if not right
DDown 16:	Fire controller for game
DDown 19:	Male is awfully randy, resulting in this?
DDown 21:	Mocking boy, one I expelled, that's heavily protected
DDown 23:	In triumph, one smashes cells, perhaps
DDown 24:	Shoot, with 26, a pair of 3 23
DDown 26:	Closing gap, don't stop thug
DDown 26:	Closing gap, don't stop thug
DDown 28:	As example of 3 18, raise back part …
DDown 29:	… or put an end to movement out of control