The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 24th September 2021

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 24th September 2021. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Apt reading Bond created	PADDINGTONBEAR
AAcross 8:	Cooking range that's popular once more
AAcross 9:	Aleksandr, Sergei and Oleg are just pets, I hear
AAcross 11:	Someone sure to succeed but isn't sharp
AAcross 12:	Cocktail attachment
AAcross 13:	Sub edited unfinished column
AAcross 15:	Classmates or upper-class mates?
AAcross 17:	Wader changes colour
AAcross 20:	Earth and lime mixture providing resin
AAcross 21:	Graceful and neat, oddly concealing limb
AAcross 23:	Novice competitor
AAcross 25:	Cook lining up initially one type of pasta
AAcross 26:	Publicity for Farah?
AAcross 27:	Self-centred response from Jill after fall	IMALLRIGHTJACK
DDown 1:	All the cops in new uniform? Wrong!
DDown 1:	All the cops in new uniform? Wrong!
DDown 2:	Outline for military service?
DDown 3:	Topless Italian has to tickle bottomless numskull
DDown 4:	First of the girls with simply tailored tunic
DDown 5:	Work in a supervisory role, like a bishop?
DDown 6:	It's terrible about half of lake having dried out
DDown 7:	Take choir trip to Jerusalem, say
DDown 10:	Brother who keeps mum	TRAPPISTMONK
DDown 14:	Medicare provision originally organised — it's now or never!	CARPEDIEM
DDown 16:	Deteriorates, as a user may	GOESTOPOT
DDown 18:	Isolated rock from Route 51
DDown 19:	Time for ironing?
DDown 22:	Backer on the Tube?
DDown 24:	Calls on head regularly for welcome