The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Friday, 22nd September 2023

There are 16 across clues and 18 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Friday, 22nd September 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 9:	Author, I applaud your observation when 5?
AAcross 10:	Go abroad with Iberian native
AAcross 11:	Travel Lodge's opening in sweet marsh to the west
AAcross 11:	Travel Lodge's opening in sweet marsh to the west
AAcross 12:	Animal they see, Noah seeing every second
AAcross 13:	See 19	THEWIND
AAcross 15:	Work out when filling gone — empty?
AAcross 17:	Club's last, equally true voice
AAcross 18:	Horse and badger
AAcross 20:	Nuts off the menu for Rover?
AAcross 22:	Rusty old, old nails very, very strong, marines concluding	OFFFORM
AAcross 25:	Fibre ultimately absent, lady keen to knit without threads
AAcross 26:	Cut costs, bound to save money, initially
AAcross 27:	What dog might wish to do to be lifted?	GOWALKIES
AAcross 30:	Careless line failing to impress good man
AAcross 31:	One, two, three and four back in house
DDown 1:	Drink first of sherries, something going to one's head
DDown 2:	Underwear stocks, say?
DDown 3:	Dogs, say, misleading guards
DDown 4:	Shrew lifting bottom, tricky when tail removed earlier
DDown 5:	Tiddly brief
DDown 6:	Politician: his being slightly inadequate, hole up when in jeopardy	RISHISUNAK
DDown 7:	Fourth, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth letters, all going to the third, reportedly?
DDown 8:	Name associated with Facebook article, police onto that
DDown 13:	Nice one: shocker verboten
DDown 14:	Similar doctor arrested by dodgy Irish cop
DDown 16:	Minute completed and day ends
DDown 19:	Like Dorothy's house in 1939 film?	GONEWITH
DDown 21:	Part of football pitch where energy's located?
DDown 23:	Farm egg I tend to put out in kitchen drawer?
DDown 24:	See 23
DDown 26:	See 28
DDown 28:	Noughts: zero no good as a particular number
DDown 29:	Animal impression