The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 5th September 2023

There are 15 across clues and 14 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 5th September 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	Don't attach much importance to power — give up
AAcross 8:	Don't attach much importance to power — give up
AAcross 9:	Troublesome place with an effigy?
AAcross 10:	I need source of metal, Al? Wrong!
AAcross 11:	Expert awfully nice about financial gain? The opposite
AAcross 12:	Backward boy, not about to become a chemist
AAcross 14:	Most primitive aristocrat that is a good man?
AAcross 15:	Stone tool in hotel ground
AAcross 17:	An eleven dismissed, not half worried
AAcross 20:	College gym by end of term in financial difficulties?
AAcross 22:	Explanatory figure lacking a couple of letters together
AAcross 23:	Being put out, goad union's dinosaurs
AAcross 24:	Well off, hiding nothing and gawping with awe
AAcross 25:	Think much of Paul?
AAcross 26:	School group getting a toy package
DDown 1:	Strangeness seen in a time where deceit is hidden
DDown 2:	See 24 across
DDown 3:	Clever move possible to get voucher?
DDown 4:	Like a deficient cellist maybe, carrying on regardless
DDown 5:	Versatile newspaper's feature — a relay race?
DDown 6:	Making fun of it, as they would be!
DDown 7:	Stops Shakespeare's Peter being heard?
DDown 13:	Hospital executive is such a gossip
DDown 16:	Excessively keen to start with, maiden maybe grabbed the reins	TOOKOVER
DDown 18:	Woman very old to get married? It's not admitted
DDown 19:	Rebels in 'shocking units' led by soldiers
DDown 21:	Little bird — one finally given tag
DDown 22:	Rubbish ex-PM, creating upset
DDown 24:	See 10