The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 31st March 2023

There are 14 across clues and 15 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 31st March 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Complicated kind of relationship the Oval Office finally sorted out	LOVEHATE
AAcross 9:	Nothing in striking description that's solid?
AAcross 10:	Fly, perhaps, one swallowed by nocturnal insectivore
AAcross 11:	10 in river shortened with stick
AAcross 12:	Show or conceal
AAcross 14:	Removing or securing piece of paper
AAcross 15:	My son, crazy about Big Apple either way? It means the same
AAcross 17:	This, of itself, is 15
AAcross 20:	The end of some extinct creatures shown in useful reference books
AAcross 22:	Provided with food taken back to consume — best or worst
AAcross 23:	Prone to be standing up to with determination	FACINGDOWN
AAcross 24:	Common complaint about antique
AAcross 25:	Slander American woman, European female intervening
AAcross 26:	One that's not part of 1, not so unusual
DDown 1:	Month and year in which to take on one kind of state
DDown 2:	Intensity of feeling produced by race
DDown 3:	Guinea inferior to former French colony? That's slander
DDown 4:	Something needed before formulating sentence, found in whatever dictionary
DDown 5:	Permit, or punitively deter, second name appearing in deed
DDown 6:	Following explosion initially in light on ceiling, not flammable or inflammable
DDown 7:	Get excited, start attack
DDown 7:	Get excited, start attack
DDown 13:	Self-absorbed — extra time in first half would make very little difference
DDown 16:	Between the two of us, locate no good new striplings	YOUNGMEN
DDown 18:	Regular but infrequent publications from unknown, first abridged
DDown 19:	One of 16, more or less, in island
DDown 21:	Rise and fall before noon? Hell, no
DDown 22:	Person who's active in so many directions? Just the opposite
DDown 24:	Fashionable, but not hot