The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Thursday, 29th December 2022

There are 14 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Thursday, 29th December 2022. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Athlete once trying to smuggle chocolate bars?
AAcross 8:	Black horses, first of three having escaped
AAcross 9:	Second course that was designed for the better
AAcross 11:	Recollection of horse eating pork — is that witty?
AAcross 12:	See 25
AAcross 13:	’ouse introducing marginally better card game
AAcross 15:	Some fumes enter all old parts of the gut
AAcross 17:	In the morning, harassment of editors gradually paid off
AAcross 20:	Spiel, dark stuff
AAcross 21:	Typically English establishment, Australian native inside?
AAcross 23:	Paul in debt, probably asking for a stroke?
AAcross 25:	Where everyone was rightly under suspicion, hellish working for a Chinese newspaper?	MURDERON
AAcross 26:	Landowner seen, hide daughter
AAcross 27:	Letter opener that is removed from armoire, admired as quirky	DEARSIRORMADAM
DDown 1:	Trump in love underneath post-graduate
DDown 2:	Scholar delivering sermon, endless gossip
DDown 3:	See 25	THEORIENT
DDown 4:	Best knitted top, one buttoned up
DDown 5:	Fraudulent schemes in a game
DDown 6:	Don overturned tennis umpire's call	NOTUP
DDown 7:	Dropping old stick, heel on loafer's broken it
DDown 10:	Massive feat of engineering seen by a bird soaring over Barking from the south
DDown 14:	See red garment worn by orphan, one abandoned
DDown 16:	Scary girl or stinker almost flipped, of course	NOPROBLEM
DDown 18:	Owner of sword I plant while not going down
DDown 19:	Microphone initially grasped by idle singer?
DDown 22:	Rank skirt, but not top
DDown 24:	With climbers furious, short of peak, expedition leader dug in