The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 15th May 2012

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 15th May 2012. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 1:	Sort of party backed by great fictional character	GATSBY
AAcross 4:	Have no truck with tender? Endlessly one moves wagons
AAcross 9:	Criminal doesn't aim for prison	MAIDSTONE
AAcross 10:	Shop closing early before mass attack
AAcross 11:	Catcher in novel also first for Salinger
AAcross 12:	Oldest measure for horse — from its mouth?
AAcross 13:	Smarter rabbit comprehending one
AAcross 15:	Spread bad news about Turkey
AAcross 17:	Light fitment in the old days (after second century)
AAcross 19:	Nuts deserve to be cut off
AAcross 22:	Treaty or pact oddly ignored by state capital
AAcross 24:	True capital of Mayan kingdom
AAcross 26:	Delicacies half-cooked for Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar
AAcross 27:	Stand for show again?
AAcross 28:	Woman from the loony left? Not so!	MILDRED
AAcross 29:	Patient's beginning 7 — not finishing drugs before operation
DDown 1:	Plucky lyrist's first to join an Asian ensemble
DDown 2:	Kindling catches on
DDown 3:	European houses to New Englander
DDown 4:	Mountainous areas in the middle of Russia on the radio
DDown 5:	Trouble in college with group of students
DDown 6:	Hard worker going over green in which horse was present
DDown 7:	Correct bit of metal piping goes outside
DDown 8:	Box camera originally taken by volunteer
DDown 14:	Catch line that's knotted with a sort of hitch
DDown 16:	Boater, possibly, may be seen in Durham	RIVERWEAR
DDown 18:	Bore, extremely unpopular, stopping over
DDown 19:	Don't go to bed — sleepyhead exercises!
DDown 20:	Given inferior status, daughter displayed strong feelings
DDown 21:	Hoot about being taken in by swindle
DDown 23:	Marshal may be tall?
DDown 25:	Top group didn't fast before noon