The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 2nd September 2022

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 2nd September 2022. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Support team that's behind
AAcross 5:	Cut to protect small firm's capital
AAcross 9:	Top grub's served up about one here	GASTROPUB
AAcross 11:	Hang back in bar after time
AAcross 12:	Man on train's an old friend
AAcross 15:	Knock down mother reversing out of control
AAcross 16:	How a user gets sorted by drugs stores
AAcross 18:	Dodgy girlfriend's revealing tits, perhaps
AAcross 19:	Butcher's tip to get ace kind of fillet
AAcross 21:	Did do rumba, in the middle Anton Du Beke messed up
AAcross 24:	Line over river blocked by points failure
AAcross 25:	Martial artist's naive punch
AAcross 26:	American market having number joining queue initially outside supermarket
AAcross 27:	They might give notes for performers in underwear	GSTRINGS
DDown 1:	Toilets: you must replace old taps
DDown 2:	Performers twisting end of musical
DDown 3:	Trim bush
DDown 4:	One might pass through customs in Germany chewing a Big Mac with pilot	DIPLOMATICBAG
DDown 6:	Doing it at work?
DDown 7:	Dance on screen? Tense performing dance
DDown 8:	One sympathises with Wills; he falls out with his grandmother
DDown 10:	Performers changing can't be arsed going over lines	BALLETDANCERS
DDown 13:	Fit couple on outskirts of Melbourne, mostly stretched out being in Australia
DDown 14:	Places to meet and study before classes
DDown 17:	Panic as hairstyle has length cut off
DDown 20:	Note from singer on the radio
DDown 22:	Highly developed knowledge about English
DDown 23:	Lift firm books onto one shelf at the top