The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Monday, 27th February 2023

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Monday, 27th February 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Get down from there and stop pulling my leg	COMEOFFIT
AAcross 6:	Farm animal to lower head in river bend
AAcross 9:	Gore beginning to drop into tube
AAcross 10:	Vigour I am contributing to a country
AAcross 11:	Detect person's elastic slipping, a source of optimistic views
AAcross 12:	Sounds from cat in fashionable street
AAcross 14:	Numbers of species left common
AAcross 15:	Grouse distractedly about Conservative whip
AAcross 17:	An improved partner in crime?
AAcross 19:	Not yet in bed, drunk and unable to relax
AAcross 20:	The besetting sin of the Greens?
AAcross 22:	See 11
AAcross 25:	Exhausting journey to get computer equipment
AAcross 26:	Name of songbird, extremely large
AAcross 27:	Being tense, ramble about buried valuables
AAcross 28:	Big rodent on the loose in Kentish Town	TONBRIDGE
DDown 1:	Substitute fielder?
DDown 2:	Crazy set of directions were rational	MADESENSE
DDown 3:	Demolish old book, well read
DDown 4:	Evasive talk from the cloth
DDown 5:	Tours round church build muscle
DDown 6:	Only women in emirate?
DDown 7:	Wait around altar finally for her?
DDown 8:	Dishevelled, after a series of blows
DDown 13:	Swindle over farm machinery one is engaged to supply
DDown 14:	Fruit cooked? It used to be fired
DDown 16:	Great duel contested under formal rules
DDown 18:	Salesman isn't commonly going to change decor
DDown 19:	Pawnbroker has a name like muck
DDown 21:	In Spanish port, a Republican sign
DDown 23:	Part of play understood when listening
DDown 24:	Slacking, paid less — only half