The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 22nd October 2021

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 22nd October 2021. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Guy in Love Island is a horny bounder
AAcross 4:	Public figure giving hint
AAcross 8:	Stage direction stops working in theatre play	THEENTERTAINER
AAcross 10:	Pro card player's inspired about project
AAcross 11:	Happened by chance to ring, interrupted by heavy metal
AAcross 12:	Pastry crust of canapé, something consumed in bits
AAcross 15:	Traditional motifs in piece of music caught by solver in France
AAcross 17:	Comparative magnitude of bits east of desert
AAcross 18:	Less wild path for conquering warrior
AAcross 19:	Hollow area poor driver ends up in — he leaves it
AAcross 21:	Summons a vehicle back across open ground
AAcross 24:	Poet, reading the Iliad, mostly stunned
AAcross 25:	Imported copper: high grade, half mended
AAcross 26:	Deity in religious books with pale covering
DDown 1:	Like a pub where all the hard liquor's been drunk down	OUTOFSPIRITS
DDown 2:	Where birds are devouring corn seriously
DDown 3:	Barring Connery's lead, classic version of Bond
DDown 4:	Tardily, woke Liberal goes on record, boring new voters
DDown 5:	Fare pocketed in voyage at sea
DDown 6:	Abridge Old Testament book, suppressing hard term
DDown 7:	Subtle, absorbing end of tale one's related
DDown 9:	Feature of Love's Labour's Lost nothing but repetition
DDown 13:	Rich man from South Africa confined, having been given a stretch?
DDown 14:	English following type of stock car
DDown 16:	Post mountain-climbing setter in building
DDown 20:	Amerindian's poetic apostrophe to a wise man
DDown 22:	It's said to dismiss Poland's No 1 playmaker
DDown 23:	Rolls topped with unwrapped spam or fish