The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Wednesday, 31st January 2024

There are 14 across clues and 17 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Wednesday, 31st January 2024. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	'Shock and awe' upset rogue dissenting group
AAcross 9:	Lightning power in Blitz
AAcross 10:	Viewed without subscription, just banking on film needing nothing	FREETOAIR
AAcross 11:	19 literature is both this and that, would you say? A shade
AAcross 12:	Devoted king stamps a deed
AAcross 13:	Beginning of rumblings in Mexico, the ground giving off heat
AAcross 15:	Old outlaw in Scottish town	OBAN
AAcross 18:	Immaculate as Swiss cheese, we hear?
AAcross 19:	As in Nordic novel?	SCANDINOIR
AAcross 22:	Acceptable to rip off book by Welshman, 19 writer	JONESBO
AAcross 24:	Line in red and white stripes originally without success
AAcross 25:	One has to fight criminal writing
AAcross 26:	Tale ultimately penned by Nordic boy just starting primary school?
AAcross 27:	Instil say suspicion at the outset in crime, as 19 writer	STIEGLARSSON
DDown 1:	Exeter evacuated, around which wind blows up – American streets emptier?	SUPERBOWL
DDown 2:	See 24	UNDERTHE
DDown 3:	Certainly endless energy directed upward turned the air blue
DDown 4:	From two continents, as Armenia possibly?	AMERASIAN
DDown 5:	8 of 19? Something not worth having, I should add
DDown 6:	Borders closed off in country of sultanate
DDown 7:	See 24
DDown 8:	Keep puffing, Puff?
DDown 8:	Keep puffing, Puff?
DDown 14:	Reported broken window of a clergyman
DDown 16:	Girl hugged by boy after relative recovered expenses	BROKEEVEN
DDown 17:	Olympian gold finally given to noisy crude American
DDown 18:	'Hello sailor' appropriate?
DDown 20:	Insurrection is curbed by cartel
DDown 21:	Lover's wife, Greek character important, by the sound of it?
DDown 23:	Group: into eighteen one twice goes!
DDown 24:	Now forgotten, true maverick comes into range with 19