The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 31st August 2022

There are 15 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 31st August 2022. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Tip of tusk, just about trunk
AAcross 10:	Guardian's problem with Openreach
AAcross 11:	Perhaps retreat in blunder, losing knight and corps entirely
AAcross 12:	Moving record of old poet taking last of coterie cycling
AAcross 13:	Parts listed discovered for singer, perhaps
AAcross 15:	Careless manicure, losing one of digits
AAcross 17:	Salmon oil, a regular early protection for young vertebrates
AAcross 18:	Type of rock almost a joke
AAcross 20:	Reports of slate being quarried
AAcross 22:	Prickly character criticised nationalist answer on energy
AAcross 25:	Tastes juice, returning to drink coffee — not a tea, say
AAcross 26:	Cladding of marble: ideally, even, it could be gold
AAcross 27:	Hide rock, one that holds gold?
AAcross 30:	Terrible person makes noise about Conservative freedom with no rest
AAcross 31:	Society suffering, but they’re making record profits
DDown 1:	Stick of rock? Not one Boatman supports
DDown 2:	Running after light that may be seen through this rock
DDown 3:	Make a hole in second rock that may hold gold
DDown 4:	Pull together in Cuppers, otherwise one is sunk
DDown 5:	One swims in under rock
DDown 6:	Type of rock like lead?
DDown 7:	Having more weight applied to type of rock, say
DDown 8:	The Rock screens lead role
DDown 13:	It’s found in rock — after support it gets to grow
DDown 14:	Spooner's rocky nation, you might say, is independent
DDown 16:	Barrels of rock taken off vessel, leading to questions
DDown 19:	Nobody initially excited over faltering A-list marriage
DDown 21:	Heads learn it's unusual
DDown 23:	River Rock?
DDown 24:	Road’s ruined: bumps initially accumulate on the surface
DDown 26:	A salty thing, Boatman called 'saint with heart of stone'
DDown 28:	Carved from tufa stone, immoveable
DDown 29:	Rock from upper bits of tundra: igneous lava terrain